2-21-08 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Country Road
Posted by gavortnik on February 21, 2008
My brother Brian is my hero. He runs the theatre shop at Mesa Community College, where he builds sets for the theatre department. He’s always got at least three irons in the fire, it seems, yet he handles the constant pressure with grace and humor. He’s everything I wish I could be: confident, wise, articulate, funny, laid back, good with a power saw, at the center of a deep ring of friends and successful.
I really am in awe of him; all my cleverness and snarkiness pales before that easy smile and knowing nod that he has. No matter how bad my life is, I can at least look east, towards Mesa, Arizona, and say, “Well, at least my brother’s doing okay.” I can live and succeed vicariously through him.
My brother is also a Mountaineer (11-2 for 2007, can’t do much better than that). So his birthday present this year is the most overplayed jukebox song in Morgantown, West Virginia: Country Road.
Presented to you by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, of course.
Happy Birthday, Bri.
