Love
Move toward people with your whole attention.
The heart underneath it
The fruit is for sharing.
The Rooted & Known began as a simple question: what would it look like to notice what is good, practice it in ordinary life and pass it forward?
Why we gather
Good things grow outward.
We begin with gratitude: life is gift, and Jesus—Yeshua, the Hebrew-Aramaic form of his name, often understood as “the Lord saves”—is the blueprint for how a human life becomes love in motion. We believe what Christ did on planet earth shifted our story and made things new, reconnecting us to the Divine Source—a way back into union and participation in the great dance of care, beauty, truth and joy.
This is not a religious movement to join or a system to master. It is a relational dance with the Divine—an invitation to receive love, wake up to one another and let what is sacred become visible in ordinary life.
That is the thread through NINE, the tables we set, the homes we edit, the places we notice and the stories we keep. Goodness is not meant to be stored away. It is meant to become hospitality.
The nine practices
What we are trying to grow.
These are the words we return to when the day gets noisy. They are small enough to practice at home, at school, at work, in a marriage, around a table or on the road.
Joy
Notice what is still alive and let gratitude widen the day.
Peace
Make room for a steadier presence.
Patience
Let good things take the time they need.
Kindness
Choose the action that makes another life lighter.
Goodness
Practice what is true when no one is keeping score.
Faithfulness
Keep showing up for what matters.
Gentleness
Hold power with care.
Self-control
Make space between impulse and choice.
How it started
It began in an ordinary moment.
Somewhere between feeding Violet, getting ready for school and carrying the usual list of things, a quiet thought arrived: okay, Lord. I hear you.
The idea was not to build a brand that tells people how to live. It was to make a place where we could practice what we already believe—through a word on a shirt, a page in a journal, a question at dinner, a song, a garden, a home or an evening beneath the stars.
NINE is the practice. ROOTED & KNOWN is the wider table.
The hospitality dream
What if the welcome had an address?
Someday, we hope to build toward a house and farm with good beds, long tables, a garden, a few cabins and open doors. A place shaped by family life, thoughtful work and the belief that people need somewhere to arrive, rest and be known.
We are not pretending to have it all figured out. No one is perfect; we are simply trying to be the embodiment of what we believe—living it out in the rooms we make, the tables we set and the way we welcome people.
- For people: a place to feel less alone.
- For makers: a place for good work to find its next home.
- For communities: gatherings that turn attention into care.
- For the future: a living example that hospitality can be generous, beautiful and useful.
How an evening works
Make room. Share something good. Send people home lighter.
A Rooted & Known gathering is not a performance. It is a carefully held invitation where the details serve the people, the people make the memory and the memory keeps moving.
Come as you are.
A chair, a drink, a little music and an easy beginning. No one should have to earn their welcome.
Let the room do its work.
Good food, flowers, place and sound create a little breathing room for people to pay attention to one another.
Give the evening a thread.
A song, an artist, a question, a story or a table of something delicious gives the night a shape worth remembering.
Leave with something.
A new name, a new idea, a small practice, a little courage—or simply the feeling that there is still good work to do together.
Our first invitation: A Song Beneath the Stars—music, cheese, seasonal fruit, wine, really good decaf and one question worth carrying home.
Open the invitation →