Who doesn't love a parade!?

Okay, okay. Maybe a better question to ask is "Who in the world still likes parades?"

Parades don't really fit the pace of our postmodern world anymore. They are intentionally slow-motion, repetitive, predictable, even (oh no!) historical.

Face it. There are few of us over the age of ten who really look forward to going to see a parade.

And be IN a parade? Don't even talk about it. How completely embarrassing. The trouble with being in a parade vs. being cast in a local play or standing before others as a spokesperson, committee-chair, or elected officer, is that when you process in a parade you are there to be yourself, not somebody else. Parade participants are there to put on public display an important part of their own identity. And the grand marshals o…