Batture House Books
The independent publishing imprint of Collective Practices Media
Batture House Books publishes books, field guides, workbooks, and companion audio practices for contemplative practice in ordinary life, especially work that resonates with life along the Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida.
Our publications are grounded in meditation, spiritual history, lived experience, and the practical work of returning to presence in the middle of real life: work, family, conflict, grief, aging, leadership, transition, repair, and renewal.
Batture House Books is the publishing home for the forthcoming At the Tables of Life series.
The At the Tables of Life Series
Meditation, mercy, and contemplative practice for ordinary life.
The At the Tables of Life series teaches meditation as deep, usable interior work, based in equanimity, clear seeing, and compassion, for people whose demanding lives are wearing them down. One simple idea runs through the series: how we show up at the tables of life determines what is possible. We have two choices: continue to run from table to table in a mentally and emotionally scattered way, reacting rather than responding mindfully; or stop running and become present for ourselves and others. This series will walk you through the process of becoming more present in your own life and at all the tables, literal and metaphorical, of life. .
At the Tables of Life will begin with Meditation with Mercy: A Beginner’s Guide (And We’re All Beginners), followed by companion Field Guides and audio practices.
Coming Fall 2026
Meditation with Mercy: A Beginner’s Guide (And We’re All Beginners)
The first book in the At the Tables of Life series, Meditation with Mercy, introduces a grounded and compassionate approach to meditation for readers who are new to practice, returning to practice, or beginning again in a new season of life.
The book approaches meditation through four doorways: secular practice, Buddhist practice, Christian practice, and integrative practice. These doorways are not presented as competing paths, but as ways readers may recognize, enter, and deepen contemplative practice from where they actually stand.
This is meditation for the life readers are already living. In the Gulf South, that life may include work, family, caregiving, conflict, grief, recovery, reinvention, and going to church on Sunday. Meditation with Mercy makes room for that whole reality.
This is not a book about achieving perfect calm or becoming a different kind of person. It is a book about learning to sit, breathe, notice, return, and live with more mercy toward ourselves and others.
Drawing on meditation, spiritual history, lived experience, and ordinary moments of practice, Meditation with Mercy invites readers to approach meditation as a way of becoming more present to the life they actually have.
The book will be accompanied by author-narrated audio practices and followed by shorter Field Guides designed for continued practice and integration.
Formats planned: ebook, paperback, audiobook, and companion audio practices.