my little brother is 40 years old! just returned from the birthday party. miles and rich were in the hospital clinic because miles woke up sick with gooey eyes, so it was just me and maya over to uncle mike's. surprise. then people began to trickle in, our old bandmates, julia and family from back in delaware, rebecca and emily, mike's old roomates from new orleans and ucsf and their offspring. one, two, three...9 kids taking over the living room dance party, maya shaking her booty in her cousin's yellow dress on the coffee table, then calvin with his pants down, emily being a nine year old ukelele rocker. there's maya being examined by edison the doctor, russell staggering around in his sister's tiara, mike making the same drunk joke to his friends "let me show you my big deck" as he escorts them outside. i am confiding with old friends about phobia therapy and the trials of motherhood. chris is single again and wearing glasses he says makes him look fragile and vulnerable and kim f makes an offensive joke and we stay too late surrounded by mounds of lasagna, sausage and garlic bread from lucca, crappy george thoroughgood on the stereo.
on the way home down 24th street, full of a huge number of people just walking around, tipsy grownups pushing each other on swings in the water park in the dark,people buying drinks and donuts and laughing at each other, maya has her first realization of growing up, and gets a little sad. "i don't want to be an old woman" she says with tears in her voice and i know how she feels but we talk it out. she says daddy will be her brother when she grows up and is surprised to hear that she and miles will grow up together. just like me and uncle mike.
lately all the california budget craziness and fears of being on bridges and tunnels and cliffs in earthquake country have been getting to me, making me imagine living in a quiet flat place with no earthquakes, a slow mellow land somewhere, but tonight it felt very right to be here, to have my kids growing up with their cousins, me getting to watch my brother's and some old friends' kids growing up, being just a drive across town from my little brother's 40th birthday party.
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Wow, baby brother just turned 40! Sounds like it was a great night and I hope Miles' eyes are less gooey today.
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