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2013
The Light of a Single Candle
8×10″ pen, markers, and pastels on paper March 7, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from St. Francis of Asissi: “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
2013
Up the Hills Must Homeward Be
8×10″ pen and pastel on paper March 16, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s poem “The Hills”: “She was not born among the hills, Yet on each mountain face A something known her inward eye By inborn light can trace; For up the hills must homeward be, Though no one knows the […]
2013
To My Sisters, In Blood and Spirit
8×10″ pen and watercolor on paper February 3, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from the poem “To a Sister” by George MacDonald: A fresh young voice that sings to me So often many a simple thing, Should surely not unanswered be By all that I can sing…. A joyful voice though born so low […]
2013
A Three-Fold Cord is Not Easily Broken
8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper February 14, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Day Boy and Night Girl”: But at the same instant, through her blindness, she heard Photogen give a low exultant laugh, and the next felt herself caught up: she who all night long had tended and protected […]
2013
The Dawning Hope, the Shared Quest
8×10″ pen and pastels on paper March 3, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from the poem “The Hills” by George MacDonald: And in my wanderings I did meet Another searching too: The dawning hope, the shared quest Our thoughts together drew; Fearless she laid her hand in mine Because her heart was true.