Books that plant
the covenant.
The covenant, carried forward the way a forest carries itself — by seeding. Ten volumes, one for each part of the living story.
Any child who puts a seed in the ground has chosen the side of life.Part X · Give
Each chronicle is a different seed, sized for a different hand. Together they form one curriculum of belonging — learn to notice, learn to feel, learn the name and story of your place, and carry it to one other person.
The ten volumes map one-to-one to the ten parts of the covenant, so a reader can enter at any age and grow into the whole.
The Cedars Chronicles.
Notice — What is alive
A child, a seed, and a place that wakes up around them. The first invitation to notice the living web — old-growth wonder rendered for the youngest reader.
Feel — What has been lost
The ache of species loneliness, told gently — the howl across the distance, and the first turn back toward relationship with the rest of Creation.
Root — What life already knows
Twelve beavers, five years, a stream that flows year-round. A journal for learning that life is already a regenerative system — and how to read it.
Grow — Who we become
Not “what should I do?” but “what kind of being am I becoming?” The virtues as practices, with pages to fill as the reader grows into them.
Story of Place — Where we stand
Interview elders, read the land, write the untold story of your town. A full project unit that ends with a place appearing on the living map.
The Instruments — Structures that free life
The tools of freedom — the legal, financial, and governance structures built to outlast any market cycle. How a covenant holds across generations.
The Measurement — How we know life increases
Five capitals — natural, human, social, built, financial — held in one view. The coherence score, and what it means to measure what matters.
The Living Intelligence — Technology that serves life
A companion that walks beside you instead of tracking you. The anti-algorithm — intelligence in service of attention, memory, and belonging.
How We Live — The practices of belonging
Seasonal practices of belonging held in living tension. What to plant, notice, and pass on — the way a river practices flowing and a root practices reaching.
Give — The invitation
The covenant ends not with a conclusion but a question. Living arrows, sent forth — any child who plants a seed has chosen the side of life.
More seeds,
each season.
New editions join the chronicles as more places tell their story — translations, regional field guides, classroom editions. Want to seed one?