Saturday Tweets: Pawpaws, Tiny Apartments and the Wet Prince of Bel Air

September 24, 2016

...co/WTSNlDSicN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Will US DOT’s Self-Driving Car Rules Make Streets Safe for Walking and Biking? https://t.co/hNkI5JfGE1 via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Garden artist Jeffrey Bale visits Oaxaca: https://t.co/7lOu8CFu35 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Who is the wet prince of Bel Air? https://t.co/dTm2r76TOU — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 22, 2016 Tw...

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Peter and the Farm

Mr. Homegrown

October 28, 2016

Animals, Thoughtstylings

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...oetic idealism has since soured. For all his candor, he slips into drunken self-destructive habits, cursing the splendors of a pastoral landscape that he has spent decades nurturing. Imbued with an aching tenderness, Tony Stone’s documentary is both haunting and heartbreaking, a mosaic of its singular subject’s transitory memories and reflections—however funny, tragic, or angry they may be. Peter and the Farm will be in theaters and available on d...

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How to kill your palm tree

Mrs. Homegrown

November 14, 2016

Gardening, Trees

...have to. Don’t be fetishistic about tidyiness. Let the palm be its natural self. It knows how to grow, it knows where it wants its fronds and boots– after all, palms are much, much, much older than us as a species. They know what they’re doing. You’ll save money and the palm will thank you if you leave it alone. If you do prune your palm, hire a company that knows what they’re doing, or research the topic well before doing it yourself. One final f...

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The Root Simple 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

Mr. Homegrown

November 23, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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...a compass. No, you can’t use it to rate the park on Yelp or Instagram yourself drinking your own urine. Kids, what the compass is useful for is figuring out where you are and/or where you’re going when that cellphone of yours has no signal. What I like about this particular compass is that it has a sighting mirror, critical when you’re getting your bearings. But don’t forget that the compass is, pretty much, useless without a map. Thankfully, you...

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Tolkien and Trees

Mrs. Homegrown

September 8, 2016

Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Trees

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...on p. 66, was written off more or less as it stands, with an effect on my self (except for labour pains) almost like reading some one else’s work. And I like Ents now because they do not seem to have anything to do with me. I daresay something had been going on in the ‘unconscious’ for some time, and that accounts for my feeling throughout, especially when stuck, that I was not inventing but reporting (imperfectly) and had at times to wait till ‘...

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