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It really is good to know that there are people like me out there! A friend told me of the article in the paper about Barefoot Walkers so I just had to search you all out. Do any of you live in the Bristol, UK area?
I have been going barefoot ALL summer for the last 30 (Yes, THIRTY!) or so years. For at least the last 15 of those I have only worn shoes to ride my bike. I have been self-employed for the past 22 years so I can even work barefoot(!), but even before that I was known as Barefoot Brian. I go everywhere barefoot, even though I do get some odd stares - but at least I get to talk to loads of people.
Some people think that I am crazy, I just say I am a little eccentric - and the world needs as many eccentrics as it can get!
Keep on barefootin'
I have been going barefoot ALL summer for the last 30 (Yes, THIRTY!) or so years. For at least the last 15 of those I have only worn shoes to ride my bike. I have been self-employed for the past 22 years so I can even work barefoot(!), but even before that I was known as Barefoot Brian. I go everywhere barefoot, even though I do get some odd stares - but at least I get to talk to loads of people.
Some people think that I am crazy, I just say I am a little eccentric - and the world needs as many eccentrics as it can get!
Keep on barefootin'
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Tue, June 7, 2005 - 10:18 PMIsn't it great to know that you are not alone? Barefoot walking puts us back in touch with Mother Nature. When we can feel the surface over which we walk, an additional dimension is added to our lives! -
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Wed, June 8, 2005 - 8:54 AM....staying in touch with the eternal is how I like to put it..... -
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Wed, June 8, 2005 - 7:00 PMThe motto of my barefoot hiking club is "soles in touch with nature".
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Mon, September 5, 2005 - 10:52 PMYea... I just found this tribe... and it's cool to me to see so many others like me... as long as it is warm enough... I am always barefoot. -
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Wed, October 5, 2005 - 10:07 PMI am a nanny and when we go to the playground I take off both mine and the litle fellow's shoes..it feels so great!!!!!!!!
Unfortuantly people look at us strangely..
Nowdays people tend to get further and further from the Mother Natur..
Moms ask me if I wash our feet after we get home..
Who cares?? We are here now, barefeet!!!
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Fri, October 7, 2005 - 10:45 AM*bare feet*
i want my feet
to smell like earth
i've always thought
pedicures were
ridiculous anyway
give me feet
tough with barefoot wanderings
and the soul
soft and enlightened
through commune with Spirit
and Earth
the Great Mother
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Fri, November 25, 2005 - 12:37 PMaww i love this. beautiful! i totally feel the same way. =D
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Sat, November 26, 2005 - 7:35 AMI was just thinking of writing something like this when I saw your post. :) The sense I feel is profound gratitude. I grew up in Manhattan, and throughout my childhood I walked barefoot whenever I could get away with it. Like a firewalker, I gradually taught myself to handle black top, taking rests on white lines, using the sensation to alter my perception of discomfort. I hated shoes, and shoe laces. (Although there was something about boots that seemed ok) Its only now, in my 40's that I've developed a small passion for high heels. Ah well, we all get corrupted.
As I was growing up, I remember that I lost friends becuase of my wildness - dear friends. But that never stopped me, its primal, perhaps genetic...we wild Irish. -
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Tue, December 27, 2005 - 5:24 PMYeah, like everyone else, I find value in the silly sensual and the squishy delights of warm mud and wet grass, etc., but for me going barefoot is rejecting the main element of this self-important pumped-up facade we build around us with the clothes we wear and the shoes we step into. Plus I don't have or ever want to have the contempt most people have for bare feet, especially their own. Its no particular surprise either when you see in a public shower or on the beach the many knarled and twisted results of forcing one's feet into tight shoes and boots over a lifetime. For many the question comes down to whether one can still be the Marlboro Man sitting a top that horse with no more that a couple of humble bare feet stuck in the stirrups? -
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Fri, February 3, 2006 - 7:30 PMWow. Eveyones talking about what I've been doin all my life. Is there any other way?
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Fri, February 3, 2006 - 7:32 PMCool. I've been doing it all my life. Is there any other way? -
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Thu, March 2, 2006 - 12:12 AMyeah being barefoot is an excellent way to be in tune with ones surroundings and with nature . Here in New Zealand it's no big deal especially where I live in the northern North Island where the mild climate is barefoot friendly that it's possible to be this way practically all year without too much discomfort .
Long may it be so - barefooters rock ! ! !
cheers
Gordon .
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