As a parent in the digital era, I snap pictures like crazy. I send one image after another to my husband, documenting my day with the children in fragments that he can piece together remotely. Each image sent to him seems to stamp the moment with more value, and yet, ask me two days later what those snapshots were and why, and it’s likely I’ll just look at you with a blank stare before changing the subject....
We admit it can get a little tempting to just walk out the door with the prettiest-looking bottle. But it’s also really important to pay more attention to what we wash our hair with. A shampoo and conditioner system is, after all, the first line of defense against a bad hair day, as most hair experts agree that real styling begins in the shower. Choosing the perfect wash and care system doesn’t have to be as boring as picking out vitamins at a drugstore....
** I was recently introduced to the new Nexxus Color Assure Long Lasting Vibrancy Cleansing Conditioner. This drugstore buy is easily available without too much of an investment and it truly delivers. Formulated for color-treated hair, this cleansing conditioner cleanses and moisturizes color treated hair. It’s sulfate-free and full of Elastin Protein and quinoa that will build your hair up and increase its vibrancy. You start by getting your hair wet as you would before a regular hair washing session....
The film includes interviews with Megan Cowan, the director of Mindful Schools, an initiative that offers a mindfulness curriculum to U.S. schools, and brain scientist Richard Davidson, who is founder and chair of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. HEALTHY HABITS OF MIND from Persona Film on Vimeo.
Curiosity. It has “its own reason for existing,” physicist Albert Einstein wrote, and is, according to 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson, “the first passion and the last.” We all know what killed the cat, so perhaps 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes was right when he called curiosity “the lust of the mind”—since in a lustful state we (and perhaps felines?) toss self-preservation to the winds. But considering how common curiosity is, scientists who study the mind are only beginning to fathom where it comes from, what it’s good for, and what happens when we have a lot or not much of it....
