Caroline Gerardo's Blog, page 39

Cactus Inspiration

Cactus in Glass Bubble

Our lives become closed in a shell.

Do you long to hear the song of waves inside the shell,

or prefer the comfort of a rain umbrella, a cozy you understand the corners in the dark?

Push beyond the smooth pathway, stand on burning rocks and listen to your heart.





Succulent Scape

Feels like the great eclipse and the diamond glass cutter may shatter?

Embrace the change with a joyful center, though your inner ear balance left you.

Walk on a tightrope of gossamer, for God's sake keep your chin up above fiberglass nets.

I kneel at your courage to rise from punching one more time, your lips part, smiling.





Glass Ornament for dry landscape

The desert only gets too much rain one day or smoke and fire.

It is the days in-between when you hike and work and go longer than ever before.

The word count, the chin ups, the hands shred to exposed muscle.

Then know you have done every inch of great.





Mini moonscape



Caroline Gerardo Copyright 2012

To make these ornament bubbles all you need is

 a couple tablespoons sand for the bottom, pebbles,

small succulents and water once a week.

Love Ready Haiku

Roots of Past

" Mon coeur ne vous quitta jamais une seconde,



et je suis, et serai jusque dans l'autre monde,



celui qui vous aima, sans mesure..."
















Haiku for broken ~  

heal a heart with time and joy~  

laugh at soggy past.








Window Panes Repaired and Painted,  and Ready for Sunshine



Cyrano wears a ~  plastic nose hidden behind ~ clog heart abs of steel.



Tree Stripped of Center by Fire Survives and Grows



Look sideways upon ~

his dressing gown rippling waves ~

river wash the sand.





Horsehoes For Good Luck In Your New Life



Chanting pants on fire ~ for he is a crafty liar ~ heat forgives the fail.



Walk Bravely For You Made it Over the Burning Coals, You ARE READY.



All photographs and text are copyrighted material by Caroline Gerardo

Build A Creative House

Colombian artist Miler Lagos’s Contemporary art
installation titled “HOME.” This installation is a self-supporting book igloo
using nothing more than carefully aligned books, no glue. This art was on
display at Magnan Metz Gallery in New York City 2011. The book house is a
symbol of possibilities and dreams made real.



Everything is possible. Build your house with plans,
constant work and passion.



You have a unique purpose on this earth. People will tell
you to give up and take classes in something practical, I say you need to have
a job that sustains the heat and food but spend your forty hours a week on your
craft.



What are you working on?

New clients

The message sounded positive the first time I read it on a subject of an unknown person's mail. How many of these emails are you receiving? My email flow daily is about 200- 300 in one of my accounts and this particular pitch has increased to about 30+ per day. If there a way to block incoming messages by the subject?




Am I just being over sensitive in the digital world? My days seem to race past in a blur. I manage and treasure my time for writing, job and family.

Smile

Sunflowers in my yard keep the bees working all day. Don't let setbacks take over.

The Lucky Boy at VROMANS -PRIZES

Caroline Gerardo Author of The Lucky Boy,

will appear at Vroman’s Bookstore,

695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena,

 on Sunday, June 24th at 4 PM.



Gerardo will be reading and signing her book

for Local Authors Day.

To celebrate Caroline is offering prizes.

The event is free and open to the public.



 https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Lucky-Boy/249273628455524





   







1st PRIZE:  New Apple iPad 2 32gb Wifi 720p HD Tablet PC Black Color - iPad 2nd Generation

2nd PRIZE $25.00 Gift Certificate to Vroman’sThis contest is open to residents of USA and Canada.



Contest begins on Sunday, June 24th, 2012 at 12:00pm ET , and closes on Saturday, July  28, 2012 at 11:59pm. Vromans and Caroline Gerardo are not responsible for entries that are lost or misdirected. The winner will be randomly selected and announced on Sunday July 29th, 2012 and will be notified by email as well as by online posting to this site.

http://carolinegerardo.blogspot.com/









 and The Lucky Boy Facebook Page and Twitter Caroline Gerardo’s  @cgbarbeau handle account. If we do not receive a response to your email within 7 days, a new winner will be chosen.

How to Enter: During the Contest Period, complete the registration form in full following all online instructions. To win contestants must remain on the contest mailing list, “Like” the contest Facebook page, or provide proof of purchase of The Lucky Boy on or before 11:59 PM July 28th, 2012. Proof of purchase described as follows: copy of receipt and entry form below; or pdf. copy; image of receipt to Caroline Gerardo either on The Lucky Boy Facebook page, or follow and supply to @cgbarbeau twitter account, or here in the comments below.By entering this contest, participants agree to be bound by these Contest rules and the decisions of Caroline Gerardo. All entries become the property of Caroline Gerardo, the Contest Sponsor.You may enter the Contest as often as you like by multiple purchases. Entrants may use only one Facebook account or e-mail address to enter. Entries made using multiple social media accounts, email addresses generated by script, macro, robotic, programmed, or any other automated means are prohibited and will be disqualified.The winners whose names are drawn will be emailed by as soon as reasonably possible after the contest closes to the email you provide.



Entrants are required to “Like” the The Lucky Boy Facebook page:   THE LUCKY BOY NEW FACEBOOK



or copy and paste this into your browser:



https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Lucky-Boy/249273628455524  







or provide proof of purchase of the book to be eligible to win.  Purchase is not necessary to enter the contest. 

   The odds of winning the contest depend on the number of entries received. 



   Prize must be accepted as awarded. The approximate retail value of the prize is $527/ and $25. US. Caroline Gerardo and Vroman’s will not be responsible for telephone, technical, network, online, electronic, computer hardware or software failures of any kind, misdirected, stolen, incomplete, garbled or delayed Internet/e-mail computer transmissions on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this contest.

Vromans is not a sponsor or an administrator of this contest.  The winner will be posted on The Lucky Boy Facebook Web site at the end of the contest period.

Entering the contest constitutes consent to the use of the winner’s information as submitted to: http://www.carolinegerardo.blogspot.com/ All publicity and promotional purposes on behalf of Caroline Gerardo no compensation or further permission to winner will be offered (except where prohibited by law).All work (including but not limited to data, words, photographs, text, images, audio, video, trade-marks, service marks, trade names and other information) (collectively, the “Content”) contained in this Website are owned by Caroline Gerardo.   Copyright © Caroline Gerardo 2012







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Forsythia

“Do not weep any more, I give you forsythia to bring your
spirits high, ringing from the Queen’s garden.”





Caroline Gerardo





© copyright 2012

Haunted House

Hiking we found this haunted house. It is out in the woods.
The property never had running water or electricity. The wife left thousands of
personal items some years ago after the murders. They wait like artifacts
praying for salvation. She left a note about some bear-ring-man who took her
husband. The letter did not make a great deal of sense, but it mentions three
times: do not sit in the swing,.



Notice the swing, it rocks and spins without anyone sitting
in it. Do you think he was watching?

Roll that crane up to the sky

Merrily run your crane to the stormy sky.

What is the matter with these negative writers?

If you don't know how to use

Typek it, Font deck, Gimp, Instagram, and more...

start cranking your brain up for new skills.




Interview about the tools you need to be a writer.




I operated a Lattice Boom Truck Crane

before there  was a license required.




Interview link:  http://ow.ly/blSCB




Read Patrick Barkham's post about indie writers,

more important- read the rather snooty comments.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/06/become-an-ebook-superstar?newsfeed=true


"These people sound like they might have rather more successful careers as marketing strategists than writers of decent fiction.

Increasingly, there's no difference. That's what's depressing." mean guy with no profile



" nowadays there are two types of novelists those who write something interesting and those who write something well and never the twain shall meet." another guy with no profile, it is always easy to sound superior behind an alias online, add a little accent and you are better...



"I will never bother reading an indie book, they are all garbage..." this one I believe got deleted because it went off on a rant.



Everyone loves a rant on the internet. Perhaps someone will go purchase the newspaper Guardian now?














Those who don't learn and grow, are left behind.

Even traditional published writers need skills because the economy is tight. How many editors were laid off from magazines and publishers this month?






O.K. they aren't lattice ... cranes but you get the point.

Venus Transit Did you Catch Her?

Quick.

Venus Transit

with my iphone sigh.

There is a swallow in one.

Halos from the brightest planet.

She won't return in our lifetimes

to pass in front of the sun.

It is not an eclipse, just a

passing whim.

Sharing.