Your Birthday

[Mommy]

Hi Darling,

Dad and I are on our computers, listening to music and sipping Scotch (yes, Michael, I now drink blended scotch with soda!) and Dad is sipping his favorite, Highland Park 18, a Christmas gift from Peter, Katie, Sophia, Finn and Charlotte.

I have composed an entire conversation with you in my head and now I will try to reconstruct my thoughts on paper...and that is the start...no more paper, only iPads, Lap Tops, Emails and texts. You are so missed, my darling son, and there are so many changes here on Earth that you missed. 

You had a Blackberry, aka Crackberry last you were here. Smart phones were not in existence but you were ahead of yourself and bought shares of Apple because, "Mom, they are coming out with a phone." Wow! Michael! Was that ever foresight! We still have your stock, up over 4,000 percent and it will help to put Sophia, Finn and Charlotte to college. Well maybe one year each as things are going now. Everything costs so much more. I know this is what you want. You did such a good job investing for me the small amount I gave you to work with. Everyone is amazed at what you did and they exclaim, " at only 25 years of age, how could he know how to do that?" And that makes me wonder how you would be and what you would be doing in our world today.

When you left us Bush was President. You left for your Princeton Junior year abroad in Spain just days before 9-11. You wanted so badly for us to come to visit but because of fear of flying at that time, we couldn't, didn't. So sorry now. We have been trying desperately to get to Barcelona to see what you saw. You called on my phone that I must come to see the Gaudy church. Your voice. your enthusiasm. Tears...

Bush got us into two horrible wars. Now we have new wars: Putin of Russia cruelly trying to take over Ukraine., and the 2,747 year old war from Amos in the Old Testament repeated today in Israel.

You missed Covid 19, lock down, fear of flying and endless vaccines. Still going. Dad and I survived. Our dear friend, Doug Delfeld did not. You remember our party at our house after your graduation from Harvard-Westlake, catered by Doug? So many lives lost.Oh where are we? I wish you were sitting in front of me and we could talk..But then we never did. You talked to your Aunt Judy. She would tell me. We had trouble. I don't know why. Me? Oh God where am I going with this?

You also missed Donald Trump. Lucky you. The United States of America will never be the same. Bullying is now the normal for kids in school. Lying, cheating, and putting himself above all else is the model he puts for them. And accepted and exaulted by so many. What do you think, Michael? What would you say/do if you were with us here on earth? We need help!!

We had aThanksgiving dinner here like old times. I know you know because I know you were with us. Remember our dinners of past? I now you do! We had your cousins Jessy and Chelsea, Greg, Benjamin and Danny, Aunt Judy and her friend, Mark, Nora, Tony and Joelle and friends you do not know, Ranate and Roger, your sister, Katie, Peter, Sophia, Finn and Charlotte I tried to create the past in the present. I think I succeeded . Grandchildren didn't want to go home!

Christmas Eve is a night alone with your dad. We had a lovely early dinner/lunch and we went to an early Christmas Eve service at our Friendship Church here at Sun City. That was a first in probably our married life and guess what!!!! there was an emergency alert and we had to vacate the building.What kind of a warning was that? I don't care.

I love you, Michael. I miss you and I think of you every day. I pray to you . And I know you hear me.

Mommy

[Danny Seo]

Happy birthday and Merry Christmas Mikey.  You are missed and loved brother.  

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mike Brownstein Fan Club" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mike-brownstein-fa...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mike-brownstein-fan-club/fdab07ff-d166-469d-acbe-48d75a20b270n%40googlegroups.com.

[Judy Brown]

Dear Michael, 

Thinking of you everyday as you live in my heart and soul always. You are so very alive within all of us. We spent a wonderful Thanksgiving with all the family. It was at your Mom and Dad’s house in the desert. You were with us every moment. Jessie, Chelsea, Katie, Peter, Greg, the kids, cousins, closest of friends, we all felt you there and love you so.

Aunt Judy

On Dec 24, 2023, at 11:39 PM, Danny Seo <dann...@gmail.com> wrote:



To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mike-brownstein-fan-club/CAKkPCC_ST8Xj%2B-M1%2BoARdaSvVO7mfbR2N9BtHbnESfHrLRHRWg%40mail.gmail.com.

[Sameer Gupta]

Mikey,

Happy Birthday! 

Got myself fitted for golf clubs for the first time, and promptly shot a personal best 76. Thought about you during the round to calm my nerves. Thanks for that. 

Anyways, as time passes I can’t help but think we get closer not further away. Not in some macabre way, but instead in the way that we are all spiritual beings, bound by a quantum energy. More and more, brain scientists are circling in on quantum forces controlling consciousness. Those forces don’t follow time’s arrow, allowing information to flow freely, jumping the fence of traditional logic, and combining with experiences past and future.

Between all that jazz and some legit movement in AI, things are interesting here in 2023, but no more interesting than when you were trying to surf the low waves in Goa, back in the day. Or we were prowling the streets of The Valley even further back. They are all bound by the same carefree curiosity that defines us. 

See you on the tee box soon.

With Love and Light Laughter,

Sameer

—

Sameer Gupta

---

From: 'Judy Brown' via Mike Brownstein Fan Club <mike-brownst...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2023 12:22:40 AM
To: mike-brownst...@googlegroups.com <mike-brownst...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Your Birthday

 

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mike-brownstein-fan-club/33DA4D08-3A62-4922-8F90-31165D0B713C%40me.com.