Remember that
the darkest hour
only lasts 60 minutes

~ on the girls' bathroom wall/Gordon College

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
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore
When you have exhausted all the possibilities,
remember this -
you haven't.
~ Thomas Edison
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

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

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven

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
It is the nature of grace
always
to fill spaces
that have been empty.
~ Goethe

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

~ St. Francis of Assisi

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

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM
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

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ unknown
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
Doubt comes from a struggling mind.
Unbelief comes from a struggling will.
~ Chuck Missler
I would like to
paint the way a bird sings.
~ Claude Monet

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

~ Henry Van Dyke

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

~ Oswald Chambers
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

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

~ unknown

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

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

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

~ unknown

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

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

~ Will Rogers

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

~ Carissa Cooper
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle
This is one of my favorite LITTLE books. I crated it one summer during a one-week workshop. The rest of the class was delighted with my final product and encouraged me to make "enough to fill a wall." I had spent enough hours bent meticulously over this little design and declined to design the sequel. But there is something about a little book. It demands intimacy.

This is a poem-book, and I was becoming more comfortable designing my poems to fit the format of an Artist's Book, not just fitting words into a sculptural format. The words flow as easily as the images, and you have to hunt to follow them, but they reward you in the end. Both poem and images describe the frustration of memory that's incomplete or in irretreiveble fragments. You can never quite put the rest of the photographic images together (although they are there) And the words come out slowly, one per page, or a phrase that tries to connect somewhere else.

We are left usually holding one page open trying to remember where it came from and where we thought we were going with it.
Memory Wave

© 1989 Lisa Bowes LaLonde

cyanotype and ink

glue and book binding cloth



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This is a One-of-a-Kind book in the artist's collection.

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