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Monthly Archive: December 2013
Lou Nell Gerard
December 28, 2013
(OK, I exaggerate, but I can’t help myself…) When Klee and I took the MSF course they were teaching SIPDE: Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute; and look where you want to go. Both of these not only improved my riding…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 19, 2013
What’s the connection? Smaug in The Desolation of Smaug put me in mind of Ray Harryhausen, master of special effects who died earlier this year. Apparently the thirteen year old Harryhausen saw the 1933 King Kong, with stop-motion animation courtesy…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 18, 2013
There is something about Peter Jackson’s vision of Tolkien’s world that works really well for me. I think we all develop strong visuals of the books we read, especially such richly penned works like The Hobbit and The Lord of…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 14, 2013
Être et avoir, (To Be and to Have), 2002, directed by Nicolas Philibert. French with English subtitles. This award-winning documentary captures a year at a rural one-room school in France with a dozen students ranging in age from 4 to…
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