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The Sole of our Souls

     The foot is a body part talked about extensively over time. A common practice in times past would be to wash a person’s feet when entering the home. This was because we traveled barefoot, and we were simultaneously giving respect to the soles of our feet that carried us on our journey. Different areas of the soles of the foot are linked to different parts of the body. When we think of the surfaces that we walk on and what we walk on them with, we must recognize that these things have changed a lot over the last 50 to 60 years or so. Riding or living on a dirt road was common back in the days. Although it is recorded that paved roads existed since 4000 B.C., it took time for communities to be architecturally developed to have the interstates, highways, and street patterns that we see today. […]