Jack of Harts

Happy Halloween, from my Family to yours.

This is a nice picture of a young Malcolm McDonnell, Caroline Murphy, and Danaka Murphy dressing up as wizardry students for a fun party. I don’t think we ever really got together like this, but a man can dream, right? And modern computer imagery can make the very best of those dreams come true. Or at least realistically fake.

I had a thing for Danaka back in the day. Me and most of the boys my age. We were the next generation of the Family when this picture could have been taken, ready to build a Brave New World in our image. Instead we came apart like a defective merry-go-round.

In writing my memoirs, I see where we failed. And where we succeeded. We were young. We thought we knew what the world could bring against us. We thought we were ready for it. We were wrong. But in our failure, we grew and we became ready.

It is my supreme hope that we can take what we have learned and build a world where the next generation can grow up the way we should have. Like this. Innocently playing at dress up for parties that are only hosted for the amusement of our children.

So Happy Halloween, from the Family I intend to build, to yours…