maybe silence is the way to go. this is an odd question, when you said i finally have a brother soon i am going to lose him. why do we love our siblings? no one with loves us better. william james often wrote about the core of self. that core of self is hidden from our parents. we hide from our parents but we don t from our siblings, they know every aspect of us. it is why they can drive us crazy, it is why when we have a problem, our impulse is to want our brother or sister right next to us. no one with could be closer. there is that pull. that pull is so powerful. it was a love story, always. do you think you knew that before you started writing this? i knew i had to be as close to my brother as i could possibly be. i am sure that pull is part of it. you have a daughter and stepson as well? i have 1 daughter and 1 stepson who i am close to. has this changed how you are around them as well? absolutely. my daughter casey has a half brother she is very close to
i might do a short theme where i describe what he looks like and this perfect them. if you want to revert to your texas voice. the last time i saw my brother, we had an immense fight. it was in his house in san antonio, i am describing, the book opens with this fight. this is sort of a picture of my brother at this exact moment. there are always apples around him, women, too. apple pie, big sheik antique bowls of wooden apples, read and golden, apples pencils, produce framed on the library wall, texas vegetables from the rio grand empire. i am an american first, then a texan he would say not understanding he sounded like auggi march. the clues are there, i later realized. a man s fate is his character. you always have to show off and tell us what you know, carl said. i ll be in washington next week i say. i have an interview, i have to close of peace. you promised me, you said you would stay away from washington state. you sat right here and said you would not go to the c
he was consciencious. he had a stack of clippings about what the new deal had done in his area and walked around while he showed me sidewalks and parks and schools and gardens and camps that had been done. he said, i didn t notice. then he became mayor. it s exactly the kind of thing we want. this is or was the living new deal site about a couple months ago. it s much denser now. san francisco county is the best documented of all the california counties. we think that all of california will look like san francisco now. when you begin putting in the work of the civilian conservation core, you find it s everywhere. we are talking about a lot of agencies. roosevelt loved building things. he was the lord of the manor at hyde park. it shows roosevelt in his convertible. if you visit there, you could see he could drive using the upper part of his body. he s pointing to the plans of the hyde park. he was quite a passable architect. once he became president, he was able to build a lo
runs through this book, particularly as he becomes more sick in the last part of it, you are the relentless, you are going to be okay, there is going to be hope, if i make enough contacts, i ll fix this. he is the almost unfailing despite his occasional request to you to help voice of it is not going to get better, deal with it, what did you learn over the course of that thing about the terrible tension between hope and reality acceptance when you are close to someone who has a terminal illness? that is such a hard question because the fact is they are so you. you are looking at yourself. it is impossible when your brother, sister, and 2 and a half years apart. i couldn t give what he was going through a reality. i couldn t see it for what with it was. it was catastrophic. now that i had my brother, i was desperate not to lose him. you hadn t had him until this. we had that cotten batting between us. we had a fierce attachment, when you are that locked together in this
apple? both and the way thing danagers come together, yeah. kind of astonishing, again working on the idea that everything is passed down in families is it or is it not or is it coincidence. my father had a difficult relationship with his father from mexico. we knew our family had this chain of nurseries from mexico. i never understood because my father would change tg subject when his name came up. our grandfather was an orchardist at the turn of the century. which you hadn t even known. i didn t know it until i discovered this at the archive when i was trying to page through all of these things. then i discovered an obituary that had been written about our grandfather when he died when we were much to young to remember him. it was very, very long in the texas at the time. it detailed every, all the rare plants, specimen plants, horticultural, introducing them to texas. i was so excited about all of this. i used to say to my brother, this apple thing, you have gotten