September at One.
Welcome to Fall! With the closing of summer, labor day weekend and the promise of cooler weather and beautiful fall days, there are many things happening in our community that can be enjoyed safely outdoors, and One. loves to share them all with you!
We hope you will join One. this Friday as we sponsor SOFO's next Drive In Movie Night with live music before the show. Please spread the word for this great community event! (If you miss this one, there are still 2 remaining for the season the last Fridays of September and October.)
If you are new to our newsletter, know that we take your time seriously and only send one newsletter email a month to you. It is filled with the latest health information and local events happening in Annapolis that we hope you find informative, uplifting, and helpful. Please feel free to share, as always it is our biggest complement!
Let us know what you enjoy and what we can do more of, we love hearing from you!
Yours in Wellness,
Jennifer and Christina
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This newsletter is dedicated to the incredible life and works of Sara Huddleston Mertes, Jennifer's friend who we lost tragically this past month along with her husband and father-in-law. |
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What to Expect When you Enter One. Now
If you have not been to our office lately, there are some changes that One. has implemented for the next time you enter our office. Prior to arrival at the office, you will be sent a liability waver and/or a sign in sheet for services. Once completed, you will wait for the all clear for entry as our front door remains locked. Upon entering, masks are required only as you move through communal spaces.
Masks can be removed once you are in a private room if everyone is vaccinated. Small In person group classes are currently allowed with masks optional for vaccinated clients, please check the schedule for in person, hybrid offerings and email us if you are interested in attending. We are also hosting outdoor classes weather permitting.
Upon check out, we will have you insert your credit card, no signature will be required, and receipts will be emailed to you.
Remember, as an extra layer of protection, we have implemented state of the art Premier UV light filtration in our air handlers to keep all the air you breathe in our space, virus free, and to prevent the spread of virus from one area to another.
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Memory is the Darndest Thing
By Elizabeth Fortunato, RA
Have you ever experienced a memory glitch? I call this phenonium a glitch because it does not happen all the time, and when it does happen, it feels like the memory is right on the tip of your tongue, like you can almost reach it. A memory glitch happened to me recently after I made more hand salve. I was trying to find the right, cool place in the house to put the tins when I got interrupted during the process. A few weeks later, I could not find the salves anywhere. I searched everywhere in the house two or three times, even checking the boat. I could not find them anywhere. They had disappeared.
A week or so later, I talked to my son in his room, and there they were! I had put them on his bookshelf while talking to him and had no memory of it!
The memory was no longer associated with searching the house for a cool storage location for the tins of hand salve. This type of memory recall is called serial recall, according to human-memory.net. Serial recall is recalling events in the order in which they occurred. Cued memory and free recall are other forms of memory retrieval. I find my brain works best with some cues to associate with a memory. The cue can be a mnemonic, sound, visual diagram, or in some cases, a scent.
Scent memories are one of the strongest memory cues we have available to help our brain retrieve events with tremendous amounts of detail. They can be bad or good memories. For example, when I was four, I got very sick and had to go to the hospital. It was after Easter, and I had eaten Peeps. To this day, I'm not too fond of the smell of peeps, let alone eat one. However, some of the good memories are just as vivid, clear, and strong. The smell of a pipe reminds me of my great Uncle Phil sitting at his small kitchen table. The scent of boat engine oil reminds me of my Granddaddy in the engine room of his sailboat. The smell of horse manure reminds me of living on the farm and walking through the barn while feeding the horses. It is hard to believe that we do not capitalize more on the power of olfaction as a memory tool.
"Memory retrieval requires revisiting the nerve pathways formed during the encoding and storage of the memory. How quickly a memory is retrieved? Well, it depends upon the strength of neural pathways formed during its encoding" (human-memory.net).
How do you strengthen these neural pathways, you might ask? The next time you need to bone up for an interview, take a professional exam, or remember a specific place, try breathing an essential oil. When you need to recall the information or re-experience an event, smell the same scent. You will be amazed by how well this works to strengthen your recall.
For more information on how your brain works and stores memories, listen to this TedTalk with Lisa Genova. For more information on how to strengthen your memories, read this NIH article on sleep. For new hope in fighting devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's, read this article.
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Elizabeth is offering 20% off custom blends for high school and college kids that want to try enhancing their memory skills with essential oils in September!
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Virtual Foam Roller Class September 18th
Join Christina on Saturday September 18th at 9 am for this restorative class spent entirely on or with a foam roller. An incredible way to heal your body and counteract all the bad things we do to ourselves everyday.
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Chi Gong with Jeff Masenheimer
Looking for a way to destress and calm your mind?
Join Jeff Masenheimer for
Qi Gong exercise, (suitable for all levels) that incorporates deep breathing and slow fluid movements for stretching and strengthening the muscles to achieve a meditative state of mind. The exercises found in Qi Gong involve gentle, rhythmic movements that anyone can perform seated or standing and mirror movements found in nature. Qi Gong teaches us to move our bodies in a similar fluid motion, minimizing the risk of injury while maintaining balance and focus.
Classes are held virtually via zoom Mondays at 11 and in person Fridays at 10 am.
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Sue's City Dock CLASS in september |
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Join Sue Clements again Saturday, September 11th and 25th at 8 am for her outdoor class at City Dock! This class is a mix of stretching and core strengthening, designed to keep you feeling relaxed and injury free! Be sure to bring your own yoga mat and padding, a stretch strap and band. Clients will still be spaced 6 feet apart to keep everyone safe! RSVP early as space is limited!
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There are a lot more good people than bad.
Two minutes to brighten your day.
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From Dr. Steve Katz
August 1, 2021
The Fourth Wave
On Friday, a report circulating around the Center for Disease Control over the last week, became public. Recent research from Provincetown, Massachusetts, conducted over the July 4th weekend, shows, through careful contact tracing from attendees of a Holiday gathering, that the Delta virus variant spreads from vaccinated individuals to the unvaccinated population about as efficiently as if both parties were unvaccinated. The virus is capable, even in vaccinated individuals, of setting up shop in the nasal passages and upper airways and making itself at home like your kid in the basement, who just returned from college. In vaccinated individuals, it has a hard time getting deeper into the respiratory system, which is a good thing. But the load of virus in the upper airways is such that it easily spreads to others. The duration of infectivity may be reduced in vaccinated vs unvaccinated people, this is still being sorted out.
The implications of this are not good news for our unvaccinated friends. Right now, most of us are walking around in the Giant, smelling the cantaloupes, and tasting the grapes like the pandemic never happened. After all, we are vaccinated. Unfortunately, we are likely spreading the virus too, infecting the old lady on the scooter down the aisle contemplating her purchase of Little Debbie’s cinnamon swirls. The CDC says that the Delta variant is as infectious as Chickenpox, which is more infectious than Smallpox, or Ebola.
Though I am as guilty as anyone of living the fantasy that this is all over, it’s not. We are living in the mixed analogy of a cesspool and a time bomb all in one. Unless you become a hermit and never leave your house and never let anyone in, you will likely transmit the virus, even if you are vaccinated. A serious mask like an KN95 or N95 may help decrease transmission, but that mask you were wearing earlier on with the big, simulated lips, likely won’t help much. If you are vaccinated, you are not likely to get sick and even less likely to die. But you are likely to spread the virus once you have come in contact with it.
This situation is reminiscent of the first day of Microbiology class in my second year of medical school. The professor, Dr. Eyler, began his lecture with these words: “Folks, we live in a film of feces, and that’s what this class is about.” Except now, and for the next several weeks, we will be living in a film of coronavirus, Delta variant.
The good news is that this may be over sooner than you think. In the next few weeks you will be able to wear one of three tee-shirts. 1)I’m vaccinated, 2) I survived Delta or 3) I’m dead. (You can wear the last one under your suit or dress at the funeral home) It is likely that by the Harvest Moon at the end of September, you will fit into one of the above categories. Herd immunity will be achieved. And this fourth wave will be over. Unless there is another variant on the horizon, resistant to the current vaccines, there will not likely be a winter resurgence, because we will all be immune from being vaccinated or infected, or we will be dead.
So should you change your daily routines because of the spreading of the Delta variant? This is a complex question, because there is tremendous regional variation in viral prevalence in different parts of the country. Maryland currently has a rising level of virus (positivity rate of 5% as of the writing of this newsletter). The rate of change of viral prevalence in Florida seems to be doubling every day. Nationwide, cases have shot up from about 11,000 new cases per day in early July, to almost 80,000 now. The cases are likely grossly under reported because many vaccinated people carrying the virus are asymptomatic and are not getting tested.
As far as visits to the grocery store, etc., again current levels of virus are low in Maryland. All indications are this will change over the next few weeks. As the viral load increases, it would be a good idea to wear a mask in indoor public settings. I expect that we will see the other side of this infection curve in September, so the mask wearing this time should be short lived, as the population rapidly becomes immune. The appearance of a new, nastier variant could change all of this, but let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
As far as booster shots go, information emerging from Israel this week suggests that individuals over 60 who got vaccinated early on in January 2021, have less immunity than those that got vaccinated in March 2021 or later, due to the waning strength of the antibody response. Israel has started to administer booster shots to those over 60. The U.S. is likely to follow suit.
We are living in interesting times, and things are likely to get more interesting over the next few weeks. Stay informed and follow local guidance that will emerge from the Maryland Department of Public Health.
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Alcohol Consumption Has Spiked during the Pandemic. Could the Consequences Outlast the Coronavirus?
BU researchers say the answer may be to make alcohol “less attractive, less affordable, and less available”
MARCH 25, 2021
published in Bostonia, Jennifer's alma mater magazine
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In a year packed with bad days, that easier access to alcohol has caused drinking rates—particularly among women, African Americans, and parents—to spike. And the numbers were already pretty grim.
Before COVID-19, more than 25 percent of American adults admitted binge drinking, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. In the first few weeks of lockdowns, alcohol sales jumped 54 percent over the previous year. A September 2020 study in JAMA Network Open found alcohol consumption was up by 14 percent compared to 2019.
Alcohol is not good for your body either. Even moderate drinking increases the risk of high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, cancer, and liver disease. (Most people with alcohol-related ailments are not alcohol-dependent.) Every year, close to 100,000 Americans die of alcohol-related causes, whether from slow-burning diseases or split-second car crashes, making it the third biggest cause of preventable deaths: only tobacco and poor diet or lack of exercise beat it.
And while the opioid epidemic fight gets more headlines, alcohol use kills more people than prescription painkillers. And cocaine and heroin. In fact, it kills more people than all of them combined. It’s a pandemic we could prevent. So why don’t we?
“Alcohol is our favorite drug,” says Jernigan. “It’s also the drug of choice for people who write the laws. Alcohol is like wallpaper in our society: it’s so prevalent, people stop noticing it’s there.”
Ross, who was a marketing consultant before becoming a public health researcher, says companies have all the tools they need to reduce youth exposure to their ads and help cut underage drinking. His studies have found more precise audience targeting could slash the number of alcohol ads seen by 18-to-20-year-olds by nearly one-third—without denting reach among adults; a no-buy list, which includes the networks and shows companies should avoid when placing ads, would pretty much ensure zero commercials reaching kids. Ziming Xuan, who has also studied alcohol industry ads, says it’s time for legislators to step in—just as they did with tobacco.
In a 2020 study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Jernigan and colleagues found that if Baltimore, Md., scaled its alcohol outlet density down by one quintile, it would have 51 fewer murders a year. They discovered that even decreasing the number of ads in liquor store windows can help cut crime.
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Soprano and Arts/Health Advocate Renée Fleming introduces Healing Breath: a series of breathing exercises for anyone trying to regain breath after illness, in collaboration with The Kennedy Center and Google Arts \u0026 Culture. Learn more at g.co/artshealth For many who have experienced COVID-19, breathing is a challenge, one that can remain one that can remain difficult after they recover from the most acute phase of the illness. Renée Fleming, in collaboration with The Kennedy Center share breathing exercises with anyone trying to regain better breath after illness or with breathing disorders like COPD.
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New Additions to the AMS Fence! |
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Thanks to the folks at The Arc Chesapeake Region for creating these beautiful seahorses that SOFO was able to add to our AMS fence beautification project this month! |
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Next SOFO Drive In Movie Night September 24th |
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In case you miss this Friday, 8/27 movie, SOFO's next drive in movie on September 24th is Waterworld sponsored by Rehab 2 Perform, Movie starts at 7 pm music at 5:30 pm with Samantha Burgess and Ashleigh Goldstein.
Food and drinks available to purchase from Grumps.
First 20 vehicles welcome
or bring a chair and FM radio to listen in!
Bring an item to donate to local food pantry and put the date on your calendar!
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Boatyard Beach Bash
Sep. 11, 2021 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Get in a Key West state of mind as you listen to our Music Fest featuring:
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Scott Kirby is excited to be back at AMM! Kirby will be accompanied by Gabriel Donohue.
Florida-based singer-songwriter John Frinzi is back with #1 Country songwriter Aaron Scherz, Original Coral Reefer band member Roger Bartlett, Steel Pan player John Patti, and the top call rhythm section of Bassist Zebadiah Briskovich and Drummer Willie Rast.
Brendan Mayer, who has been featured as a member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band will have you singing the night away.
MC and Host Radio Margaritaville’s, JD Spradlin.
General Admission is $85 which includes 5 hours of great live music! The ticket also includes one meal ticket and 2 drink tickets.
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Warriors in the Park Music Festival in Annapolis to Remember the 20th anniversary of 9/11
Sep. 11, 2021 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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Join MC3 and Warrior Music Foundation for an all day music festival
Enjoy live music at StageOne at MC3 as we honor the strong veteran community here in Annapolis. The evening will feature bands including Veer, Sarah Paige, 1Identity, Mac & Blue, and more!! As we remember the 20th anniversary of September 11th , this event will also involve an evening candlelight ceremony.
In addition to the music, the day will feature silent auctions, multiple food and drink trucks, and local veterans organizations.
Come out and support WMF and MC3!
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31st Annual Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival
25
SEP
Sat, 10 AM – 7 PM
Susan Campbell Park, Dock St
Annapolis, MD
Since 1987. Featuring 80+ Arts and Crafts, Food, Education and Community vendors, 2 performance areas, Chesapeake Children's Museum Activity Tent, and more! The Kunta Kinte Heritage Festival is a family- oriented event celebrating the perseverance, education, and cultural heritage of African Americans, Africans, and Caribbean people of African descent. The festival features live music performances, dance performances, a children's activity tent and an "African marketplace" of food and arts and crafts vendors. Come to learn about history and culture in commemoration of Kunta Kinte's arrival in Annapolis in 1767 aboard the ship Lord Ligonier
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September 5th
Welcome to First Sunday Arts Festivals in Annapolis Maryland
We are celebrating our 20th year of supporting the local and regional arts community.
We invite you to attend on the first Sunday of each month (May to November) to shop up to 130 artisans, enjoy live music and cafe dining. Free Admission.
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Two Great Easy on the go Breakfast Recipes |
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