Happy Birthday Bill

June 2, 2023. Sunset 8:26 PM. San Francisco, CA.

Today would have been my brother’s 61st birthday. It’s hard to imagine him as a grey-haired man. Here we are in the summer of 2009 a few months before he passed away. He'd recently celebrated his 47th birthday, and he and my 2 youngest nieces had come out to stay with us to help renovate our bathroom. Bill had a particularly annoying time (using a toothpick) with clearing the mastic between some tiny tiles I'd chosen. I can still hear him muttering under his breath every time I go into the bathroom, and it still makes me laugh.