Bramley Famli

Currently, running has my attention in a large way. To be honest it’s not as much the running, as what running stands for, that’s got me all focused and interested.

Some of it is the idea that shoes, in their current fancy form, are probably not good for any of us. So I’m trying to go barefoot wherever I can in order to see if the re-occurring knee injury I get from running, goes away faster, and whether it’ll come back?

Another bit is that if we were ‘born to run‘ and we’re not, what does that mean for us as a species? In the book I spoke about 3 posts earlier, I read that in societies where running is still practiced there is a far lower incidence of things like, cancer, anxiety, depression, and a whole host of modern illness.

In an article in the New York Times Health section, there’s some interesting research being showcased around running, anxiety and the impact of exercise on the human brain.

It looks more and more like the positive stress of exercise prepares cells and structures and pathways within the brain so that they’re more equipped to handle stress in other forms.

There may be more to running than certainly I ever imagined. The long run to freedom continues…..

Found this article the other day from the New York Times, via Twitter (me thinks). Wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to be an interesting piece on the aparent strength of marriage in modern times. Anecdotaly I’ve assumed that state of marriage is not healthy. Perhaps I am wrong?

Despite strong social riptides working against it — the liberalization of divorce laws, the vanishing stigma of divorce, the continual online temptations of social sites like MySpace or Facebook — the marriage bond is far stronger in 21st-century America than many may assume.