{"id":19285,"date":"2014-09-11T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T07:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=19285"},"modified":"2014-09-11T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T07:01:36","slug":"a-footwear-meditation-chic-feet-and-stylish-legs-on-the-go-at-sfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/a-footwear-meditation-chic-feet-and-stylish-legs-on-the-go-at-sfo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Footwear Meditation–Chic Feet and Stylish Legs on the Go at SFO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flip flops and flats heading for baggage claim. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Fashion week is winding down in New York City today. \u00a0I’m not in New York to report on that high-profile scene. But I’ve got some footwear photos I took–discreetly–of the stylish parade of legs, ankles and shoes rushing past me as I waited a very long 90 minutes for a flight out of SFO last month.<\/p>\n

How many minutes are there in a single a human life anyway? Roughly 52,560,000 if you live to be 100. That\u00a0 sounds like a big number, but it’s a finite one no matter how you cut it.<\/p>\n

There I was at the San Francisco airport, aging away, using up my minutes on being painfully early for the flight that would take Jon and me to Minneapolis and a visit with our son and daughter-in-law and their new house in the cityi. How to avoid squandering that particular 90 minutes of my precious milliions?<\/p>\n

By looking at things through the lens of my trusty point-and-shoot, of course. It was tucked away in my carry-on. Out it came. And with that, the scene that at the beginning of my 90 minutes had seemed a messy blur of people in a rush to be anywhere but here transmogrified itself into a work of art.<\/p>\n

There were all sorts of people inhabiting their moment in time at SFO that day. I took pictures of\u00a0 their bare legs, flashing ankles, but especially of their feet moving through the airport with intention and big summer plans.<\/p>\n

Who’s more fashionable — these women traveling through San Francisco on a summer day? Or the women of Shanghai on a hot day in September at “Shanghai Chic — Where a Woman’ s Style Starts With Her Shoes.”<\/a>\u00a0 Also — can a woman be too old for splashy earrings<\/a>? <\/em><\/p>\n

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Mother and daughter waiting at the gate. Photo by Barbara Newhal<\/em>l<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pumps and fashionably bare legs. My feet would be sticky in those shoes\u00a0Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hers and his sandals. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black skirt, polka-dotted carry-on. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orange sandals, paisley pants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White tennies with a hole in the sole.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tatooed: a line of music. Photos by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orange and gray sneakers — and lots of ankle — on the way to the gate. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pigeon-toed . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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. . . Bum ankle . . .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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. . . Brand new . . . Photos by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This traveller had one foot and one trendy jelly shoe. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heading toward baggage claim: I’m pretty sure it’s a guy\u00a0 Photo by Barbara Newhall
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A parade of fashionable traveling feet transformed itself into a meditation on the passage of time as I waited for a flight out of SFO last month. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[103,1311,34,566,1312,274,1289,82,1313,963],"class_list":["post-19285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-aging","tag-airport","tag-dont-miss","tag-fashion","tag-footwear","tag-meditation","tag-mindfulness","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-sfo","tag-shoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}