Wk. 22, Book #22: 10 Spiritual Powers

i love books.  always have. i love how they smell and feel, their different textures and sizes, the way they weigh in my hands and lap, and the foreplay of their pages against my fingertips.  i love the personality of their Titles  and  colorful covers and even solid-colored covers with no text—that’s so sexy.  and how their inner parts get  laid,  overlaid,  blocked, and   s     t      r     e     t     c     h    e     d   across the territory of a page for readers’ consumption.  the more delicious the content, the better.

I especially love making books. It’s a high form of meditation that centers me completely in the present, in that holy state of “no mind," as Eckhart Tolle calls it, where thoughts yield to pure creative impulses.  that’s where all the magic happens.  that’s where the art gets made.

it's Thursday and i have no idea what kind of book is being birthed this week, or what it will be about. however, by the week's end i am certain that i'll be in love all over again. 

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it turned out to be a little 3" x 3.75" redesigned book with mini chapters on 10 of the 12 spiritual powers--Faith, Love, Wisdom, Imagination, Understanding, Will, Order, Zeal, Renunciation and Life. the original book had a weird accordion fold that didn't quite work. so, created regular signatures, 40 pgs. total.  the previous book also had soft, cloth paper covers; i created hard covers for this design with a satin finish wall paper. 

what i like best about this little book is the visible spine, which i made with a strip of tyvek glued to end papers. the fun in making this book was working with the size, which took some finger dexterity and a lot of patience.