Indirectly related to the 1800s Native American ledger book tradition, Brian D. Tripp’s prayer songbooks done in conventional grammar school composition notebooks form an important part of his traditional and contemporary cultural and arts practice. At any moment Brian has dozens of songbooks in process consisting of poems, lyrics, and illustrations in numerous media. The songbooks are both real-time iterations of poetic prayer and incantation, as well as work books for story-telling.