People ask me “where do I get my ideas?, how they come?, how I’m inspired?, when?” In response I quote Goethe “Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different people, a thousand different things”. Over the last month or so, as I would put on my shoes I would reproach myself for the lack of condition I saw.; leather you know. Today, as I was finally saddle-soaping them, the thought came to me that footwear must have been of primary importance in apparel when we decided to trod this Earth. Islander.