A Boy After My Own Heart

Here’s a story from the Hutchinson (Kansas) News Herald from January 1947. It’s about a barefoot boy who knows what he prefers . . . even in winter.

There’s a real contrast with the way this would have turned out today.

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Under the Old Oak Tree

In addition to their Daily Dozen, photos that readers send in, the National Geographic also does a Photo-of-the-Day. (This page does not use flash.)

A few days ago, it featured an ancient, really impressive oak tree, with four barefoot children on it.

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Sir, Are You Okay?

It’s funny how we tend to orbit our comfort zone. We get used to doing things a certain way. We go to the same places; we mainly shop the same places.

I suspect that’s particularly true when one regularly goes barefoot. You’re just interested in getting your stuff done, so you go to the places where you haven’t been hassled before.

But it is also true that we tend to exaggerate in our minds the possibility of attention. Even in new places, it doesn’t happen much.

But there are times when it can be a real surprise.

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Russell Brand. Scofflaw?

No way. It’s just the usual set of ignorati.

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Magazine Profile — Alan Bruens

Back in June, fellow barefooter Alan Bruens was profiled in the Advertiser-News (North). He’s now moved on to bigger and better things: New Jersey Monthly Magazine.

In addition to being a nice article, this one has a killer caricature of Alan

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Corns? No, Cornells!

Here’s a very nice video story from the Cornell Daily Sun, which is the student newspaper at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

It entitled, “Campus Trends: Students Trek Through Ithaca Without Footwear”.

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Catalyst

ABC TV in Australia has a very good segment on science called Catalyst. They recently did a segment comparing barefoot and shod running, and did an excellent job showing the science and highlighting the differences.

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More From the TV Archives

Here’s another “historical” news story about barefooters.

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From the TV Archives

I thought folks might like to see a news story from near the beginning of the barefoot movement.

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Newspaper Profile — Alan Bruens

The Advertiser-News (North) in northern New Jersey recently had a very nice story about fellow barefooter Alan Bruens.

We got a glimpse of Alan from when he visited the Grand Canyon a few months ago and had an issues with their shuttle buses.

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Wrong on Both Ends

There was a recent article, I’d like to put the boots to the notion of barefoot healing, in the London Free Press that took issue with a press release about the benefits of going barefoot (and promoting a business putting on workshops around it). However, the press release made a big deal about “earthing”, which I criticized in Eye on Ions.

In my piece, I noted that one of the bad things about touting new age quackery such as “earthing” is that

there is also another crowd that we need to convince, people like doctors and podiatrists. If we spend our time touting things that are obvious nonsense to anybody with a bit of real scientific training, they will end up deeply suspicious about all of our other claims about the benefits of going barefooted.

The recent article tried to do that.

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Heels and Cads

Yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch had an interesting story about high heels: The higher the heels, the greater the dangers.

It was actually pretty good . . . mostly.

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Colorful Characters — Rob Bredl

Rob Bredl is today’s colorful character. He is well-known for his various documentaries/television shows.

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Eye On Ions

There was an interesting and informative article recently on the MindBodyGreen website entitled 7 Health Benefits of Going Barefoot. It is always nice to see these sorts of articles.

Well, almost.

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Internet Radio Interview

I was interviewed yesterday on the PEDAL Hour, part of BlogTalkRadio.

The interview went for a full hour. My how time flies when you’re having fun
(and is WAS fun!).

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