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?

Smile

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

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.