Five, Seven, Five
Haiku, well, an English version of Haiku, and other tiny poems are what I do when I missed my chance at a photo. Didn’t have the camera, couldn’t get to it fast enough, couldn’t get the right angle, lost the…
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Author Archive: Lou Nell Gerard
One Year and Four, Make That Five Months…
…since my last blog post. Longer than that since I’ve really written anything. It’s been a struggle. Writer’s block: Writer’s block may have several causes. Some are creative problems that originate within an author’s work itself. A writer may run out of inspiration,…
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Wings of Desire: A Film, A Poem, A Love Song to Humankind
From “Song of Childhood”Peter HandkeOriginal as used in the movie: Als das Kind Kind war,ging es mit hängenden Armen,wollte der Bach sei ein Fluß,der Fluß sei ein Strom,und diese Pfütze das Meer. Als das Kind Kind war,wußte es nicht, daß…
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Songs I Live With For Awhile
I love music of many genres and generations. My brain has a corner where a personal, internal DJ lives and provides a soundtrack for me. Sometimes it’s all over the map, sometimes I get repeats, for instance, often when bicycling…
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Five, Seven, and Five
Haiku, well, an English version of Haiku, and other tiny poems are what I do when I missed my chance at a photo. Didn’t have the camera, couldn’t get to it fast enough, couldn’t get the right angle, lost the…
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Word Sketches Riding King County Metro
When I was still working, before our move to Ashland, Oregon, I relied on King County Metro Transit to take me to work and bring me home again. Often I rode my bike down the hill to the Kirkland Transit…
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Life Without A Soundtrack
I can’t imagine life without a soundtrack. Be it our own internal DJ running playlists in our head, or our earbuds emitting favorite tracks to accompany our runs, a radio station in the car, Air Play throughout our house condo…
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“Red In Tooth and Claw”: Connections, Friendship, and Grief
How did I get from a 1996 episode of a British television series to an elegy by Alfred, Lord Tennyson for Arthur Henry Hallam, British poet (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833)? The connection? These five words: “red in…
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Birds, Words, Weeds, and Zen
Work on my Karesansui (Japanese Rock Garden, 枯山水) has resumed. I could list the reasons it was on hold for so long, but why? It seems counter to the whole idea of creating, tending, and enjoying such a garden. Karesansui…
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More Great Submarine Movies
While writing “Alaaarm!” “Dive! Dive! Dive!”, a recent post sharing some of my favorite submarine movies, the list continued to grow. Here are some more noteworthy submarine movies worth watching. British film Morning Departure (1950) directed by Roy Ward Baker,…
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