Our family discovered George MacDonald about seven years ago in our small Tennessee town’s library, actually on the library discard shelf where you can purchase the library’s “retired” books for a quarter…
He Has Begun a Story: a passage from Phantastes set to music
Fire and Rose
Blues for Lilith, by Bill Canonico
The Princess's Song from The Princess and Curdie, Set to Music
I stumbled upon George MacDonald when my husband and I were getting into creative writings and story-telling books. I read The Princess and the Goblin and then the sequel, The Princess and Curdie. What I love about these stories is the wisdom of not judging others by their outward appearance, but seeking to discover their true selves and their stories, finding their purity of heart and intention.
Ron Block: Music Inspired by Phantastes
Three Songs Inspired by Lilith and Phantastes
The Wise Woman
The Light Princess: A New Graphic Novel Edition
Lilith - A Tribute to George MacDonald's Classic Novel
Lilith was the first MacDonald book I ever read, and has remained my favorite. Mr. Vane's eerie experiences in The Evil Wood, the mystery of Mara, and the affluent yet drab and oppressive existence of the people of Bulika, all of these ideas have always intrigued me. Over the next few years I would revisit the book and find something new, and that eventually became this tribute album.
BAPTISM OF THE IMAGINATION
Phantastes: The Album
Diary of an Old Soul: The True
Poems in Prose
George MacDonald opened my eyes to Christian mysticism, to the reality of the presence of God in the things he has made. Through his writings, and those of other great mystics and thinkers, I learned and am learning to see more deeply into the world around me, to look with spiritual eyes on what seems everyday and insignificant. The deeper I go into this way of seeing, the more I perceive the hand of God in in the natural world...
The Day Boy and The Night Girl: The Musical
Inspired by Consider the Ravens
Jolyn Canty's watercolor below was inspired by reading George MacDonald's poem, Consider the Ravens, and listening to Mary Lichlyter's musical setting.
Inspired by the Unspoken Sermon, The Higher Faith
This watercolor by Jolyn Canty was inspired by her reading of the January 24th entry in Consuming Fire.
Consider the Ravens
Lord, according to thy words,
I have considered thy birds;
And I find their life good,
And better the better understood:
Sowing neither corn nor wheat
They have all that they can eat;
Reaping no more than they sow
They have more than they could stow;
Having neither barn nor store,
Hungry again, they eat more...