Thursday, September 29, 2011

On Shoes

There are many uses for shoes. They can be used as protection for your feet, as a fashion statement, or, as something with which to crush a bug or finger. If you’ve ignored them long enough, you might discover that they serve as a home to a spider or mouse, which in turn will provide you with a need to go shopping. Stories also provide fascinating insights as to the importance and danger of shoes. They might divulge how you have spent your night dancing away, can be used to reveal your identity should you choose to leave a ball early, provide work for helpful elves, or provide an incentive to spending your time arranging ice blocks in attempt to spell something. In the extreme case, they even show the danger of becoming obsessed with shoes and how they may develop a life of their own. Yes, while only listing some, it can be seen that shoes have many a use and purpose in our lives.      

Sunday, September 18, 2011

On This Blog

“The Time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
                  -Lewis Carroll’s ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’

As the Walrus has stated ‘the time has come to talk of many things’ and thus begins this blog in which I will be writing on many things, such as shoes and ships and sealing-wax.