(daily ex. update, super cold out, only walked 1 mile with the dog.  Ytd walk 690.8 miles.  Evening TM run 4.1 miles, ytd run 1480.4 miles.)

"If you have a body, you are an athlete." - Bill Bowerman

 Good to remember.

(ex update, jog 2.5 miles to save my streak, ytd 1476.3 miles. Morning walk 1 mile with my dog in the crunchy snow and cold, ytd walk 689.8 miles.  Also scooped snow, although more snow predicted for tonight and tomorrow.)

 

(ex update, tm run 3.5 miles pm, ytd 1473 miles.  Walk dog in am 1.6 miles, ytd walk 688.8 miles.  Run+walk total=2161.8 miles)

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

Fun Fact: Goats have rectangular pupils, which is thought to be a development to help detect predators in the wild.

 Just an interesting piece of info for the day.

(ex update, run 3.5 miles tm pm, ytd run 1469.5 miles.  Morning slow walk with dog, 2.5 miles, ytd walk 687.2 miles.  Run/walk total 2156.7 miles.  RSD 2287.)

“You can remember it, he told himself, but you cannot experience it again like this. You have to be satisfied with the shadows.” —John L. Parker Jr. in Once a Runner

 

     When Nostalgia was a disease, treated with leeches and bullying:

Swiss physician Johannes Hofer coined the term in his 1688 medical dissertation, from the Greek nostos, or homecoming, and algos, or pain. The disease was similar to paranoia, except the sufferer was manic with longing, not perceived persecution, and similar to melancholy, except specific to an object or place.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/when-nostalgia-was-a-disease/278648/

In the fall we were nostalgic for the summer. In the winter we were nostalgic for the fall. In the summer we were nostalgic for the spring. But in the spring we were not nostalgic for the winter, not even for its quiet, or its hot cocoas, or its video fires,

     from The Ruins of Nostalgia 38 by Donna Stonecipher, who has an entire series of poems on The Ruins of Nostalgia

https://poems.com/poem/the-ruins-of-nostalgia-38/

     It's interesting how several of the things you happen to read point to the same subject.  Is it coincidental or just what my brain finds of importance at a given moment?

(ex update, run with dog 2.1 miles slowly in a.m.,  run 3.3 miles on tm in p.m., ytd run 1466.8 miles.  Walk 1 mile to warm up/cool down.  Ytd walk 684.7 miles.  Run + walk total 2151.5 miles. That number is sure increasing slowly!)

 

The Swiss Cheese Model of Pandemic Defense defined:

 

The Swiss Cheese Model of Pandemic Defense It’s not edible, but it can save lives. The virologist Ian Mackay explains how. Thought this was important to share - Saw this on Google News from NYT - virologist Ian Mackay University of Queensland -- Lately, in the ongoing conversation about how to defeat the coronavirus, experts have made reference to the “Swiss cheese model” of pandemic defense. The metaphor is easy enough to grasp: Multiple layers of protection, imagined as cheese slices, block the spread of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. No one layer is perfect; each has holes, and when the holes align, the risk of infection increases. But several layers combined — social distancing, plus masks, plus hand-washing, plus testing and tracing, plus ventilation, plus government messaging — significantly reduce the overall risk. Vaccination will add one more protective layer. “Pretty soon you’ve created an impenetrable barrier, and you really can quench the transmission of the virus,” said Dr. Julie Gerberding, executive vice president and chief patient officer at Merck, who recently referenced the Swiss cheese model when speaking at a virtual gala fund-raiser for MoMath, the National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan. “But it requires all of those things, not just one of those things,” she added. “I think that’s what our population is having trouble getting their head around. We want to believe that there is going to come this magic day when suddenly 300 million doses of vaccine will be available and we can go back to work and things will return to normal. That is absolutely not going to happen fast.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/coronavirus-swiss-cheese-infection-mackay.html