FOUR BOOKS OUT NOW
Words for the life
you are
actually living.
For the days of becoming. The questions without easy answers. And the ordinary moments that turn out to be everything.
A LIFE. STILL BECOMING.
FAITH · GRIEF · CREATIVITYAND THE SACRED ORDINARY
THE BOOKS · AVAILABLE NOW
Four ways to begin.
Choose the book that sounds like your life.
Read a little here. Take it with you on Amazon.
OUT NOW · Change & becoming
Between Arrivals and Departures
For the ones who have left, but not yet arrived.
Kindle links take you straight to each book. Find print editions on the book pages. Visit my Amazon author page
WHERE ARE YOU TODAY?
A book to meet you there.
You do not need to begin at the beginning.
Begin with the sentence that sounds like you.
I need words for prayer and grief. I am between two versions of my life. I want to hear the person beneath my roles. I look fine. I want to feel more present.
A PLACE TO BEGIN
Poems & Prayers
Poems and prayers gathered into four seasons of the soul. Small companions for grief, faith, fatherhood, and the ordinary work of staying tender in a hard world.
Meet the bookA PLACE TO BEGIN
Between Arrivals and Departures
A reflective companion for thresholds, endings, and the strange grace of being unfinished. Airports, gates and luggage become ways of asking what we carry, what we leave, and how we live in the middle.
Meet the bookA PLACE TO BEGIN
SOUL
Parent. Provider. Professional. Believer. Beneath the names, there is a life waiting to be heard. Seven slow chapters about returning to the person you can lose while keeping everything else together.
Meet the bookA PLACE TO BEGIN
The Five Questions
Five questions about devotion, habits, presence, avoidance, and legacy. A compass for men who are still showing up, but may be quietly disappearing inside the life they are trying to hold together.
Meet the bookA FIRST LOOK
From the next book
Rest Is Rebellion
Love was present.
Time kept getting
promised to it.
I loved my family while I was hurried. While I was distracted. While I was convincing myself that one more piece of work would finally make room for us.
The opening pages of a book about what we forgot to protect.
Read the excerptFROM THE JOURNAL
A little room
to think and feel.
Rest & attention · 3 MIN READ
Manuscript excerpt
The thing we forgot to protect
A human life needs more room than the things it produces.
Faith & grief · 6 MIN READ
Manuscript excerpt
For the ones who still whisper help
For the ones who still whisper help.
Creativity · 2 MIN READ
Manuscript excerpt
Before anything is produced
Something is present before anything is produced.
FROM THE WRITING DESK
There is more
taking shape.
Four new manuscripts. Rest, prayer,
creativity, and a way home to ourselves.
05Rest & attention
Rest Is Rebellion
A human life needs more room than the things it produces.
06Faith after certaintyPrayers for People Who Cannot Pray
For the ones who still whisper help.
07Creativity & attentionThe Wind Over the Water
Something is present before anything is produced.
08Men & belongingBeing Wild Isn’t Reckless
What is it like to be the man everyone can depend on?
A NOTE FROM ME
I write from the middle.
I’m Dean. A father, writer, and former minister living beside the sea in Gqeberha. My work grows out of faith, grief, creativity, and the slow work of becoming human again.
I’m interested in the life beneath the roles. The words we almost say. The beauty we miss when we are in a hurry.
A little more of my story