Her two sons

Both of them write.

Karen wrote the line down by hand. Her boys ended up doing the same thing in words. One in books, one in short pieces.

Their mother traced sixty feet of whakapapa so the family would know where it came from. That is where this comes from too.

The writing sits beside the shop rather than on top of it. Karen's work is what this place is for. This page is here because the same house holds all three of them, and because you cannot really separate the knitting from the writing when both are people trying to hand something on.

The eldest

Anthony. Āhuru

The Invisible Code is the only published title currently shown here.

The Invisible Code
The Invisible Code cover

The youngest

Steven. Tēpane

Steven goes by Tēpane. He and his brother work on all of this together, every day.

His stories are here in his own voice. More of his journey can be added when he is ready.

He is writing his own book at the same time, in his own voice. Raw, honest, funny, big hearted. Honesty is the whole foundation of it. In his own words, it is the story of a man who ran his whole life, got caught by love, came home, and chose himself, written down so his kids know who their old man really was.

He has written a great deal, and he has begun putting his own name to it in public. The pieces he has chosen for this page are below.

Steven's picture. Three ancestors standing above a harbour at sunset, and a man with a pack walking down towards the water.
By Tēpane The House That Walked Home A house that gets up and walks beside a man for thirty two days. He wrote it, and he posted it himself, in his own voice. Read it By Tēpane The Bridge Mana, wairua, aroha. The three he comes from, the conqueror and the conquered meeting in one body, and the walk that is carrying him home. Read it By Tēpane Now You’re a Hunter His first boat, ten ton of shark, and a night on a black beach where a cousin off his nan’s line made him a hunter. Read it By Tēpane The Reddened Current Kura-te-au. A man walking in the dark who thinks he is on his own, and the ones walking with him who prove he never was. Read it By Tēpane Ebony and Ivory For Josh Brown. The door in the middle of the thirty three years, and the man who held it open for him at thirty. Read it By Tēpane Ten Days in May Two children, two Williams, and ten days in 1906 that had folded two lives into one. His mother’s handwriting is what put them back. Read it Steven + Anthony The Brothers Journey Short moments, walks and honest conversations from the brothers, told by them. Watch on YouTube The family history lane Whakapapa Stories The stories out of Karen’s manuscript and the records behind it, documenting the whakapapa of the people of this place. See them all

Coming

More of the pieces Steven picks for this page go up as he chooses them.

Why this page exists

The brothers, working alongside their mother.

One house in Robina. Karen in her chair with the needles going, and her two sons at their desks. Everyone handing something forward.

Meet the makers