Pictures Of Our Beloved Siblings

[Sugar Smack]

It's holiday time. My brother, whom I love dearly, lives across the continent from me. But we're so, so close. I wish I could see him more often. We had a little spat a week ago over the phone; just a little one, but neither could live with the bad feelings for a week. He called me and we made up.

I'm posting a picture of my beloved brother. This was taken in Paris by Dad of the two of us. I get to see both Dad and Eric at Xmas.



Please post a picture of yourself with your brother and/or sister. I'm dedicating this thread to you, Shell Beau.

[July]

1. Awwww. You're making me miss my sibs.

Unfortunately, I can't show you my favorite pics of us, because I'm a computer moron (moran?).

[Sugar Smack]

15. No worries, babe!

Are you far away from them?

[July]

36. One is far, two are sort of far.

And, very hard for us, one died a few years ago.

[Sugar Smack]

63. I am so sorry, July.

I am so sorry. I wanted to dedicate this thread to young Shell Beau, who lost her brother too. It's really hard when you spent your childhood with someone who disappeared.

[July]

69. Thanks, Sugar Smack.

We were very close in age ("Irish twins") and did a lot together and with our other 3 siblings. You never get used to their absence. Your post reminded me of that special something between sibs that can't be wrecked by a spat. You and your brother look great together, and I'm happy for you.

[no name no slogan]

2. I'm an only child

but I LOVE that pic of you and your bro! :loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

64. You're so wonderful.

Before I knew, I'd assumed you grew up with sisters because you understand and LIKE women so much.

[Lavender Brown]

3. Me and my sistas

[Sugar Smack]

5. Oh, Lavender Brown, that is Breathtakingly BEAUTIFUL.

You all look so close and in league with each other. Sometimes, I wish I'd had a sister, but my bro is doing his job wonderfully.

Do you get along as well as you look like you do?

[Lavender Brown]

7. Sometimes...

sometimes not so much. They are both a bit older than me, so they act more like second and third mothers.

edit: this portrait was taken last Thanksgiving, as a gift for our parents.

[Jamastiene]

6. Whichever of

the three you are, you are very beautiful. :hi:

[Lavender Brown]

8. thanks!

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. HOLY SHIT!

:hubba:

Truly, that was my first reaction seeing the photo. HOLY SHIT!

Nice family.

:pant: :drool:

[Ptah]

4. From nearly fifty years ago.

It was for our Christmas card that year.

[Sugar Smack]

9. FIVE beauties!

Do you get along well?

[Ptah]

14. Yes we do.

Father Mother Sister and I will be at my sister's
home for Thanksgiving.

:bounce:

One Brother is in Illinois, another is in California
with their respective offspring.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Ah my dear Ptah.....

What a rascally cute little guy you were........and still are, IMHO...

I LOVE this pic!

Back row, top right, correct?



:loveya: :hug:

[Ptah]

17. Yes, with my best Eddie Haskell grin.

Hi Peggy.

I'm working on posting some sunset images I grabbed today.

What snew?

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Oooohhh ..you have sunset pics too?

I JUST NOW started a thread with some I took last evening.....

I'll show you mine.....you show me yours!

:blush:

Photos, that is........:loveya: :hug:

[Ptah]

19. I mispoke. They are sunrise photos. link here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4316976&mesg_id=4316976

:puffpiece:

[Left Is Write]

11. What a lovely picture. You might find this amusing...

He resembles my brother-in-law, who also happens to be named Eric. My son looked at the picture and said, "That's Uncle Eric!"

I'm also very close to my little brother, and I can't stand being so far away from him. We call each other frequently.

I miss the days when we lived nearby. He had a job that took him all over the Twin Cities, and if he was in my neighborhood, he'd stop by to see if I was baking bread or cookies. Or he'd drop in for lunch and I'd make his favorite macaroni and cheese. I can't tell you how much I miss that.

[Left Is Write]

13. I found this picture on my hard drive...

I thought I had a scanned picture of the five of us siblings on Christmas Eve 1985, but I can't find it.

I did find this one. I'm not in it, though. From left to right, my little brother, my little sister, my grampa, and one of my older sisters. My brother looks about 5, so I'm guessing this was taken in about 1976.

[Ptah]

20. Beautiful photo, Left Is Write

Your Grandfather's face seems to reflect a life well lived.

:thumbsup:

[jeanarrett]

49. Boy, my heart about stopped beating when I saw this...

Your older sister with the glasses bent over writing looks exactly like me about 1976!!! I'm not kidding, I thought it was me for a minute. Same hair, glasses, nose, gangly frame, everything. If I knew how to post pics here, I'd prove it. BTW your little brother and sister are precious and Grandpa either made them laugh or they made him laugh!

[Sugar Smack]

81. Go to Photobucket!

Register there, give a username and give them any password. Put a picture on your desktop, a small, 72 dpi JPEG. In order to have a picture show up here, you have to click the word "browse" in the program. It will pick up the name of your picture when you submit it. Then hit the button that says "submit".

When you've done that, you'll see your picture turn up on the website. Double-click on that. If it's huge, it'll show up huge when you click on it. You have the option of editing that.

Finally, right-click on the picture itself. At the bottom of the menu, you'll see "properties". Highlight that info, copy it, and then when you're writing your message to DU, just paste it in the body of the message.

I hope this helped!! I would love to see your picture! :hi:

[Sugar Smack]

26. Oh, Left Is Write, thanks.

The nostalgia chokes me up a little this time of the year, because we're all SUPPOSED to be together (in my idealistic vision).

"I'm also very close to my little brother, and I can't stand being so far away from him. We call each other frequently."

That's us too, LIW.
:hug: :hug:

[ignatius 2]

12. Beautiful,the call and the picture. Happy holidays to you and

your family,glad to hear there is harmony.

[Sugar Smack]

27. Thank you, ignatius 2.

To hear my brother's voice softened by time and perspective gave me a lift I can't describe. The down sides are few and far between.

:hug:

[KitchenWitch]

21. I have no siblings.

:cry:

[Sugar Smack]

28. But you have US!!!!

Whatcha think about THAT? :D

[KitchenWitch]

35. It's all good!

:woohoo:

[Archae]

22. Here's all 5 of us brats.

Myself, (I'm the ugly one on the left,) :-) and my 4 sisters, 2 younger and 2 older.

[Sugar Smack]

29. Didn't you mean to say

The cute guy on the left? I thought so. All of you look so close! Thanks for that picture, Archae.

[In_The_Wind]

23. Sugar ~ This picture of you is awesome!

I'm glad you will all be together for the holiday.

[Sugar Smack]

30. Thank you, honey~~~

Are you going to be home tomorrow evening??

:toast:

[In_The_Wind]

33. Yes ~~~

[Sugar Smack]

34. Good. I can't sleep right now, but I'd love to give you a ring

tomorrow. Maybe I'll crash for a couple of hours!

I hope. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[Dude_CalmDown]

24. Me, my sister, & my little brother.

It's at least 5 years old but I can't seem to find any recent shots of us together.

[Sugar Smack]

31. WOW.

:wow:

What a beautiful family! Are you all like that IRL? I love pictures like these. You look so happy, DCD. Your sister is precious.

[Dude_CalmDown]

73. In all honesty...

My little brother looks exactly the same, my sister is still precious but with a few pounds added, and I somehow look much better than I did there (sorry, I'm honest but not at all modest). My parents are good looking so I guess we had no choice. Anyway there are pics where we all look better but none that I like so much. This one always hits my heart because they surprised me with a visit when I really needed some cheering up and managed to bring a smile to my face for the first time in weeks. Every time I see this pic, I have to call them both.

[Sugar Smack]

82. LOL! I happen to know that you're the beauty in the blue cap.

And if your sister weighed 300 lbs she'd be a heartbreaker. It doesn't matter. The three of you have the same wonderful eyes and devilish expression. I envy your closeness. I know how you feel when you say you look at that picture and want to call them.

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[tjdee]

76. You're all so good looking and kind looking.

:cry:

Very nice.

[swag]

25. Excellent pic, SS. Your brother is as fetching as you are,

hard as that standard is to attain.

Here's an already posted digital pic of an oil painting I did for my parents of my brother and me in the Black Hawk Park neighborhood of Madison, WI in 1965. Mom sewed the jackets and took the snapshot on which this painting is based. And Dad once tied an empty pepper can to my trike and told me it was the carburetor. I was so proud of that carburetor on my trike.

I hope there are enough levels of abstraction here to please everyone. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.

[Sugar Smack]

32. Swag, You know I love that painting you did.

You're fantastic. You're the one in the blue shirt, right? And are you the older or younger brother? I'm sure you've told me.

[swag]

38. ;

I'm the fat little fuck on the right.

Your bro is coming home for Christmas or you and your dad are going out his way?

[Sugar Smack]

45. We're heading to Cali!!!!

And I can't wait. I like me a blue Xmas.

[swag]

52. Dag.

You're sure racking up the frequent flyer miles these days.

[Sugar Smack]

66. Yes, for someone who requires horse tranquilizers

before boarding a plane these days.

[enigmatic]

92. That's a fantastic painting

Seriously, that's at once haunting and moving as well. Great job:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Me and my brothers ca. 1989

They both live in California, and I miss them so. The darker haired one is the daddy to a brand new baby boy! The lighter haired one is the happy daddy of two little girls. I call them Rose Red and Snow White, because one is as dark complected as the other is fair. :cry: Gosh, I hate this time of year for missing people.

[Sugar Smack]

46. Mrs. G, you're choking me up. What a beautiful family you have.

Life is so short, and sometimes, around the season, it doesn't seem fair that our "doses" are so short lived.

:hug: HUGS to you, MrsGrumpy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

56. It's way to short. I found that out when I was really sick in the I.C.U.

last year...and my mom called them up and made them cry. I wasn't able to tell them it was going to be okay. :( they are great guys who have always looked out for their little sister. :hug: Although I think they like my husband more now. He's more fun to play with.

[Sugar Smack]

67. I've always liked how grounded you are.

God, I'll bet your sense of humor gets you through some tough things.

:hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

72. I'm not worthy of you being so nice to me.

I can be a real pain in the butt. Ask MrG. When I found out my trip to D.C. wasn't going to happen I was not much fun for quite some time. Sugar Smack, I admire the way you always have something nice to say...always. :hug:

[Mutley]

39. My sister and me when we were kids...

I'm the baby. :D

[Sugar Smack]

47. You're so CUTE.

OMG, that is a perfect mix of admiration for your big sister and a sneaky idea tugging at your pretty little head!

:loveya:

[Mutley]

54. Lol! That's exactly what my mother said.

:D

Thanks.

[July]

70. I recognize that couch!

What year are we talking?

[Shell Beau]

40. Sugar Smack--You are sooo sweet!

Thank you!! :loveya: :hug:



I wish I had more to show, but as I have said before, he didn't take a whole lot of pictures. He always shied away from the camera. The pics we do have, my mom has!! I do have another brother, but I don't have any pics of him scanned yet!!

Thanks Sugar Smack!!

[Sugar Smack]

50. There you are, Shell. I really appreciate your contribution

to my thread. That picture means so much. It's the definition of two proud, happy children who are close to each other. And yours is the sweetest little monkey smile I've ever seen on any child.






:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[jmm]

41. My brother and I

This is one of my first photo editing experiments. I do have better versions of this pic but I don't have access to them right now.

[Arugula Latte]

55. Oh my gosh how adorable!

I just want to pinch those cheeks!

[Sugar Smack]

57. Such sweet smiles and huge eyes-

I love that photo. Are the two of you all grown up & close to each other?

[jmm]

65. I'm 25 and he's 27 now

After we got over our sibling rivalry phase we now get along well. Over a year ago when we were moving at the same time we purposely picked places close to each other.

[MissMillie]

42. My twin and I

several years ago at Christmas

We're very close.

[Sugar Smack]

58. TWINS! I had twins as best friends in highschool,

and RIGHT NOW am reading a book called "The Silent Twins" by Marjorie Wallace, about Jennifer & June Gibbons. I may have to start a thread just on that book. Have you read it? It's FASCINATING.

I'm so glad to hear you're close, too. You look happy together. If you have the same sense of humor, that's even better. I love your posts, MissMillie!



:bounce: :bounce: :toast: :pals:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

43. one of my brothers

[Sugar Smack]

59. Wow. He's as handsome as you are pretty,

young jewel.

[LaraMN]

44. LaraMNSis!

I'm not in the picture-- it's the only one I have of her on my computer. It's (obviously) from a Kerry rally, so it's a little old. She's in her second year of college, now. We have a bit of an age gap.

[Sugar Smack]

60. You know, I see the resemblance in your eyes

and in your cheekbones. She's lovely. LOVE that rally going on behind her!

[RandomKoolzip]

48. My brother and I in 1990...I was fourteen, he sixteen.

I'm the one on the bottom with the "Alternative Tentacles" t-shirt, he's in the suit. This pretty much sums up our relationship...he's a computer programmer on Wall Street making 80 thou a year (and he voted for Bush, according to my mother), I'm a musician in Chicago who makes a living as a line cook.

Needless to say, we don't get along well anymore. In fact, I can't remember the last time we spoke, and it doesn't exactly break my heart.

[Sugar Smack]

61. Well it's a good picture of YOU, dearest RKZ.

Hey listen, does your Mom live in Chicago around you, too? I would understand a little of the chilliness you have toward him (the blatant and unforgivable Bush-voting notwithstanding); when a guy chases his ambitions in a soul-dead environment and doesn't look back, it's disheartening to say the least.

My bro up and went to Cali about 12 years ago to do animation. So much time lost, and that was part of our spat over the phone. I'm so glad for your contribution to this thread. I'm kind of loaded with questions which you don't have to answer, but I have to ask- what are your conversations like when you talk to him?

[RandomKoolzip]

75. I don't talk to him.

The last convo we had was two summers ago. Stilted, to say the least. He talked about his kid and his job, I listened, I talked about my jobs, and there was silence, then nothing since.

My mother lives in Florida, my brother in Connecticut.

The really weird part is that this small unit is all that's left of my family. My father's side of the family is all dead, completely died out. My mother's side of the family is all failed geniuses and religious fanatics; I've never been close to any of them. My mom lives in a crappy little apartment in some shitty slice of Florida, and she's the only member of my family I have left. I try not to think about it too much.

Anyhow, it's not as depressing as it sounds; I'm in a great marriage, I love my wife, and I have a wonderful network of supportive friends, and honestly I'm kind of a misanthrope anyways...large family gatherings always made me withdraw as a child. I tend to concentrate on my music, my job, and my marriage, politics, and the future.

Thanks for asking....take care.

[Sugar Smack]

80. You sound as if you have a good life, RKZ.

You take care too! :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

87. OMG....That's the SAME kitchen we had.

:hi:

[SharonRB]

51. How about me and my daughter instead?

This was taken about 5 or 6 years ago.

[jeanarrett]

53. Which one of you is the daughter?

You both look way too young to have a daughter.

[Sugar Smack]

62. Did you see that above response, beautiful Sharon?

I HOPE so! You cracked me up in DC, "Oh, everyone here's so young!" And you're this petite beauty with a great smile.

[ScreamingMeemie]

71. Isn't Sharon the sweetest? I'm so glad we share a state and a political

persuasion. :hi:

[Sugar Smack]

83. YES. I was fortunate enough to meet her in DC.

She was so great. We were at the rally before going on the march. We were positively giddy! I saw sparkles in her eyes, and we had the best time being "newbies" to the protest scene. We were changed, fundamentally, forever by that weekend.

:hi: Will I ever get to meet you? I really hope I do.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

77. My gosh Sharon, you look absolutely stunning and so does your daughter

Wow!

[Misunderestimator]

79. Great picture Sharon!!

You both look beautiful!

[Misunderestimator]

68. Yo

[Sugar Smack]

84. Are you the little silky-haired waif in the middle

or are you the urchin who's covering up her smile, the one next to her dad? I happen to assume you're the tiniest one of all. 'Fess up, I know that's you, Yo.

[Misunderestimator]

86. I admit it... i'm the tiny one picking her nose.

:D :hi: :loveya:

(Love the pic of you and your bro by the way!)

[yellowdogintexas]

74. my sisters and me...

I am on the left.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

78. All three of you look wonderful

[Sugar Smack]

85. You all look great!

I would love to have sisters, but as I've stated above, my brother's doing his job very nicely! :hi:

[progmom]

88. me and my baby bro - christmas morning in 89 or 90

[CanuckAmok]

89. My half-sister in an incredibly stupid hat:

[progmom]

90. now THAT'S a hat

:rofl:

your half-sis is beautiful thought! :hi:

[CanuckAmok]

91. Yes, it was "Ladies' Day at Ascot"

By rights, that hat is half mine. Long story. Sis inherited everything, then married a Getty.

Stupid fucking father.