other worlds in the interstices

the gibbous moon, hanging bright, pendulous and silver, looked so sharply etched in the early evening sky, i was sure i was back in Maui. when i'm there, the rising of our lonely satellite is an occasion for wonder, as the tradewind-swept skies above Hawaii make for atmospheric clarity like nowhere else on earth. the moon is always so clear and so near, i feel like i can just pluck it out of the sky with my bare hands, fruit for the taking. and so it was tonight, over the Bay Area.

the day itself was pretty cool... spent most of it in the company of my newfound relatives. this time, Aaron brought his little sister Neri and older brother Ryan with him, and i took them around campus (the other two had never been to Berkeley before), and up and down Telegraph Avenue. we had lunch at the patio of Cafe Durant, then spent some time at Cody's Books looking for, uhm, books. ;-) Aaron is eager to learn Javascript, so i got the O'Reilly 'rhinoceros' book for him. and for Neri, who's as much a Harry Potter fan as me and my niece Nikki, i got Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series which, imho, is better than the Potters. hope she enjoys it.

i didn't know how much i missed cousins (and sundry other relatives, not including primary family members) until i met Aaron and his siblings. i do have cousins here in America, but they're in Illinois or Texas or San Jose (yeah yeah but San Jose sometimes feels like it's way down near LA, as it's so different from SF or Berkeley, despite the fact it still IS in the Bay Area). anyway, Aaron and his sibs are way cool, and i wish i had met them sooner. Ryan didn't know about ATDP at all, and graduated from John O'Connell HS last June, and is on his way to SF State this fall. As for Neri, she'll be here in ATDP for sure next summer, most likely in my class. As will my nephew JJ! That will be awesomely fun for me. I can hardly wait.

as for Aaron, it's beyond cool for me to realize how much i can see of myself in him. hard to really articulate for now... an assessment like this is just based on intuition anyhow. but basically, he reminds me of myself in some way i haven't quite put my finger on right now. something in his experience of school (straight-A kid but not really challenged), his penchant for books and reading... qualities that all put me in mind of how i was like in high school. something too, in the way he talks and carries himself, and of course the physical resemblance.

i can't help but feel, had i gotten married in my early 20s and had a male child then, that now-16-year old boy would look and act just like Aaron! *sigh* perhaps, in a parallel world. is it too much to hope for any of us to cross over once in a while to such parallel universes? any and all responses of a metaphysical OR a quantum physical type, will be welcomed. ;-)

Jul Sep

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