Barefoot on basalt: why I no longer wear shoes in the morning

Between seven and nine in the morning, when I'm outside, I wear no shoes. I walk barefoot on the stones in front of our house. Basalt grey, warm in summer, in winter right at the edge of comfortable. There is no mystical reason. There is a very practical one. My feet have spent fifteen years of professional cosmetology far too long inside shoes. Every time I spend thirty minutes barefoot in the morning, standing, walking, watering the plants, I feel my foot muscles, my ankle, my whole lower system remembering what it is for. The movement system of an adult is a long game. What I have on basalt in the morning is a very small, very regular investment. It costs nothing. It needs no trainer. And it has changed more in my body than any sports app I have ever used.