Brooke Bert

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Boy Mom, Dog Mom, Wife, Artist, Actor, Director, Educator, Singer Samuel Beckett Enthusiast Movie lover Progressive Tottenham Hotspur American living in Normandie Jeanne La Pucelle amateur historian 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 NO DMs Please

Removing myself is my answer to anything that doesn't sit well with my spirit. No more over-explaining. No more second-guessing. No more staying in rooms where my energy is drained just to be "polite" If my spirit is unsettled, that is the sign. Peace isn't a luxury, it's a requirement.
A green wall in a cafe. In black letters it says « tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? » - Mary Oliver
The poem Cascando by Samuel Beckett: Cascando 1 why not merely the despaired of occasion of wordshed is it not better abort than be barren the hours after you are gone are so leaden they will always start dragging too soon the grapples clawing blindly the bed of want bringing up the bones the old loves sockets filled once with eyes like yours all always is it better too soon than never the black want splashing their faces saying again nine days never floated the loved nor nine months nor nine lives 2 saying again if you do not teach me I shall not learn saying again there is a last even of last times last times of begging last times of loving of knowing not knowing pretending a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be loved if I do not love you I shall not love the churn of stale words in the heart again love love love thud of the old plunger pestling the unalterable whey of words terrified again of not loving of loving and not you of being loved and not by you of knowing not knowing pretending pretending I and all the others that will love you if they love you. 3 unless they love you.
The cover of Deirdre Blair’s “Samuel Beckett: A Biography”the bottom half is cream colored with the title and author’s name. The top half is a gray scale photograph of Beckett in a turtleneck sweater
Green hill with lots of granite rocks and a tower sits on top. The sky is blue
A black and white playbill for an Irish language version of Rockaby by Beckett.
A stemmed gin and tonic glass with “Dingle Distillery” written on it. It sits on a dark coaster on a white table. People sit at tables in the background. It’s the bar at Dublin Airport
A white dog with a black nose, wearing a blue color, he is laying on a beige and white dog bed with a beige and white blanket. There is a wood floor underneath him and a white wooden cupboard behind him.
A round, white table with glass top and wooden legs, with a stack of books and a white candle in a blue candlestick on top of the books. A plant sits up left of books. Behind table is a cream sofa with a mix of blue, light blue, and white pillows and a beige blanket. A white terrier mix dog sleeps on the left corner of the couch. The wall behind him is bright blue with the golden edge of a framed painting.
The lid of a tub of PresidentButter. The ridge of the lid is brown and the interior is yellow. We see the President logo in red and gold. With the words doux nouveau. Pépites de chocolat written in Brown with. Pics of chocolate chips. It sits on a blue and white striped table cloth.
A white Jack Russel terrier mix lies in a wooden floor next to his beige dog bed full of blankets and toys. He wears a blue collar.
A white Jack Russel mix sleeps on a beige blanket on a brown leather chesterfield style chair with a pillow behind him. The pillow is white with embroidered flowers in reds yellows blues and greens
A long stone opening that ends in a small window in a medieval castle. It could be a hallway. Almost looks forced perspective. With stone, moss, and sunlight coming in at the end.
A snail with a dark brown shell sits on a bed of yellow leaves on top of gravel.
A white marble table top. A glass is filled with water next to an empty, green glass Perrier bottle and a white coffee cup with saucer and spoon. A brown sugar cube shaped as a croissant in a clear plastic package.
A statue of Joan of arc, she is dressed I. White armor with gold ⚜️ fleur de lis and she is holding a staff with her banner on it. It sits in a marble floor. The statue is missing its left hand. A brown bench sits to the right and flowers to its left.
A cartoon of two men dressed I. Early 17th century clothes m, sitting at a table in a pub. They both wear hats with feathers. One man says « I’m John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, good sir, and you are? » and the other man says « Buddy, you ain't gonna fuckin believe this »
A white dog with a blue collar and black bone shaped tag sits on a stones in front of an open front door. You can see the staircase inside the house, behind him.
A short video showing all the lily pads and water lilies in my lily pond. The sun is shining and you can see gold and black fish swimming under the flowers
A light pink rose in full bloom with green leaves and gravel underneath.
A lily pond with green lily pads and pink water lilies just opening for the day. In the background is grass, a stone wall trees, a small brick tower with a white door.
A pink water lily next to lily pads in a pool of water.
A white dog, a jack Russel/ Westie terrier mix, sleeps in bed on green linen sheets. He is half covered by a green comforter and he wears a blue collar and a bone shaped tag in black.
Greyish blue and white photo of a brick tower on rocks. With the title “Ulysses” James Joyce Words from the text are imposed on top of the photo.
An astronaut stands in the moon. Black space behind him. His arms are stretched out and his head is in his helmet and tuned to look up and the caption reads, “my nose itches”
A white terrier mix lies on his back with his head turned to the right. He is lying in green sheets next to a dark red pillow. W hand with a small over band in the middle finger rubs his belly. A bit of a mustard yellow sweatshirt is seen on the arm of the human.
Hot pink book cover, with the title « Night Crawling » in big dark gray letters and the author’s name in white, Leila Mottley
Snail on a green leaf on a bush.
Photo of a theatre ticket written in French. Says En Attendant Godot. Théâtre L’Atelier.
3 bright yellow buttercup flowers on a field of green leaves
Sign in red wood, a square, hanging on a wooden wall. The sign reads THREE WISE WOMEN WOULD HAVE ASKED DIRECTIONS ARRIVED ON TIME HELPED DELIVER THE BABY BROUGHT PRACTICAL GIFTS CLEANED THE STABLE MADE A CASSEROLE AND THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN PEACE ON EARTH
I white terrier mix sleeps on a queen sized bed with tan sheets
A woman stands in the bottom left corner. She has her brown hair in a ponytail and a white head band on. She wears sunglasses and a white and blue shirt. Behind her is a paved road and just on the other side of the road is a white gate and concrete steps up to a huge crucifix that is brown. Gray clouds in the sky.
I sallow or « hirondelle » en français, with a white breast and blue/grey feathers, sits in a black wire with a blue sky and wispy clouds behind him.
Gray and white clouds stretched across a blue sky with the ocean on the left and a cliff on the right. A few steps and railing can be seen on the right.
Blue sky with white clouds, the ocean and in the foreground cliffs and rocks.
A white terrier mix sits on a tan throw blanket on a brown leather couch with two blue and white floral pillows behind him. The wall behind the couch is blue
A picture of 3 horses in a field the white horse and light brown horse stand next to a blue watering trough and the dark brown horse stands a few feet away. They are behind a fence with a broken post and behind them are trees and some small buildings.
A snail with a brown and black shell and a grayish body looks at the camera as he crawls across off white pebbles next to a stick.
A middle aged lady I. Big brown glasses and an off white Irish wool sweater holds a white terrier mix on her lap. The dog has a colorful keffiyeh around him.
A young magnolia tree planted in the grass in a courtyard of gravel with a white iron gate and stone wall behind. The tree has several pink flowers budding