It’s Spring and a Girl’s Fancy Turns to. . . SHOES!
by Linda ~ March 23rd, 2008
What woman hasn’t rewarded herself, cured a bad mood, celebrated a triumph or replaced chocolate by buying a pair of new shoes? Carrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends on Sex and the City demonstrated on a regular basis, how focusing on their shoes made them feel better. Celebrations around shoes are everywhere: the movie In her Shoes is about sisters and shoes; QBC has a shoe sale to raise funds for breast cancer. Oprah talks about shoes in one out of five of her programs. Shoe shopping with girlfriends is just about the best time you can possibly have.
On an Oprah show in the not to distant past, a woman told about purchasing a pair of Oprah’s shoes on one of Oprah’s clothing and shoe auctions to benefit chairty. The woman took the shoes home and stood in Oprah’s shoes for inspiration when ever she was depressed or blue. She reported that it helped her to “keep movin’ on.”
Shoes are an exquisite metaphor for both the path in life you are walking and the attitude with which you walk. This spring buy a new pair of shoes to kick butt in, take a leap of faith in, hit your stride in, put a spring in your step; pick your metaphor for what you need support to do. The shoes will act as an anchor or reminder that you are indeed a woman to be reckoned with.
The Power of Rituals authors filmed the Shoe Shopping Good or Shoe’n Tell ritual at Nordstrom’s shoe department at the Park Meadows Mall in Denver. We hope it gives you ideas for celebrating a birthday, anniversary, promotion, job change or whatever is needed with our girlfriends. Also thought this amusing little video from YouTube might give you a different take on “Spring Shoes.”
To quote Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, “There’s nothing wrong with having bags under your eyes as long as you have shoes to match.
Linda Ann Smith
Author, Speaker, Ritual Expert
Power of Rituals