Mindfulness and Smartphones

Via Big Think: What’s the Latest Development? Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close off your posture to the world also close your attention, weakening your ability to engage the world around you. In an experiment, “researchers paid 75 participants to use one of a range of devices–iPod Touch […]

We trekked 10 miles in Colombia’s Valle de Cocora

9/13 Quote: “Organizations that do nothing but measure the numbers rarely create breakthroughs. Merely better numbers.” – Seth Godin

First Steps in Growing an Organic Fruit and Vegetable Garden

It’s Friday at Lucid Practice, so that means it’s time for a garden post! This spring, Kate, Brian, Danielle and I started our own organic fruits and vegetable garden. We purchased our membership into the the Westport Community Garden Association and we were granted a 20′ x 10′ plot. The first step was to create “raised beds.” […]