Modern Shoes Are Pretty Terrible For Our Bodies

Ken Lane
3 min readSep 16, 2020

There are few things more liberating than kicking off your kicks in the backyard and letting the piggies roam the grass. However, if you look at an old person’s shoes in the developed world, they’re more akin to a medical device. This is odd because when you look to cultures that have maintained connections to their past, they can walk in the most minimalist of sandals, if not barefoot, for miles and miles…

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Ken Lane

I’m just a fella chronicling his attempts to live purposefully while finding contentment in the simple things.