The welcome began before us.
The welcome began before us.
We carry pieces of our families into everything we make. Bubble, aka Chief, taught Caleb to ask questions, tell stories and do his part and a little bit more. Birdie brings creativity and warmth in the form of a song, a craft, an essential oil or a good story she has heard. HJ and Honey gave Ali her eye for good taste, her love of throwing an epic party and her instinct to make people feel seen and taken care of. Honey never goes anywhere without bringing a sweet surprise along with her.
Nannie and Vaughn are legends in our family. Although they have been gone a while, their memory lives on in the ranch, the stories and the table that kept making room. At the heart of our family has always been the instinct to gather and retreat—to get away together, tell the stories again and let everyone have a part. We hope to carry that forward on a bigger scale through ROOTED & KNOWN: more rooms, more tables, more shared time and more people invited into the good of it. Our brothers and sisters—Ryan, Josh, Nathan, Ben and Jennifer—made becoming ourselves a shared project. We honor them by keeping the table generous, the stories alive and the person in front of us worth noticing.
This is the life we are trying to live: rooted in what we have received, known by the people we love and open to the people still finding their way to the table.