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

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

~ Carissa Cooper
If you're going through Hell,
don't stop!
~ a great song I can't remember (anyone know?)

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

~ St. Francis of Assisi
I loved Christmas
until I grew up and realized
I had to make it happen!
~ an exasperated customer at the Living Cornerstone bookstore

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

~ Henry Van Dyke

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

~ Abraham Lincoln
All shall be well
and all shall be well
and all manner of things shall be well.
~ Julian of Norwich

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

~ Oswald Chambers
The best translation of the word "love"
is the name Jesus;
That will tell us everything about love
we need to know.
~ Canon Tallis

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
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

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

~ Randy Alcorn in Tell Me About Heaven

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

~ Will Rogers
The first demand any work of art
makes upon us is surrender.
Look.  Listen.  Receive.
Get yourself out of the way.
~ C.S. Lewis
Poetry takes something
that we know already
and turns it into something new.
~ T.S. Eliot

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

When writing,
be more or less
specific

~ 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
Planting seeds
inevitably
changes my feelings
about rain.
~ Luci Shaw (from her poem "Forecast")
a children's book is
any book
a child will read.
~ Madeleine L'Engle

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

~ unknown
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
Creativity
is a way
of living
Life
~ Madeleine L'Engle

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

~ Dean Sherman/YWAM

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
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
Two classes of human beings defy
psychological categorizing
and are full of surprises:
Poets and Saints.
~ Sigmund Freud
The first of my books to deal with memory, this book is designed so that the viewer chooses where and when to jump in and start reading. The pages are approached in the same manner that we approach memory. It can be sequential, random, bits and pieces, or the whole picture at once. The book eventually opens out to reveal the whole sheet. Some images are only seen in the big picture, some images are only seen when you allow yourself to start opening out of sequence, and the text can be read in a linear fashion or as moments.

The book happened as a result of coming across pictures of me that I had never seen before. The text is a mix of my thoughts about this discovery, and how much our photographs become part of our memories. What happens when we find photos that are not attached to a memory?
Phrases of Memory

© 1988 Lisa Bowes LaLonde

Printed by Lisa LaLonde on a flat-bed proof press

All hand-assembled. One sheet cut and fold down into a book

Multiple edition: 40

Price: $55 (includes shipping)*







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