16 January

Having spent a week with a recurring bloody painful foot injury, I was reminded again of the expression ‘take the weight off your feet’. It’s the weirdest idea, that our feet carry our weight. As if ‘me’ somehow stops somewhere just above the ankles, and the weight of that me is then carried by my feet. Sure our feet are our dominant contact point with the ground. But they’re connected to the rest of us too, those forces are distributed throughout the rest of us, they don’t just sit in our feet.