SEPTEMBER 2019
I'm happy to say my old garden shoes served me well throughout 2019 garden season .. broken down, dirty and tattered as they are. I may begin garden season 2020 with a new old pair of garden shoes. But old 'friends' are hard to say goodbye to when they have been close (so to speak regarding garden shoes) Rain and muddy flower beds force me to wear boots during the remainder of this season ... trimming, collecting seeds, turning over the flower beds, ripping out 8 feet tall sunflowers ... mmmmm, 2019 Garden, I will miss you and the beauty you have given so freely, only asking I deadhead blossoms once spent, water lavishly, remove weeds and harmful bugs and creeping destructive creatures. And off to the compost pile to begin the cycle of life all over again. Sleep well, 2019 Lawson Family Flower Garden. See you next Spring.
"Being Barefoot Benefits Brain Development"
Walking barefoot stimulates infants brains ... and the world is so new to them, each step is taken carefully - eyes downward to negotiate new territory ... often in bare feet.
I wonder how important going barefoot is at the other end of
the life cycle... old age. As well as facing the ground as we walk instead of head up straight looking ahead.
Most old people - and I am an old people - walk with face down watching for the objects that could cause us to stumble and fall. Logical. But perhaps it would be beneficial for seniors to go barefoot for the very reasons this article points out..... I won't go barefoot in my gardening rounds - too many rocks, and garden debris to stub my toes on .. But I do the next best thing: My garden shoes are worn and torn, thin soles, holes and gaps where stitching has come loose ...and dirty ..
Oh my are they dirty. Small pebbles and garden dirt easily find the soles of my garden shoes a good place to settle down into ... if left out in the sun and watered daily they would sprout daisies and sunflowers! I can feel the paths and and pebbles in my garden through my Garden Shoes. I will mourn their demise when it's time to bid them goodbye. Such a nuisance - it's so uncomfortable breaking in a new pair of Garden Shoes!
