Tasks / Boots Made For Walking
Walk 5 miles in shoes you made yourself.
5miles = 8 kilometers
1 to 100 players
35 points
Level 2
In the zone of: The University of Aesthematics
Created by done
3 completed :: 20 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
Comments
Arguably the freakishly leathery soles of your feet are the shoes you've made yourself over the years.
Not freakish, natural.
Bare-footedness is the natural state therefore it is the compressed and deformed shoe wearers of the world with paper thin sole skin that are freakish.
I was born with abnormally wide feet which my parents could not find shoes to fit (without paying extortionate prices for custom made) and as a result I didnt really wear shoes until I started going to school. I have continued go barefoot whenever it is practical, it being much more comfortable.
The toes of my splayed chimp feet do not touch their neighbours at rest although I can bunch them up by clenching like a fist. The 'gaps' between my lower digits elicit revulsion in some - my friend Naomh dislikes feet in general so one of my favourite pranks is to sneak up behind her and grab her ankles between my big and first toes.
I feel a certain queasiness when I see feet that have been habitually squashed into footwear, for me it is the thin end of the wedge that leads to Lily Feet. So there :-P
Is the expression "a freak of nature" redundant?
The perimeter of Angel Island is exactly 5 miles, and it's nice and flat, good for walking in improvised footwear. Any other Bay Area players wanna collaborate on this one?
Praxis
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Hmm. This will be difficult on many levels.