This was on the local news today about a high school student going barefoot for a month. Thought I'd share. http://www.9news.com/news/local/art...oing-barefoot-for-a-month-to-raise-awareness-
Whew... when I've read that the school is in Littleton, CO, I first had "Columbine High School" on my mind... But he's doing this to raise awareness on a differnent matter... A nice way of doing so, even though bare feet might not be connected to child sex trafficking and the abuse of children world-wide in this. Quoted from the article: " Cobi felt a calling. "This is a message between me and God now, saying, 'You can do hard things,'" he said. "Do Hard Things" is a theme at the school. "I think in our culture, talk is cheap," Brent Glossinger, the school's director of discipleship, said. He says Cobi's journey is part of a life lesson. "It got a hold of him. He realizes it and says, 'Man, I can make a difference,'" Glossinger said." Well, bare feet can become a sign of trying to change the world... just like in the good old hippie days, isn't it? Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~
People who do this kind if thing to "raise awareness" for whatever, really only perpetuate the idea that barefoot = poverty, poor, abused, neglected, etc. There are plenty of ways to raise awareness about various things. But IMHO going barefoot is not a way that we, as barefooters for health and other reasons, should condone.
I was barefoot and bare-bellied, wearing a sarong, when I came to a nice place where I wanted so sit and meditate... some one who does not See has littered the place with trash - mostly chocolate bar wrappings, used paper hankies (kleenex-like stuff), a clearly used condom (I hope they had a nice time there... it's a beautiful place not only to meditate in) and a supermarket plastic bag. I took the bag, picked up the trash, went to a nearby trashbin, and went back into that special place to do my barefoot meditation and breath exercise... I did not have someone post this in a newspaper, but I was on a little hippie mission of my own, then. Trash... The tree, under which I sat and meditated... Feeling the now clean place... But it wasn't for charity - just for good karma. That Cobi person is also on a mission of his own, and a spiritual one, too, since he claims to have received it from his communication or even communion with God. Hey, why not? If he finds a partner, they could be the barefoot Blues Brothers... "we're on a barefoot mission from GAWD!" Wiggling bare toes, ~*Ganesha*~
