How The Book of the Small Changed Our Parenting (Before It Was Even Published)

The Book of the Small is officially live.

But the truth is — this book was already alive before it ever saw print.

It started moving through our family almost as soon as it was written. It gave us a language we didn’t know we needed. It gave us something to lean on — in the middle of tantrums, meltdowns, laughter, and the messy beautiful collapse of everyday life.

We find ourselves leaning on its core tenets daily:

Do what thou must shall be the whole of the Law.
Boundaries are the law, self-care under will.
There is no law beyond do what thou must — and tend thyself with grace.

Simple words. Simple structure. But there is deep power behind them.

It’s changed how we move through our toddler’s outbursts.
It’s changed how we understand boundaries — not as walls, but as expressions of love.
It’s helped us hold firm when we needed to, and soften when it mattered most.

There’s an undercurrent to this book — something that has preserved our sanity in the storm. When our child is screaming in our faces, tears pouring down his cheeks, and every old reflex is begging for control — these words meet us in the middle. They remind us: stay steady. hold fast. tend thyself with grace.

The Book of the Small isn’t a rulebook. It’s a raft.

And you don’t need to understand Thelema, or Liber AL, or any of the traditions that inspired it to find something powerful here. This book was written for real life — messy, glorious, sacred life.

That said — if you are familiar with the Book of the Law, I think you’ll find something especially resonant. Something hidden between the tantrums and the snack crumbs and the sacred tantrum-light. A reflection of the Law lived out in real-time chaos.

I don't know exactly what this book will mean to anyone else.
But I know what it's already meant for us.

And I’m grateful to finally be able to share it.

If you feel called to explore it, you can find The Book of the Small: Liber TRVH vel Littles here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NY9NYG

93, and love under will.
— Sarlon White