Tag: shoes

Wild stormy day

I think today’s a kitchen experiment day. After being up half the night due to the howling winds, I don’t fancy going outdoors, even though there’s a dairy around here that I wanted to check out. Oh well!
The plans for today include: sprout some black sesame seeds for tahini*, set up some other seeds for sprouting, make some vegetable juice for breakfast, work on a new painting, and finish a website redesign. Maybe make a pair of shoes for my buddy Jemma, if I have all the materials I need.

(*black sesame seed tahini sells in our local health food store for $19.99 a 16-oz. jar. The bag of seeds I bought cost $7.50, and should make plenty, plus by making it sprouted, it gains more nutritional value. Score.)

No Comments by Pocketina  /  March 13, 2010  /  Posted in: Daily Whatever
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barefoot-ish to the store

Wore my Vibram Fivefingers to the store this morning, to pick up the last few things we needed for Thanksgiving dinner. It struck me that it’s really hard to ignore the actual process of walking, when you can feel the ground; you experience the walk, with all of the ground-level feedback coming into your brain. It’s such a contrast to the time spent in shoes, with muffled terminals on the ends of our legs, that plod forward dumbly.

No Comments by Pocketina  /  November 26, 2009  /  Posted in: barefoot
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Update on the damn foot thing

I’m firmly in the camp of “the cure for shoes isn’t more shoes”. It’s just taking a very long time, and will continue to, for the issues I have to abate, and also for the changes in stride length and pressure (oh, let’s just say “Clydesdale-like stomping” that puffy shoe marshmallows have let me get away with) to kick in.
Today just feels like I’m still far from that goal. I’ve been working on it gradually since June, but the capsulitis was a setback.
Onwards! Ouch, and onwards!

No Comments by Pocketina  /  October 31, 2009  /  Posted in: barefoot
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