The Button Collection

I really envied my brother’s button collection

Hallway buttons, 1987

My older brother had a button collection. The 11-year-old me thought his buttons were really cool and funny (Woodstock Peace and Music…“TGIF unless YOOS” — ‘you’re out of Schlitz’ … and “Keep your temper, nobody else wants it.”) and when he left them after going to college, I moved them into my room. There was one that I just stared at, but…