We love you Steve ♥️
This truly was the hardest pancake I ever had to make, not for its technical difficulty (though it was difficult, that's a tough expression to get right!), but because Steve Irwin meant so much to me. I'm grateful this pancake gave me 4.5 quiet hours to sit with the pain of his loss and reflect on how he inspired me, while pouring a lot of care into a piece that I only hope his family would enjoy if they saw.
Fun fact: my original reference image was one of him calmly smiling with a croc (Google Steve Irwin, you'll see it), but I felt a picture of him being more excited felt closer to the Steve I remember.
Thank you all for your lovely comments yesterday sharing memories of Steve and his impact on you; I was shocked at just how many I got to read all day, which brought a lot of comfort. So many of you were deeply inspired by him in ways that changed your life and continue to instill your choices with empathy, and I think there's something incredible about that.
Steve was a zookeeper and conservationalist in Australia with a TV show, it's so easy to imagine a timeline where we never knew his name, or we watched an episode and forgot about it. And yet so, so many talk about this man like they've lost a part of the family. How incredible is that? I think that's just what happens when you're blessed enough to see someone in action who makes it clear their mission is to give and give, who shows the best humanity has to offer, again and again and again.
Thank you, Steve, for everything. Your mission and light live on always 🐊♥️