15
Mar

These Shoes Are Made For Walkin’…

shoesThat’s right, today’s Dreamer Monday post is about shoes–men’s shoes, women’s shoes, kid’s shoes, and even lack-of-shoes.

Now, before all you shoe lovers go crazy, I need to make one very important distinction. Today’s shoe chat is on more of a figurative basis.

*Turns a deaf ear to the massive sighing*

Okay, so here we go…  If you could walk in someone else’s shoes–past, present, or future/living, dead, or not alive yet– for just one day, who would it be and why? shoes2

Oh, and if there’s a particular moment you’d like to be wearing those shoes (ie, a pivotal moment in this person’s life), tell us that, too.

~Elizabeth

Quote of the day from Langston Hughes on dreams:

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore–and then run?

Or doe s it explode?

4 Responses to “These Shoes Are Made For Walkin’…”

  1. Dru
    March 15th, 2010 at 11:14 am

    I love this poem from Langston Hughes. My favorite o ne of his is “Mother To Son.”

    I would love to have walked in Neil Armstrong’s boots when he walked on the moon, only because I don’t think I’ll get the chance to do so and I would love to point out all areas on earth from up above. Maybe I’ll need to get a telescope for that part.

  2. elizabeth
    March 15th, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    I like that one, Dru. It would be cool to walk on the moon!

    I think I’d opt to fast forward to what I hope will be an older/healthy me. So I could see the joy on my daughters’ faces when they hold THEIR children for the first time.

  3. Lynn
    March 15th, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    I’d want to walk in Jackie Kennedy shoes. Before the betrayals, before the shooting, just when she thought she was the luckiest girl in the world to be First Lady – and got to wear all those really cool suits. Or maybe there wasn’t a time like that?

    Great question.

  4. Joe
    March 15th, 2010 at 3:57 pm

    Copernicus. Just a few minutes before he started thinking, “Hey, maybe we aren’t the center of the universe, after all.” That one simple thought changed everything that came after. What a rush that would have been!

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