From: Marrq Anthony
Subject: Free from the prison of WI...
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 16:45:51 -0800 (PST)

Hiyas,
	My trip back home wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be...
Although the temperatures were from -10 - 10 F there was no wind
what-so-ever... this allowed me to go everywhere either barefoot or at the
very worst with flip flops... the funnest part was that at least 3 other
times friends commented how cold their feet were, but they were actually
cool about it and rather than insisting my feet must be cold we
hypothesised how much better the circulation must be in my feet compared
to their circulation... likely one other benefit of commonly
barefooting... I've found my tolerance to walk barefoot about 2-3 blocks
in this cold, but as close to infinite as necessary with flip flops (which
gave me a bad blister on the top of my small toe, I'd almost forgotten
what blisters were like).  

One of the cool things was when I was with a bunch of friends at one's
girlfriend's apartment... I had gone their barefoot, and while we were
waiting to get in, I walked around in the snow... it was about just an
inch deep, one could see the top of some of the grass, so my prints stood
out decently well, and were quite clearly barefoot... later that night one
of the other people who lived their arrived and said, "You should all go
look outside, it's really cool, there are a bunch of *bare* foot prints
out there."  One of my other friends pointed out I shouldn't do this
any place closer to the boonies or the size of my feet might have a few
people hunting Bigfoot in the woods :)

But it's still quite nice to be back in more barefoot friendly terrain...
Oh, one thing that I've been noticeing lately is that I've only recieved
positive reactions to being barefoot since I've been painting my
toe-nails... I don't see the people who give my a nasty look any more,
just some who avoid any eye-contact what-so-ever... but, being a long
haired freak with a lip ring there is a decent amount of people who would
do that even if I were bowing to society's want for shoes... All in all
it's a nice effect, people are either nice to me, or do all they can to
not enter my personal universe.

	Namaste,
	Marrq

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