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You Know A Man Who Carries
More Than He’s Ever Told You

What happens when there’s no longer a circle strong enough to help carry what life asks of him?

This Book Will Change the Way You See
The Men in Your Life

Step Into the Circle Live online workshop for women October 8 + November 5

Before He Was the Man You Know
He Was a Boy Learning
What He Would Have to Carry Alone

He Carried It Into His Body
Into His Work
Into His Anger
Into the Ways He Tried to Love

What He Carried
Became Part of the Lives
Of the People Who Loved Him

Bones of My Brother, standing.

If there is a man you love, these stories will change the way you see him.

If you are that man, they will change the way you see yourself.

If you have ever wondered why a father grew quiet, why a husband could not explain, why a son pulled away, this book is for you.

This book is for men. And for the women who have spent years trying to understand the men they love.

A Man May Be Changed
By What He Has Carried

But What Remains
Still Matters

And Then
There Was an Eagle

This Work Cannot Be Read Just Once
It Must Be Taken Within
Pondered
Absorbed James R. Whitton
Lt Col, USAF, MSC, Ret.

What Belonged to One
Belonged to the Circle
Some Things
Must Be Carried
By More Than One Man

Buy One for Yourself
Give One to a Man You Love

One Book · One Man Seen

Reverend Dawn Helton-Anishinaabeqwa.
  • Witness
  • Threshold
  • Becoming

Reverend Dawn Helton-Anishinaabeqwa

Author, ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, and enrolled citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.

She writes from a lifetime of ministry, family history, and cultural witness. For decades she has sat with people in kitchens, hospitals, church basements, parking lots, work sites, and quiet conversations after everyone else had gone home.

Listening for what was spoken.
Listening for what almost surfaced.
Listening for what was carried without words.

She studied in the Native American Program at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, where she received her Master of Divinity. Bones of My Brother grew from those encounters, and from a belief that no one was ever meant to carry life alone.

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