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| two days before his 2015 wedding |
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| Sean (L) with my ex-boss, August 14 last year, right after my heart attack |
Comparison photo with me here, from October 11 last year.
Sean and I look a lot like each other; David (the middle bro) looks like us but also a bit more like Dad. Sean's a professional cellist. David is a video-maker who works remotely from New Mexico at a PR firm based in DC (where he used to work before moving west). David's seven years younger than I am; Sean is ten years younger, so when we are all younger, those two, being closer together in age, would gang up against me. I represented something like a parental figure to them, and even though we three never got into any loud, knock-down, smash-up fistfights, we found endless ways to bug the hell out of each other, and there were plenty of moments when I was a straight-up dick to both of them. I'd take it all back now if I could, but I think there's still enough soreness among the three of us that the prospect of ever living under the same roof again for any amount of time is nil. I wouldn't mind living down the street from either of them if I had the cash. All that said, I love my brothers dearly, and if anything ever happened to either of them, I'd be as crushed as when we lost Mom.
I wish Sean only the best with his career. He relocated to a Chicago suburb a couple of years ago after spending most of his life in the DC-Metro area. After moving, he basically had to start all over again, building up a new network of private students, connecting with big and small local orchestras, forming new chamber groups, etc. He works pretty much seven days a week—the life of a musician earning his daily crust. I'm sure it doesn't help that he lives in a not-very-cheap-looking suburb of Chicago. But he's worked with a lot of famous people from Patti LaBelle to Pete Townsend to large, American philharmonic orchestras to famous European orchestras. It's a full, interesting, and pressure-filled life. I couldn't do it, frankly. Sean has my respect for all of his hard work.
Happy 46th Birthday, Big Boy!
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