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The Man Who Exorcised the Bermuda Triangle

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...asts in an attempt to fill that Art Bell hole including the Dark Histories Podcast. The host, Ben Cutmore, did an episode on a very unlikely exorcist, the Anglican clergyman reverend Dr. Donald Omand. Cutmore based the episode on a book, The Man Who Exorcised the Bermuda Triangle by journalist Marc Alexander. I picked up a copy of this book in the library and it proved to be page turning fun. https://youtu.be/XZANit8XpmU?si=bb-nxTlgsa_4fw3Z Father...

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Saturday Tweets: Wild Azaleas, DIY Neutra Chairs and Hot Dog Water

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...e — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 26, 2018 In addition to the Root Simple Podcast, I also record and edit the St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral Podcast. Mostly sermons but the newest episode is an interview with one of the Deans on the Gospel of Mark. Subscribe here: https://t.co/CVSG1Bpt4k @stjohnsla pic.twitter.com/us176HHbbt — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 30, 2018 Cat in a fancy dress [BnF, Latin 1178, 15thc.] pic.twitter.com/Nz3TiTTTMe — Damie...

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A Victorian Life

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A conversational tangent on our podcast this week, in which we mentioned Victorian interiors, prompted Root Simple reader Misti to leave a link to a blog post about Dennis Severs’ amazing Victorian house in London, Dennis Severs was a Californian who left the land of palm trees and bright tan landscapes and came to London in the late 1960s. After giving up on studying law and driving a horse-drawn carriage, in 1979 he bought a derelict eighteenth...

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A Celebration of Craft

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Bread, Food, Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening
...tomato farmer and breeder Fred Hempel who was a guest on episode 79 of our podcast. Like Miller, Hempel has a humility that goes along with a sincere engagement with the natural world. Like Miller he’s more than happy to discuss his craft. A third person I met at the festival is Alice Doyle, owner of Log House Plants a wholesale nursery in Eugene Oregon. In her lecture she went alphabetically through a list of edible plants she thought were intere...

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More on Federico Tobon

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Animals, Bees, Cats, Podcasts
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...terviewing the always creative and ever resourceful Federico Tobon for the podcast. Federico put up a blog post going into more detail on some of the things we talked about during the podcast, specifically the type of CNC router he uses (the ShapeOko 2 ), his social media rules, a video proving that he’s trained his cats (!), his hand sewn bike messenger bag and a shot of the LA Eco Village rooftop beehive. We talked for hours before and after rec...

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