The Long Brown Path

Peak-bagging, running, barefooting, exploring, and other minimalist adventures in nature

Bunny Fitzgerald’s Barefoot Manifesto: A Review

August 25, 2025 Barefoot KenBunny Fitzgerald, health, Meditation, mental-health, The Barefoot Manifesto, wellness, writing1 Comment

Bunny is a writer and jazz singer who’s built a following on Instagram (@bunny_fitzgerald) and Patreon (patreon.com/bunnyfitzgerald) by chronicling her barefoot lifestyle. Her new book, “The Barefoot Manifesto: How I stopped Wearing Shoes and Started Living,” is a deeply personal, lyrical, and forceful account of why she walks this interesting path. But the book is not a practical guide to foot health. Nor is it about style. Rather, Bunny positions the manifesto as a “book about freedom” with the key themes being personal sovereignty and the primacy of sensation.

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A Fresh Look at the Bhagavad Gita

January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 Barefoot KenArjuna, Bhagavad Gita, Krishna, Meditation, Renouncing fruits of action9 Comments

What use would a 21st century runner find in a 2,000-year old Hindu text?

In search of inspiration, I was recently reading the 19th century American Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, interested in their ideas about nature and self-reliance. To my surprise, I discovered they were both fans of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu scripture which I had read in college but largely forgotten.

After reading the Bhagavad Gita once again, I found its ideas intriguing, consistent with some of my ideas about training, and quite powerful: learn to still your mind, it advises, and you will discover that misery is unnecessary and action is effortless.

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