for Wk. 39, i made a lovely little embellished leather bound photo book for my dear sista friend-pastor-Conscious Life Design Systems (CLDS) partner, Bernette Jones, and forgot to take a pic of the book. i included photos from our very first CLDS retreat back in April of 2000 with the instruction that she gets to fill the book with pics from retreats we are now rolling out across the country.
the same thing happened for Wk. 40. i gifted the amazing poet Naomi Shihab Nye with a new accordion-fold BARD and didn't think about taking a pic of the book until someone reminded me that i had missed a good photo opp. but i didn't give her the book for that purpose (something about that photo opp thing feels kinda icky to me). i just wanted to give her something in return for all she has given me through the power and presence of her words.
Wk. 41--a new BARD. by the way, people are buying these babies as quickly as i can make them. who knew???
Wk. 42--my friend and super therapist-life coach-Landmark Education leader Joshua Lee invited me a few weeks ago to co-facilitate a workshop for homeless women. i guided the women through the process of creating a book of their collective dreams based on the book The Dream Giver by Bruce Wilkinson. each week the women created individual pieces of their stories, or chapters, which i pulled together in an 11" x 17" collage. the signature folds down to @ 2 3/4" x 3"--to a pocket book.
i had to print the collage on 2 pages, front & back, and then fold it down. the women loved it.
Wk. 43. is an odd 5 1/2" x 3" book. it began with a green and gold floral piece of cloth that begged to be a cover and an accordion fold made from a scrap piece of poster board that's longer than i prefer for this type of book. after fiddling with the thing for several weeks, i got the idea to create stair step window pop outs offset by a big circle and single pop out window. the weird thing about this book is it resists writing, meaning, i feels like it's supposed to be blank, at least for now. perhaps it might like invisible ink.
Wk. 44 is another 4" x 3" book made from an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of paper with a split fold. it's actually a small music catalog book of song titles recommended by students who had to write a compare/contrast paper on socially conscious music of the 60s and the first decade of the 21st century. that was fun.
Wk. 45 is a joint journal i've initiated to be shared with @ 14 other people. each month a different person in this circle gets the journal to populate the pages with poetry, pics, etc. we'll see what we have after 14 months and if we will continue this process. however, i don't feel it's proper for me to share/show the journal here in this blog without participants' consent. so, you'll have to take my word again.
