Welcome to The Rooted Year
Welcome to The Rooted Year - Living slowly through seasons and sacred time
Hello, friend. I'm so glad you've found your way here.
In a world that rushes from one thing to the next, where seasons blur together in a haze of artificial light and climate-controlled spaces, where sacred time gets squeezed into Sunday mornings, if we're lucky, I want to invite you into something different. Something slower. Something deeper.
This is a space for those of us who want to live deliberately, who sense there's richness to be found in paying attention to the rhythms that have guided human life for millennia. It's for those who are curious about what it might mean to let the seasons shape our days, to let the church calendar guide our celebrations, and to find the holy woven through the ordinary moments of tending and making.
What You'll Find Here
Seasonal Rhythms will explore how we can align our lives with nature's cycles—from the foods we eat to the way we care for our homes, from the colors that surround us to the pace at which we move through our days.
Liturgical Living invites us to rediscover the ancient wisdom of the church year, finding ways to mark Advent waiting, Easter joy and finding meaning in Ordinary time, to embrace both feast and fast, and to create family traditions that connect us to something larger than ourselves.
Slow Practices celebrates the contemplative arts, the meditation found in kneading bread, the prayer of hand-stitching a quilt, the mindfulness of watching dye plants transform simple fabric into something beautiful and turning dried flowers into forever arrangements. These are the practices that resist our culture's demand for speed and efficiency.
Sacred Ordinary reminds us that holiness isn't confined to Sunday mornings or special occasions. It's found in the steam rising from our morning coffee, in the dirt under our fingernails after an afternoon in the garden, in the way we gather our people around the table.
Rooted in Creation connects us to the land that sustains us. Here we'll dig deep into gardening with native plants through the seasons, cultivating dye plants that will become next year's quilt, growing herbs for culinary and medicinal uses, growing flowers for fresh and dried bouquets, and finding our place within the larger web of creation that calls us to stewardship and wonder.
A Personal Invitation
I come to this writing not as an expert, but as a fellow traveler. In my own small corner of the world, I'm learning what it means to grow flowers that become dyes, to transform those colors into fabric, and to stitch that fabric into quilts that will outlast me. I'm discovering how the rhythm of the liturgical year can shape not just my Sundays, but my entire week. I'm practicing what it means to live slowly in a world that rewards speed, to find meaning in the garden and remember that the hand that compels me to take in the beauty around me is the hand of God.
Some days I succeed. Many days I don't. But I'm convinced that in this practicing, this patient returning to rhythms of rest and reverence, there's a way of life worth cultivating.
What This Isn't
This isn't about perfection or performance. You won't find pristine Instagram-worthy photos here, or instructions for creating the perfect seasonal tablescape. This isn't about adding more to your already full life or making you feel guilty about the ways you haven't measured up to some impossible standard.
Instead, this is about subtraction. About finding what matters and letting the rest fall away. About discovering that when we align ourselves with rhythms larger than our own ambitions, we find not restriction, but freedom.
Come As You Are
Whether you're drawn to one particular thread, maybe you've always wanted to garden,, or you're curious about liturgical living but don't know where to start, or whether the whole tapestry speaks to something you've been longing for, you're welcome here.
Come if you're tired of rushing. Come if you want to learn to see the sacred in the ordinary. Come if you've ever wondered what it might be like to let the seasons teach you how to live.
Let's learn together what it means to be rooted, in place, in time, in the rhythms that connect us to something larger than ourselves. Let's discover what grows when we're brave enough to slow down.
Grace and peace,
Amelia
I'd love to hear from you in the comments—what draws you to slow living? What questions do you have about seasonal or liturgical living? What rhythms are you hoping to cultivate in your own life?
