Books
Bicycling Home, My Journey to Find God
By Virginia Mudd
This is a book about my spiritual journey, a story of mystery, adventure and love. My journey Home began when I was grappling with a food addiction. In my struggle I started to confront hard questions like, what makes me tick (and eat compulsively)? Who am I? What is the purpose of my being here on earth? Will I ever stop feeling that there is something missing in my life? My search to find answers also led to an agonizing longing for what I called God, even though I had no idea what or who I was looking for. In my search I traveled over 10,000 miles on my bike and countless inner miles of discovery and transformation till at last, after ten years, I found my heart's desire.
I hope wherever you are on your path that this story will be inspiring, informative, and enjoyable. I invite you to visit my website where you can read the first chapter, and where I share my continued journey with resources, reflections, wisdom sayings, photographs, and more.
Signed copy
242 pages, 30 photographs
Read Chapter 1 on my website
virginiamudd.com
This is a book about my spiritual journey, a story of mystery, adventure and love. My journey Home began when I was grappling with a food addiction. In my struggle I started to confront hard questions like, what makes me tick (and eat compulsively)? Who am I? What is the purpose of my being here on earth? Will I ever stop feeling that there is something missing in my life? My search to find answers also led to an agonizing longing for what I called God, even though I had no idea what or who I was looking for. In my search I traveled over 10,000 miles on my bike and countless inner miles of discovery and transformation till at last, after ten years, I found my heart's desire.
I hope wherever you are on your path that this story will be inspiring, informative, and enjoyable. I invite you to visit my website where you can read the first chapter, and where I share my continued journey with resources, reflections, wisdom sayings, photographs, and more.
Signed copy
242 pages, 30 photographs
Read Chapter 1 on my website
virginiamudd.com
Price: $28.95
Across America on the Yellow Brick Road
by Virginia Mudd
Imagine reading a "Cycling Companion Wanted" ad in a bicycling newsletter for a cross-America bike trip, answering it, and setting off two months later with a woman you just met for a 3,500-mile, 60-day journey from California to Washington, D.C. Taken from my journal this tells the story of two twenty-nine year old adventurers who fulfill a common dream. I recall exhilarating roads and landscapes, tedious miles, peaceful times, scary experiences, personal struggles, wonderful encounters with people, and the unfolding of a journey of a lifetime.
Signed copy
150 pages, 25 illustrations
virginiamudd.com
Imagine reading a "Cycling Companion Wanted" ad in a bicycling newsletter for a cross-America bike trip, answering it, and setting off two months later with a woman you just met for a 3,500-mile, 60-day journey from California to Washington, D.C. Taken from my journal this tells the story of two twenty-nine year old adventurers who fulfill a common dream. I recall exhilarating roads and landscapes, tedious miles, peaceful times, scary experiences, personal struggles, wonderful encounters with people, and the unfolding of a journey of a lifetime.
Signed copy
150 pages, 25 illustrations
virginiamudd.com
Price: $19.95
If You Seek a Heavenly Light
Poem by Thomas Merton
Offset Lithographic Illustration by Virginia Mudd
Thomas Merton has guided, instructed and inspired my most significant life journey: the spiritual quest. The image of ancient Stonehenge accompanying the text (reproduced from an original watercolor) contains the same power and spirit of Silence that Merton speaks of.
The poem is hand set in the Goudy Thirty typeface and printed by letterpress. The binding is a decorated paper over boards. The paper came from Thailand, where Thomas Merton died in 1968. (The text is linked at the bottom of this page.)
Eight pages including covers, 4 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches
Offset Lithographic Illustration by Virginia Mudd
Thomas Merton has guided, instructed and inspired my most significant life journey: the spiritual quest. The image of ancient Stonehenge accompanying the text (reproduced from an original watercolor) contains the same power and spirit of Silence that Merton speaks of.
The poem is hand set in the Goudy Thirty typeface and printed by letterpress. The binding is a decorated paper over boards. The paper came from Thailand, where Thomas Merton died in 1968. (The text is linked at the bottom of this page.)
Eight pages including covers, 4 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches
Price: $15.00
Desert Songs
Poems by Virginia Mudd & Clifford Burke
Monoprints by Virginia Mudd
This work is dedicated to the Galisteo Basin of Northern New Mexico, where we lived for many years. It is a tribute, in image and word, to the endangered life treasures of silence, solitude and wilderness. This accordion fold book was handset in Bell types and printed by letterpress. The monoprint image of the Ortiz Mountains was printed from hand-inked blocks, requiring four passes through the press. Each one is different; most skies are shades of blue, like the banner at the top of this page. The binding is made up of boards covered with Mexican bark paper.
Eight pages, including covers, 4 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Monoprints by Virginia Mudd
This work is dedicated to the Galisteo Basin of Northern New Mexico, where we lived for many years. It is a tribute, in image and word, to the endangered life treasures of silence, solitude and wilderness. This accordion fold book was handset in Bell types and printed by letterpress. The monoprint image of the Ortiz Mountains was printed from hand-inked blocks, requiring four passes through the press. Each one is different; most skies are shades of blue, like the banner at the top of this page. The binding is made up of boards covered with Mexican bark paper.
Eight pages, including covers, 4 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Price: $35.00
Skull Drawings & Bone Songs
Drawings by Ruth Fine,
with poems in response by Clifford Burke
In 1990 Ruth Fine sent me a collection of drawings of animal skulls, and asked me to write poems to go with them. The book is printed by laser on tree-free paper made from Kenaf, an African plant being grown in the Southwest, and bound by hand in handprinted letterpress wrappers.
48 pages, 7 x 8 1/2 inches, handbound
with poems in response by Clifford Burke
In 1990 Ruth Fine sent me a collection of drawings of animal skulls, and asked me to write poems to go with them. The book is printed by laser on tree-free paper made from Kenaf, an African plant being grown in the Southwest, and bound by hand in handprinted letterpress wrappers.
48 pages, 7 x 8 1/2 inches, handbound
Price: $15.00
The Canticle of the Sun
This second edition of The Canticle is handset in American Uncial type, printed letterpress on Rives paper. It is bound in handmade paste paper over boards. The images are digital reproductions of original gouache paintings. The translation is by Stephen Mitchell. A favorite text praising our Earth.
Price: $50.00
The Remarkable Admiral Byrd
Story and Photographs by Virginia Mudd
In the summer of 2003 we were graced by the lives of nesting and hatching phoebes on a log beam just outside our front door. The phoebe chicks were an ongoing delight to us as they grew up and ultimately graduated from Flight School. This is the story of one of those Phoebe Chicks, who showed us what true courage and determination to live is all about. He is truly one remarkable bird.
16 pages, including 4 pages of photographs printed with an indigo digital printer. The text is printed on an Epson 2200 inkjet printer, 5 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
In the summer of 2003 we were graced by the lives of nesting and hatching phoebes on a log beam just outside our front door. The phoebe chicks were an ongoing delight to us as they grew up and ultimately graduated from Flight School. This is the story of one of those Phoebe Chicks, who showed us what true courage and determination to live is all about. He is truly one remarkable bird.
16 pages, including 4 pages of photographs printed with an indigo digital printer. The text is printed on an Epson 2200 inkjet printer, 5 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
Price: $12.00