Caroline Gerardo's Blog, page 30

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Painted Blanket
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address
Multi colored or
blooms will be sunny
or cream
The bees cross pollinated
my flowers
you will find torch  yellow
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Waves Pound Haiku

Fingers hurt from work ~ thousand waves pound my muscles ~ rowing almost there.

It's Friday
I balance three employment activities
You do two things in this gig economy.
292 thousand new jobs added

Looking forward with joy to finishing
the construction work on the house and
downsizing.
Never never never use mastic to glue to drywall
Words of warning
We hung this beautiful blue cork board on son's wall
A mountain where he hung congratulations certificates,
blue ribbons, and photographs of teams and friends.
When he left for college the awards came down.

Misty ocean calls ~ lighthouse horn reminds from far ~ of the happy house.

2 haikus, thoughts and a video to make you smile
Caroline Gerardo
2016

Food Grows Where Water Flows

Food Grows Where Water Flows


Central California 2015
Rain fall catch us up
No interstate rail works
No system to retain water
Solutions can fill a cup

Home Made Gifts

I gathered organic herbs from my gardenRecipe ~Combine:Orange peel, ginger, rose petals, cinnamon, pinch of thyme,allspice and  rooibos and green tea.Fruits and roses are 1/8 portion, spices 1/16 Homemade and heavenly
The label is above.
If you didn't get your package in brown paper...whistle

Christmas letter

Dear
Must not have your correct address.
Last I wrote it returned to sender.

I'm taking the wallpaper down.
Endangered Lady Gouldians danced
on roses in kitchen and family room.
You hated on the toile.
Men saw it as grandmotherly.
The Realtor says it has to go.
Cried not when my fingers bled,
at snow white walls superior
to silly frills that made me happy.

It won't be my home anymore.
Owners mow heirloom climbers.
Petals look unruly, roll out sod.

We have a tiny tree
fuller than a Charlie Brown one,
popcorn strung, cranberries
and cuties with cloves in patterns.
Quite opposite my giant jeweled
Christmas tree of gold.


In the garden hangs popcorn balls
with peanut butter and thistle seeds.
Continue to care for the song birds.



Christmas wish to your happiness.
I miss you all.

My children grow stronger.
Teaching them to fly.
Academy of independence.
Keep your sense of direction.
Stay the course for joy.








Caroline Gerardo 2015 Christmas Poem

sylvia plath ted hughes interview 1961

Scion Wood For Heaven Novel

I wrote 69811 words towards a next novel in November. Nanowrimo doesn't produce fruit that is ripe, now I have to prune, graft and water.The book is unfinished. Next step - rough edit and outline review. Then line review.Then characters and scene events. And then the revision. Next share with beta readers.
It's about life after suicide. A bit of heaven in finding beauty in culled wood.I thought I lost these photographs and only had one image on my phone.Accidentally today I loaded this old memory chip - and there were some fabulous images of my youngest, our college tours of the northwest and theseCorot and Van Gogh images of Fallawater apple orchard being cut down.Cider made from this fruit was amazing.
Now the trunks become sweet aroma firewood. Branches are beautiful in wreaths,but the grafters waited too long. Did they flame up in a blaze where sparks touch heaven?Like my current work in progress a haunting image that is partof us - earth, fruit, life, death and joy.Sparkler in dead chill ~ winter scion clings to heartbeat ~ we connect in veins.
Taking submissions for title ideasThe Orchard EndCaville Blanc d'hiverWhite Winter WoodScion WoodScion Wood For Heaven
Also welcome your thoughts.All my heart to you.Thanks for reading Copyright 2015 images Caroline Gerardo

Stop A Bullet

Bullets for Allah roundAfter four tours says,"One hundred magazines on the black market."
Untrue
AK15 modified AK aboundNo license required, "Buy my Korean military Brutus."
Renew
Stop bullets reboundunwilling submission,"Offer education and a loyal wife."
View
Join the song surroundCall of ManKIND,"Understand, pray for and seek the enemy."
Grew
Caliph banner foundRocks smash heads,"Mecca Medina and Jerusalem are ours."

Blue
lockheed, boeing, bae, raytheon, eads, northrup, finmeccanica,"gun manufacturers don't create problems."
YouZealot takes your crown Seek solutions,"welcome refugees, secure their future."
Donot bend or deviate Stop the bullet before wound,"save youth before they recruit."



Poem for solutions.I don't know all the answers.What the CVE does against ISIS, IS is not working.Assassins Creed image licensed by Ubisoft as is often used for recruiting 
Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye should be uppermost (Shakir, "have the upper hand") for Allah is with you,"
12/6/2015 Copyright Caroline Gerardo

" لا تكن بالضجر و ضعاف القلوب ، والبكاء من أجل السلام ، عندما أيها ينبغي أن تكون الأولوية ( شاكر : " لديها اليد العليا " ) إن الله معك "

Beach Stones Pounding the Keyboard

I'm working hard. Writing the first draft of next novel at 5:00 AM and getting into office early.
Sharing a couple beach photographs from both my sister's house's
Different views one in Northern California and one Southern but
both have rocky shores. Below Capo Beach Road you can't see the
pebbles and rounded stones, but I have bruises on my legs from the
waves pounding them, this I'll save you from the purple images.
Same thing with typing each word on the keyboard... Are you doing
Nanowrimo?
All my best.
Hey check Audible in the next 9 days the mono version of reading
the Lucky Boy will be released

Nanowrimo Starts 1st Draft

Signed up for NaNoWriMo today. I wrote two drafts with this crazy method before.My theory being- type the words and get it done.

They ask for 50000 words but that’s not a novel – a draft should be 120000+ to slash and erase down to 90000. My target is 90000Right now my last book, The Eco Terrorist is in submission and I’ll give it the month.Was completing an audio version of two prior novels, but the recording is slow and it seems the best my vocals can do is two chapters a sitting. I want it to be live without much edit polishing to sound the same as when I do an actual reading. Those projects are going on a shelf.I work full time at a demanding job, and need to support my family all by myself. This is a risky proposition to put 1600 hours into a first draft of a story I’m not so sure about. The novel is about suicide or surviving near death by choice by someone I love dearly. Going to be written in first person and will surely be dark. I don’t believe the lady at the register of Chic fil a is reading my books (you know the sweet one who asks you if you will be fine dining with “us?”) Why do I find that smugness of sweet so offensive?  asked me recently again why someone with such a cheerful outward appearance has a penchant for thrillers and dark topics. IF you can come up with a light hearted come back please let me know.With this I tell you I won’t be as quick on line and probably all my fun on Pinterest will be put on hold. I still have the giant house to sell, so craft projects are only a messy daydream to be enjoyed by pinning ideas.  Please please leave me a comment send me a paper letter as I’m going to be up at 5:15 and working for 3 hours then closing mortgages all day and back home at 7:00 to get three more hours in for 30 days. I forget about Match.com, those videos for my mortgage banking job and painting daughter’s room by myself- Until December