The Rooted & Known
FIELDWORK · special edition

FIELDWORK

Books to mark up, carry outside and return to. Less curriculum. More companion.

Now taking shape

Three ways into the work.

These journals are the first shelf in a larger publishing world—honest prompts, lived stories and useful practices made for real tables and muddy hands. They are still becoming, but this is the shape of what you will be able to order.

What to expect

Choose the companion that fits your life. Tap See what’s inside to open a small preview of the pages, practices and tone. When the first copies are ready, the same page will become the place to order.

The collection, in the round

Made to be carried. Made to be kept.

FIELDWORK began with a few useful pages and kept becoming a small publishing world: a children’s trail book, a grown-up return to the orchard, and a father-and-son guide for the long way home.

They belong to the same world. Each one begins as a practical paperback for real hands and real tables, with a limited deluxe clothbound edition made to keep.

Special editionThe heirloom set

Woven green cloth, watercolor field art and the five-tree mark - a quieter collector edition for the shelf.

Locked FIELDWORK collector and paperback editions of ABIDE, Muddy Boots and Good Fruit, and The Great Dance arranged together on a warm wood table
One publishing world · lighter paperbacks for carrying, deluxe clothbound editions for keeping
ABIDE special-edition clothbound cover in moss green with watercolor trees, creek and a quiet star Welcome to the ABIDE World: a green field journal, five trees, a star and the book’s notice, breathe, reflect, practice, carry it home rhythm Welcome to the ABIDE worldA real nine-day rhythm for staying near and carrying the good home. Open the full ABIDE world
ABIDE · look inside 01 / 03

Stay near. Notice what grows.

A nine-day field guide for breath prayer, staying near the Source and noticing the fruit that grows when we abide. We made it for ordinary days when attention scatters and you need a gentle way back.

Open pages · a real peek inside
ABIDE welcome page, Begin Where You Are
Begin where you are
ABIDE Breath and Abide page
Breathe + abide

Arrive Breath prayer, Scripture and a little room to become present.

Notice One honest reflection and three practices for the ordinary day.

Return An affirmation and breathwork for beginning again without shame.

“Stay near. Notice what grows.”
 For adults · special-edition cover

ABIDE

Rooted & Known Publications · collector edition

A nine-day field guide for receiving Love, practicing the nine words in ordinary life and returning without shame when you wander.

“This is a field guide, not a finish line.”
Read inside ABIDE Let me know when you want your first copy · suggested $36 + postage
Muddy Boots and Good Fruit special-edition clothbound cover with Henry, Violet and their dog in the Hill Country Welcome to the Muddy Boots World with Henry James, Violet Elisabeth, woodland friends and a story-board of notice, breathe and try it Welcome to the Muddy Boots worldMeet the trail friends. Follow the good-fruit story. Open the full Muddy Boots world
MUDDY BOOTS · look inside 02 / 03

Read it. Try it. Make it yours.

Follow Henry James and Violet Elisabeth through the Rooted & Known world with their woodland friends—learning to notice, wonder, and practice the fruits of the Spirit in the middle of ordinary days. Part story, part field guide, part invitation to grow a good life together.

Open pages · a real peek inside
Muddy Boots welcome page with Henry and Violet
Welcome to the trail
Muddy Boots Love page
Love · try one good word

Notice Find one good thing hiding in an ordinary day.

Try it Draw it, share it or practice it with a grown-up nearby.

Keep wandering Meet Texas animals, follow the trail and make room for muddy-handed ideas.

“A good life, grown wild + free.”
 For children, with a grown-up nearby · special-edition cover

Muddy Boots + Good Fruit

Rooted & Known Publications · collector edition

A shared trail guide with native animals, tiny practices, room to draw, and nine good words Henry and Violet can carry into real life.

“Joy is noticing the good while it is happening.”
Read inside Muddy Boots Let me know when you want your first copy · suggested $36 + postage
The Great Dance special-edition clothbound cover with a father and son under a Hill Country live oak Watercolor father-and-son field guide artwork for The Great Dance The Great Dance · overviewEsteban + Enrique: a good road, a long table, a life made whole. Open the full Great Dance world
THE GREAT DANCE · look inside 03 / 03

Good reading. Room to write. A long table to come back to.

A field guide for the life a man is actually living: fatherhood, friendship, work, home, conflict, rest, and the long walk back to what matters. Esteban, a Spanish immigrant, teaches Enrique through meals, roads, hospitality, useful work and the nine practices—learning to stay open, live by wisdom, and abide with the Spirit that gives life.

Consider Short field notes for the life you are actually living.

Write Questions with enough room for a real answer.

Carry it out Practices for becoming the kind of man you hope to be.

“The whole of a man belongs here.”
 A field guide for the whole life · special-edition cover

The Great Dance

For men making a good life: friendship, fatherhood, work, style, books, roads worth taking, and the wisdom to walk through hard things with an open heart. Good reading. Room to write. Nothing to prove.

“The whole of a man belongs here.”
Open the Great Dance field guide Let me know when you want your first copy · suggested $36 + postage
From the muddy trail

A few more pages from the country.

The children’s world keeps opening outward: bluebonnets, armadillos, roadrunners, berry-bright paths and the kind of afternoon that leaves a little dirt on everything.

Watercolor of two children walking a Texas trail with an armadillo and a roadrunner
Follow the trail
Watercolor of two children gathering bluebonnets and studying a field guide in a Texas Hill Country meadow
Gather what is living
Watercolor of two children drawing and making lemonade at a small camp table beneath a live oak
Make room for wonder
FIELDWORK · print studies

A small series of watercolor trail pieces is taking shape around fatherhood, attention and the places we learn to notice together. These may become prints for the walls, desks and rooms where a good life is being made.

Tell me when prints are ready
Watercolor of a father and son walking a Texas Hill Country trail toward a lake
The Great Dance · field note 01
Watercolor print study of a father and young son walking down a Texas trail
Field note 02
Watercolor print study of a father and young son looking over a Texas lake at sunrise
Field note 03
Soft launch · personal replies

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The larger shelf

Made from the field, not above it.

FIELDWORK will hold seasonal editions, conversations, place notes, family practices and the occasional beautiful object that helps an idea stay close.

The master framework guides the work quietly. What we publish is the useful, human part you can actually carry.