Use what talents you possess:
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Experience is something you don't get
until just after you need it.

~ unknown
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe

Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?

~ Corrie Ten Boom
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

One good thing about being wrong
is the joy it brings to others.

~ unknown
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison

Even if you're on the right track
you'll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

"Maybe you've not yet tasted
your favorite food"
(regarding the feast prepared for us in heaven) 

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves,
for they shall never cease to be amused.

~ unknown
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

Start by doing what's necessary,
then what's possible,
and suddenly you are doing
the impossible.

~ St. Francis of Assisi
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle

My best friend is a person who
will give me a book
I have not read.

~ Abraham Lincoln

When God wants to show you what human nature is like separated from Himself, He shows it to you in yourself.

~ Oswald Chambers

Spiritual warfare
isn't just casting out demons;
it's Spirit-controlled thinking
and attitudes.

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
Beware of paying attention
or going back to what you once were,
when God wants you to be something
that you have never been.
~ Oswald Chambers

Hope means hoping
when things are hopeless,
or it is no virtue at all.
Faith means believing the incredible,
or it has no virtue at all.

~ G.K. Chesterton

Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

You will ask me where I get my ideas...I cannot tell you with certainty; they come unsummoned...in the silence of the nights, early in the morning... tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")

Don`t cry yet;
there`s still God!

~ Carissa Cooper
Do not have your concert first, and then
tune your instrument afterwards.
Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer,
and get first of all into harmony with Him.
~ Hudson Taylor
This book was the precursor to "In Transition", a sketch to see how the binding worked out. I ended up liking it as its own book, even though it has no inherent story line. But I could enjoy the accidental images on each page (a large page folded down and cut.) It may have been the first time I discovered the joy of taking a corner of a bigger picture and enjoying the texture and juxtaposition of pieces that suddenly became important. It was the beginning also of the love of the traditional photographic form of cyanotype. In that process, you coat art paper with a chemical and expose it in sunlight with your images on top, much like a photogram in a darkroom. Then you develop it in water and it is fixed when dry. It became one of my favorite way of sketching out ideas.

I can hear the leaves and feel the trains on these little pages. I love the feel of this book in my hands.
Leaves & Trains

© 1987 Lisa Bowes LaLonde

cyanotype and gum printing

sewn binding



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