Michael Murray

A Couple of Words

The #22 issue of Galaxy Brain Magazine has finally, after crossing dead oceans of time, arrived. My apologies. I have been so sick. So sick this might be the last Galaxy Brain, but hopefully not. Either way, I want to thank every single person who has contributed. You are a murder of geniuses. A pod of marvels. A school of saints and assassins. I love you all and express endless gratitude to you for the work you have poured into this Pandemic Venture.

Jones, are you listening?

You are eight as I write these words to you.

You are also my fucking joy.

This magazine, the whole series is for you. It was my hope it might help document our time together, our family, the lived experience of our time. I am very proud it, and I hope you find things you recognize, need and will help you. Jones, you have been an absolute wonder, an undeserved jewel that does nothing but shine. You, I believe, are a bona fide miracle, one full of love and light and I love you in ways that I did not know a person could love. You are so talented and kind, and I am so proud of you and your world-beating mother. She can do anything. She is an angel.

There will likely be a few more pieces ( one by me) that will be snuck into the magazine over the next week or two. Cat burglar style. You won’t even know it happened.

Thank you all again, I am very very grateful to you all.

And Jones, let this serve as a weird road map or scrapbook of a part of your life.

A small part of your big, gorgeous life.

Michael Murray

michaelmurray.ca

Michael Murray is nothing without his wife.
Rachelle Maynard. That’s his wife.
Rachelle Maynard is the bomb.
She is the Galaxy Brain, and everything you see here is because of her.
That is the Capital T, truth.

But never mind that, for Michael Murray is truly the Galaxy Brain. He has won the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest and is so good-natured that he was once mistaken for a missionary while strolling the streets of a small Cuban town. He has written for the National Post, the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, Hazlitt Magazine, CBC Radio, Reader’s Digest and thousands of other prestigious publications and high-flying companies that pay obscene sums of money .You should buy his book, A Van Full of Girls and throw money at Galaxy Brain.