FORT LAUDERDALE SENTINEL SUN
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	  "Set your feet free and your mind will follow," says Paul
	Lucas, the founder of the Dirty Sole Society, a barefoot
	advocacy and support group with a home page at
	http://www.barefooters.org/.
	  The Web site Lucas has created contains such items as a
	current events page with real-life experiences and thoughts and
	tips having to do with 'barefootin.'  It also has information
	about the group's outings, which are held seasonally in various
	parts of the country.  These events are hosted by DSS members
	who put fellow barefooters up and pick sites to explore that
	are particularly conducive to shoelessness.
	  The DSS has over 60 members [at the time of this writing] in
	the United States and Europe.  American members tend to be
	clustered in California, New York, Virginia and Texas, according
	to Lucas (who is planning to move from a suburb of Chicago to
	California, where he feels the barefoot lifestyle is more
	acceptable).
	  Wherever they live, Lucas believes barefoot souls need to
	stick together.  "Some people view feet as ugly and smelly," he
	says.  "The only reason feet smell is because they are encased
	in shoes all day."

					-- Wendy Aron