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(i will be giving more depth to my profile by doing posts for each thing i wrote there. i will then link from my profile to each post.)

barefoot. that's my feet in my icon. in their most preferred state: naked.

here's a few links that support going barefoot:

Learning to Walk

shoes are bad and we should all go barefoot

The Barefoot Hiker

i walk barefoot whenever possible. i've been in supermarkets, restaurants, movie theatres, hiking up mountains, round disney, in malls, and in protests, barefoot. disney threatened to kick me out, actually! i've walked barefoot in snow and in long grass. someone said to me the other day, "where are your shoes? you'll get sick walking around barefoot..." when i asked why, exactly, i would get sick walking barefoot, the answer was a mumbled, "well, you'll get a chill" - in other words, they had no idea why they were telling me to wear shoes, just that it's "the done thing".

shoes, like clothing, started out as a protection from the elements. then they got taken over by consumerism and profit-mongers and oppressive forces wanting to dictate things. remember the asian women who made their feet deformed stapping them into teeny shoes? seen numerous people with bunions caused by improper shoes? seen all those women with horrendous back problems because they wore six inch stilletoes for years? shoes are not natural for our feet and are a weapon of oppression.

shoes = bad!

shoes = oppression!

go barefoot today. be free!

i like the feel of the earth beneath my feet. i like feeling connected to that earth. all the different textures of the earth are a delight to my feet. i feel the ground with my feet the same as i feel anything with my hands. direct sensation. my feet are nearly always dirty. i like dirt!

i do wear shoes, of course. i wear them in the winter nearly all the time. it sucks. i'm much happier when i can get socks and shoes off and go barefoot.

Date: 2008-05-06 08:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hippiedork.livejournal.com
Oh man, I ran everywhere when I was a kid. My grandma used to call me Speedy, after Speedy Gonzales, because I was fast but also hyper. Sometimes I wish my parents had put me in track, up until junior high I pretty much outran all the boys and girls in my school. Running was fun. Being old and out of shape, not so much, lol.

Man I need to retool my life a little. I'm doing it wrong! ;)

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