The use of a garden as a metaphor for the mind works because it indicates the need for growth and maintainance. If your mind were a garden how would you keep it functioning? What would you plant? Does much grow or is it overrun with weeds? Picture, if you will, a flat chunk of land with…

In this world of powerful, always-on connectivity, with constant RSS streams of media battling for our eyeballs, with content moving off the television and onto our portable devices, it becomes easy to forget that all things digital have an OFF setting, and that occasionally, it might be useful to exercise that option. What would a day…