Patty And Mitch
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Mitch moved here in the late 70’s and bought the property, where we live, to start his first company. His company sold dish gardens (miniature landscape scenes). That’s how we met! I was the buyer at a nursery in Kendall and he would come by with his truck and I would buy things.
Ruth
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Well, some people will say, 'Oh, you don't look more than 96.' It's the passion that you acquire over the years and maintaining sociability. Keep in touch with all kinds of people, they don't have to be the same social level, or interest level. Keep knowing the same number or more, and don't block them out as you get older.
Samuel And Kristina
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Do you have a fun fact you would like to share?: Did you know... Curacao has the oldest active synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.
Josh
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I walked in as a line cook right before Art Basel and I got absolutely crushed my first two nights. And then the sous chef left for vacation and turned to me and said, 'the station is yours.' Learning by fire was absolutely awesome. I started as a line cook and then I became a roundsman and I learned all the stations, then became junior sous, and then ended up spending a month at Nobu 57 in New York, and then I was promoted to executive sous chef for the new one in Los Angeles. I did all of my major management training with Nobu. The experience was amazing.
Christiana
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A mindfulness practice is different for every person. The one thing that I think is beneficial for everyone is meditation. Meditation can come in many forms, but essentially I recommend to start out is to set a time during the day. I prefer the morning. Sit in silence and be alone with your mind. In mindfulness meditation, we focus on the breath. Anytime you become distracted by a thought, feeling, or emotion, come back to focusing on your breath as it comes in and as it flows out. That's the formal practice of mindfulness. The informal practice is everything else that occurs in your life. So when someone cuts me off in traffic, am I immediately reacting in a negative way, or am I choosing to respond?
Noah
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In 2013 I had the opportunity to qualify for the CrossFit games - it's like the Superbowl of our sport - 'the world championships.' I wasn't really expecting to be able to do so just yet. But in the middle of the competition I found myself sitting in first place. I was going to earn that qualifying spot and I had one bad workout, with the dead lift, and it took me out of contention. After being able to taste the lead for a little while and then have that taken away made me work really, really hard to not experience that feeling again.
Alex
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A lot. Really, just to help people. When I was 14, we were walking down the beach one day and there was a mass of people going crazy. There was a blue baby on the sand. I'm just like in shock. My dad casually tells everybody to move away. He grabs the baby. He does CPR like he taught me how to do it. With a really small infant, you can't really use your hands. You use your fingers. He just had his two index finger fingers and hit the little baby's chest a couple of times and blew in his mouth and the baby survived. And, then he just continued walking down the beach like it was nothing. I was like wow. Something so simple can save a life.
Mitch (round 2)
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It is called the RX of Dr. Z. It's unlike my other writing. I had a friend a few years ago who was going for STEM cell transplant and had to be 40 days in isolation. His wife asked us to keep him entertained during his isolation. I invented a fictional person who was worse off than he was. This fictional person was keeping a 40 day journal at the suggestion of his psychiatrist. Each day I would write about a thousand words and send it to my friend. It was a wonderful experience because we had this fictional person between us, to talk about. At the end of 40 days, he recovered and I had 40,000 words.
Jason
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When I was 22, I noticed that I didn’t feel good. I was tired, lethargic and sure I wasn’t supposed to feel this way. One night around 2 am, I was watching a health food documentary on Netflix and had one of those stoner-eureka moments. The next day, I bought a juicer and went to Whole Foods and bought $500 dollars of produce and did a 15-day juice fast. I noticed instantly that I had a lot more energy, was losing weight, my testosterone was through the roof – I felt on top of the world. After the fast, I looked for a transition back to food and that’s where I learned of alternative diets.
Adena
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There are so many ingredients to choose from. My dream is a restaurant in the middle of the farm where you actually pick your meal and cook it. We have chickens now. That's a big project that my brother has undertaken and the organic eggs are phenomenal. There's a bit of a controversy in my family - do we eat the chickens? I'm currently working on a turmeric hummus and I think green jackfruit is next. Green jackfruit can resemble the texture of meat when cooked and seasoned properly but it's hard to process because of all the sap.