Every day I walk to work. I consider myself one of the luckiest guys on the planet that I get to walk through Central Park in order to get to work. However, lately, I've been so busy that I have forgotten to stop and just look. There is this really amazing meadow in the middle of the southern part of the park called "Sheep's Meadow." The grass is as soft as you would dream grass should be... somewhere where grass doesn't have little sneaky sharp rocks or hidden hoards of fire ants and so forth.
You can walk freely in that meadow with nary a shoe or sock and the whole experience is almost a little bit odd. Odd and kind of thrilling. You forget how sensitive the bottom of your feet are and what emotions can come and go when those nerves are titillated by little vixen blades of grass. And even when I was a little country boy spending half my days fishing, I never walked ANYWHERE outside without shoes.
But today... I made myself stop and do something I always "think" I'd like to do but I never try. I walked into Sheep's Meadow (barefoot) and laid down on the grass under the tree without a blanket and watched the sun go down. I think I need to try that kind of thing more often. (If you are a fellow creature of habit, you KNOW how hard that really is.)
I put my shoes on for the picture. I promise you don't want to see my vampiric feet.
3 comments:
Wow man. Amazing, beautiful!
I know what you mean. I too growed up in Southeast Texas, and even before the fire ant invasion, the St. Augustine grass made you itch, and if it had been hot for a few weeks, it was kinda sharp-ish and uncomfortable. I went barefoot plenty, but my feets were like leather on the soles.
This is cool stuff. Good observations.
You are one lucky man. So blessed!
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