Books by Dale Harris

Books by Dale Harris
A Feast of Epiphanies

Though I Walk, A Novel

Daytime Moons and Other Celestial Anomalies, a book of poems

Second Wind

Second Wind
An album of songs both old and new. Recorded in 2021, a year of major transition for me, these songs explore the many vicissitudes of the spiritual life,. It's about the mountaintop moments and the Holy Saturday sunrises, the doors He opens that no one can close, and those doors He's closed that will never open again. You can click the image above to give it a listen.

The Song Became a Child

The Song Became a Child
A collection of Christmas songs I wrote and recorded during the early days of the pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2020. Click the image to listen.

There's a Trick of the Light I'm Learning to Do

There's a Trick of the Light I'm Learning to Do
This is a collection of songs I wrote and recorded in January - March, 2020 while on sabbatical from ministry. They each deal with a different aspect or expression of the Gospel. Click on the image above to listen.

Three Hands Clapping

Three Hands Clapping
This is my latest recording project (released May 27, 2019). It is a double album of 22 songs, which very roughly track the story of my life... a sort of musical autobiography, so to speak. Click the album image to listen.

Ghost Notes

Ghost Notes
A collections of original songs I wrote in 2015, and recorded with the FreeWay Musical Collective. Click the album image to listen.

inversions

inversions
Recorded in 2014, these songs are sort of a chronicle of my journey through a pastoral burn-out last winter. They deal with themes of mental-health, spiritual burn-out and depression, but also with the inexorable presence of God in the midst of darkness. Click the album art to download.

soundings

soundings
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"soundings" is a collection of songs I recorded in September/October of 2013. Dealing with themes of hope, ache, trust and spiritual loss, the songs on this album express various facets of my journey with God.

bridges

bridges
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"Bridges" is a collection of original songs I wrote in the summer of 2011, during a soul-searching trip I took out to Alberta; a sort of long twilight in the dark night of the soul. I share it here in hopes these musical reflections on my own spiritual journey might be an encouragement to others: the sun does rise, blood-red but beautiful.

echoes

echoes
Prayers, poems and songs (2005-2009). Click to download
"echoes" is a collection of songs I wrote during my time studying at Briercrest Seminary (2004-2009). It's called "echoes" partly because these songs are "echoes" of times spent with God from my songwriting past, but also because there are musical "echoes" of hymns, songs or poems sprinkled throughout the album. Listen closely and you'll hear them.

Accidentals

Accidentals
This collection of mostly blues/rock/folk inspired songs was recorded in the spring and summer of 2015. I call it "accidentals" because all of the songs on this project were tunes I have had kicking around in my notebooks for many years but had never found a "home" for on previous albums. You can click the image to download the whole album.

37 Good Things

Last week was my 37th birthday.  This time last year I composed a list of "36 reasons I'm glad to be alive" and I thought a similar post for the big 3-7 might be apropos.  Reminders of reasons to love life, after all, might be first on the list.

1.  Sunshine in June
2.  The smell of a Russian Olive tree off in the distance
3.  Camping
4.  Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
5.  People watching at the Y
6.  U2's Achtung Baby
7.  Q on CBC Radio 1
8.  Dead Poets Society
9.  Officiating at Weddings
10.  That dusty old book-page smell that hangs about
        your face when you're reading an old book
11.  Settlers of Catan
12. Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
13.  Playing djembe on the worship team
14.  Building "Thomas the Train" tracks with a child
15.  Reading out loud to each other as a family
16.  Memories of backpacking through Europe
17.  Maps
18.  Cumin
19. Watching my son become a man
20.  Canola fields and blue sky
21.  Cool, humid mornings that promise to become
        a scorcher of day
22.  C. S. Lewis books 
23.  Playing Lost Heir with mom and dad
24.  Stumbling across a forgotten piece of one's own juvenilia.
25.  Family movie nights
26.  Rainy afternoons
27.  Walks in the forest park around the corner from our house
28.  Teaching
29.  Eating with chopsticks
30.  The Breastplate of St. Patrick (the prayer and the Irish hymn)
31.  Strong coffeee
32.  Watching home videos on New Years Eve
33.  Dancing with my kids
34.  Fresh garden potatoes with dill
35.  Stationary
36.  Words whose form and meaning are as close
         together as possible-- like sesquipadalian and tintinnabular
37.  Moments of inspiration

 

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