Feet

I recently broke my foot when a redgum railway sleeper fell on it. I have had to rest my right foot and have it pressure bandage. Call me skippy, hopalong or clubfoot if you will. I am coming to appreciate my humble little foot(haha not really I have big clown feet)- whose Metatarsal bone I have broken. The bone will take six weeks to heal. Did you know there are 33 joints in the foot? Did you know there are three kinds of walking which animals can be categorised under?


1. plantigrade (sole walking) 
2. digitigrade (toe walking)
3. unguligrade (nail walking)

      “Better slip with foot than tongue”- Benjamin Franklin

Feet in art

Girl drying her feet after bathing- Degas

The Arab pulling a thorn from his foot - Bannet

Feet in Fasion/Crazy mental shoes

Alexander McQueen

Famous foot Fetishists

Ted Bundy*

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thomas Hardy

Elvis Presley

Quentin Tarantino

Andy Warhol

David Williams

*Technically infamous - thankyou to Ian Mitchell for his helpful pedantry- Funnily enough this links to the next section of my rant

Etymology of the word Pedantry

Pedantry - Pedantic- Pedant- meaning someone who is very particular in the transmission of correct facts and knowledge

Linked to the word Pedagogue meaning teacher and hence the discipline of teaching referred to as pedagogy

This stems from the Latin name for a type of servant whose job it was specifically to lead the children of the family to school etc

the act of leading is therefore kinetically linked to FEET the act of using ones FEET in the act of leadership

Hence the root PED is seen in words relating to feet, teaching and learning, children and leading.

The reason children also are symbolically aligned to feet is the symbolic configuration of the family/societal system relating to the body with the Father/mother being at the head of the family and the children being the lowest part of the family- the feet.

...."At first, it was fun to pick the berries. The children enjoyed being out in the sun all day and running barefoot and having a good time while they worked... The sand which looked so white was really black underneath. It clung to the berries, it soiled bare legs and feet, hands and faces, dresses and overalls."

- Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski

At the moment my right foot is all bound up with bandages.

I like my feet when they both work good.

Feet are beautiful- you realise this one when one of them gets broke good n proper.

The Dead Weather- Sixty Feet Tall