Awaiting a New Beginning

Here in Gainesville, Florida, we have plenty of gators, including the University of Florida's football team. In 1908 merchants Phillip and Austin Miller introduced UF pennants with alligator emblems at their Gainesville store. Students started buying them and three years later, in 1911,the Florida football team began calling itself the "Gators."  

 

So of course an alligator was destined to appear among my totems to heal pandemic fears. Alligator Medicine heals by embracing and working through emotions so we can patiently await a new beginning:

 

And Gatorade? A UF football coach asked a group of doctors why the players were losing weight and having heat strokes during games. Led by Dr. Robert Cade, the doctors discovered the players' fluids and electrolytes were not being replaced, and formulated Gatorade, a balanced carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage, introduced to the team in 1965. 

Because they then became so successful (winning the Orange Bowl for the first time in the school's history), word spread to other teams, and then to the rest of the world (fifty years after the invention of Gatorade, the men who developed it, their families and friends have made more than $1 billion in royalties; UF receives a 20% cut, now up to $281 million).