#shoe care
When She is out on a beautiful and sunny Sunday afternoon, yet She had so enthusiastically appointed you as Her Royal Shoe-Rack for the day, it slowly but surely settles in Your head what Your Goddess had said the other day, that if You wish to be an object for Her, just a tool to be used for Her comfort and leisure, then I should start realizing that objects are less important. Or was it that objects had no importance?
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I appreciate the time it takes to clean my boots. They’re all leather, so I prefer to wipe the dirt off first with a damp cloth. I work some wax until it’s warm, and apply it in very thin layers to the toes, up the vamp, the sides, the heel, the tongue. Around the rivets. I leave them overnight so that the wax can sink in. Some of my boots need blackening, so I rub in boot polish in little circles and likewise leave them to take their time. I take it all off again with a cloth in long, clean swoops, and angle them in the light to buff them. Polishing my boots takes at least two days, and there’s nothing I can do about it. No way to speed it up. Only an opportunity to be patient and reap the rewards of strong shoes that I’ll have for years and years and years. It’s nice.
