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Our main order of business is to give a barefoot video away –
but first we’ll get through some end-of-weekend randomness.
For our Random Shot of Beauty, I could have very easily gone
with a glimpse of another 80-degree November weekend that we enjoyed today …
but doing that for two weeks in a row kind of seems like rubbing it in. Instead, I’ll reach back a few weeks to our
family’s road trip to Zion National Park.
Since I couldn’t pick just one to choose from, you’re getting an
extended edition of RSOB – starting with this one:
A stately Joshua tree, as seen in the Mojave desert of
southern California. Would you believe
me if I said I used to live right down the road from here?
Sometimes I can hardly believe it myself.
Driving through the desert, it often seems like you’re in
the middle of nowhere – but that’s not entirely true. In fact, sometimes if you wonder where you
are, you only need to look down at the road you’re on:
And you’ll find that you’re right here, of course.
This next one is more of a Random Shot of Randomness … and it’s
also a chance for some audience participation.
Approximately 20 miles outside of Zion National Park is an odd structure
that will catch your eye:
It looks somewhat strange - and if you pull up closer, the
scene becomes even more bizarre:
Basically what you’ve got here is an old telephone pole
leaning into a dead tree stump … and the entire structure is covered top to bottom with
discarded shoes. Running shoes, work
shoes, women’s boots, dress shoes, kids shoes – pretty much every kind of
footwear you can think of is represented.
I wish I could tell you more about it, but I honestly have no
idea what the explanation is here. But it HAS
to have a cool story behind it, wouldn’t you think?
So let’s see if I can harness the power of the Internet for
something tangible: if any readers happen to know the story of this community
shoe mural, I’d love to hear it, and I might even publish it to share
with everyone else. The challenge has
been issued! Somebody impress me,
please – and who knows, maybe there’s a little something in it for you if you
do.
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OK then – it’s time to announce the winner of the Barefoot
Running Movie giveaway contest. Louisiana
Leah, e-mail me your contact info – you’ve won!
Thanks very much to everybody else who entered!
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