Today is my brother's birthday and he's missing.

He's mentally ill, but lives on his own. We're not sure when he went off missing, but probably sometime in the last few days. We're pretty worried about him, but how do you search for a person who's lived on the streets before and may just be having an episode--or got a wild hair to take a bus somewhere? Or is it worse?

CDs listened to today:

• Claude Debussy: Estampes
• Material: One Down
• Rami Levin: Anima/Breath Of Life
• Sarah Hopkins: Cello Chi
• Offspring: Smash
• Dave Holland: Seeds Of Time
• Gustav Mahler: The Symphonies, disk 6
• Dewey Redman: The Ear Of The Behearer