These kinds of institutions seem mothballed in the nostalgia of simpler times. Something our parents did, you know, older people. Do me a favor for this week, ask "older people" how old they are in their minds. Andy and I will tell you our punk rock days were just a couple of months ago, maybe a few years. Definitely not 30. That's not to say we're living in the past. It's that our thinking, our passion, our love of life is rooted in the values we established then. We still feel that way. In part, those values embrace what is pure in our culture.
Public service is definitely one of them. The original DIY. So when the Lions Club has a pancake breakfast some Saturday, throw down $5 and live in the past. We'll all get there someday.
This is the Stoikoff family with their patriarch Boris. They've been working the pancake breakfast for 33 years.
Love the photos, love the thoughts! I remember being surprised when Andy joined up, because he's not, y'know, an old guy. And I just now realized that he was exactly the right age to sign on to a group like that, and it's a new(er) generation.
ReplyDeleteI used to think it was strictly a vanity thing that some women were stuck at a perpetual 39 in birthdays, but I understand it now.