Category Archives: George MacDonald
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
She Teaches Me to Be a Brave Man in the Dark, and I Look After Her Until She Can Bear the Heat of the Sun
8×10″ pen and chalk pastels on paper February 23, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s “Day Boy and Night Girl”: ‘If ever two people couldn’t do the one without the other, those two are Nycteris and I. … Continue reading
Her Confidence in One Who Failed so Unworthily, Shamed Me
8×10″ markers and pastel on paper January 31, 2013 Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Lilith: Her confidence in one who had failed so unworthily, shamed me. But neither had I initiated the movement, nor had I any … Continue reading