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A Pair Of Israel Shoes
By Erin Israel
"Dear Lord,
In all Your infinite wisdom, You must have Your reasons for populating the Holy Land with ugly shoes. Far be it for me to question Your judgment. Perhaps it is meant as a test.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 teaches us that "To everything there is a season."
However, Lord, I humbly submit that there is no season for lime-green platforms. Yet Your servants willfully clomp around in these, and in thick-soled buckled shoes that are the footwear equivalent of nerdy eyeglasses.
Naot, the Israeli Birkenstock, delivers sensible, comfortable sandals. Caligula Shoes (a strange name for a store, when you consider that Caligula, the third Emperor of Rome, noted for his tyranny and cruelty, went nuts and died) offers fewer stylish choices and are currently touting a wickedly pointy series of boots. Gazit Shoes, however, offers the widest and most outrageous variety of pseudo-stylish Israeli women's footwear: shoes with four-inch thick rubber soles, tennis shoes with a ridiculous spike heel, shoes with spangles and splashes of neon, shoes with pointless straps and buckles and floppy little fake leather ties. Verily, they are a blight upon the land, not to mention the feet.
Your mysteries of the universe are truly numerous."
Source: Erin Israel. "Zoog nuh-a-LAH-yeem." A pair of shoes. (last viewed 6 November 2005) [FullText]
"Dear Lord,
In all Your infinite wisdom, You must have Your reasons for populating the Holy Land with ugly shoes. Far be it for me to question Your judgment. Perhaps it is meant as a test.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 teaches us that "To everything there is a season."
However, Lord, I humbly submit that there is no season for lime-green platforms. Yet Your servants willfully clomp around in these, and in thick-soled buckled shoes that are the footwear equivalent of nerdy eyeglasses.
Naot, the Israeli Birkenstock, delivers sensible, comfortable sandals. Caligula Shoes (a strange name for a store, when you consider that Caligula, the third Emperor of Rome, noted for his tyranny and cruelty, went nuts and died) offers fewer stylish choices and are currently touting a wickedly pointy series of boots. Gazit Shoes, however, offers the widest and most outrageous variety of pseudo-stylish Israeli women's footwear: shoes with four-inch thick rubber soles, tennis shoes with a ridiculous spike heel, shoes with spangles and splashes of neon, shoes with pointless straps and buckles and floppy little fake leather ties. Verily, they are a blight upon the land, not to mention the feet.
Your mysteries of the universe are truly numerous."
Source: Erin Israel. "Zoog nuh-a-LAH-yeem." A pair of shoes. (last viewed 6 November 2005) [FullText]
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