Guardians of Awesome will be the name of my publishing company, created so that I can independently publish the several books that I have been working on. See below some of my works in progress, and subscribe at the bottom to receive updates.

Open The Horizon

This is the beginning of a book about my adventures:

“Some people will tell you - You can’t do it. You don’t have what it takes to survive the wilderness. …Well, you just tell them - I am the wilderness.” -Brene Brown

Introduction - I don’t have any answers. Books proclaim things. How can I write a book with no answers? All I have are happenings. This happened. That happened. I survived and am alive, but I can’t tell you why. I’m sorry. I wanted it to be tidy for you. I wanted it to sing. To sing of freedom and of grace. To uplift and unchain. To destroy, and to desiccate. But all I have is that I’m alive. And that this is what happened.

The Subtle Smile: A Coffee Table Book

This is a series of zen ink improvisations in joy. Using a calligraphy brush I allow each smile to dance forth onto the page without thought or plan, eager to see what will come out. I will paint like this on page after page quite quickly, placing them to dry on every available surface until the entire room is filled with smiles and it is like standing in an ecstatic choir filling me with happiness. Once the smiles are dry, I gather them up into a stack and sit down at my desk to learn where they’re from. For though they are all done the same way with three curving brush strokes, no two are alike. I would wager no two smiles on the planet or in all of time have ever been the same, and it is just so with these. I spend a moment gazing at them one by one, listening for the brief poetic story of the smile to suggest itself, and then writing it down on the page. Once I had created a big enough collection, and with the encouragement of my customers, I decided to start making them into a coffee table book. The people enjoying them in the store where I worked had so much fun going through them, it seemed like a natural step. As I was assembling them all I unexpectedly found that some of them seemed to want to follow each other. Before long, and to my complete surprise, I was looking at an actual multifaceted conversation between two strangers in a coffee shop. One of them was doing all the talking, and the other was responding purely with the expression on their face. Lo and behold, they began talking about hope and about the possibility of world peace. One of them incredulous and skeptical and the other enthusiastic and excited and slightly embarrassed about it but unable to stop. Subscribe at the bottom of this page to be notified of its release.

The Character of Love

This book shares a series of what I call ‘picture stories,’ elegant poignant illustrated expressions of grace, love, and transformation. The picture story among them that it’s named for takes the Japanese and Chinese written character for ‘love’ and explores the similarity it has with the form of a human being. This person, love, is seen in different scenes demonstrating its generous and varied character.