Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden

June 26, 2018

...Westchester, a suburb of Los Angeles near the airport. This past weekend a 10th anniversary party was held to celebrate the collaboration and recognize the leaders of the two organizations, Joanne Poyourow, founder of Environmental Changemakers (and a guest on episode 33 of the podcast) and The Rev. Peter Rood, Rector of Holy Nativity. The garden has since metastasized from the side of the church’s building to the front and worked its way into th...

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Choral Evensong as Meditation

Mr. Homegrown

November 14, 2018

Thoughtstylings

...ts 470-year-old choral music tradition – established around 1549 – is performed live and often to a very high standard. The Choral Evensong website lists places around the world where you can attend a service. If you’re in Los Angeles there is a Choral Evensong performance this Saturday November 17th at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral at 5 p.m. I will, likely, make an appearance as the Verger. The choir is magnificent and St. John’s is one of Los A...

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Make Pizza in Your Oven

Mr. Homegrown

March 6, 2019

Bread, Food

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...n Fork and I seem to exist in some sort of synchronicity vortex. This past Saturday, after I finished teaching a bread class in which I used the same dough to demonstrate how you can make pizza in your oven with a cast iron skillet, I settled down on the couch to catch up with Eric’s YouTube channel. And guess what he was demonstrating? I first learned about this technique from Josey Baker. Basically, you start the pizza out on the stove top and f...

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Thinking Local

Mr. Homegrown

April 5, 2019

Thoughtstylings

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...r the locals that read this blog I urge you to come out and vote tomorrow, Saturday April 6th from 12 to 6pm at St. Francis of Assissi 1523 Golden Gate Ave. Anyone who lives, works or belongs to an organization in Silver Lake is eligible to vote and I urge you to vote for the new Progressive Slate of candidates who promise to, so to speak, drain the reservoir of its current swamp creatures. For those of you not in Silver Lake, the problems with ou...

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Sweet Tweet Feat

Mr. Homegrown

August 24, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...mentioned in a blog post, I’m taking a break from Twitter for month so no Saturday Tweets today. I’m thinking I will bring a link feature back but without using Twitter for a few reasons: Some people have trouble viewing my Twitter re-posts. If Twitter ever goes out of business or I get “deplatformed” for some reason I’ll lose all the posts that I’ve put up. Twitter has devolved into shouting and makes me want to shout too, so I’m going to reduce...

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