May 30th, 2014

Dear Father,

Who were you?  Keith and I are grown now.  I a father, Keith a father and grandfather we both missed getting to know our father.  No one was really there to train us, the men in our lives more resenting our presence while playing the temporary role of father, not their fault, they were simply there too late.

Who were you?  Keith and I didn't grow up together, didn't end up calling the same person mother, didn't know for a few years of our existence.

Who were you?

Love, your son,
Jason Vincent Alexander Murray

May 27th, 2014


Dear Father,

It gets closer to the day we leave for the summer.  A stressful blend of work and fun and driving that earns our way in the world.  Lisa is working every moment trying to get enough done for the first few shows of the summer,  I am cleaning and doing yard work to get us ready and our house ready.

This is a stressful life full of stomach aches and head aches but I wouldn't want to go back to the grind of a regular job.

Is that how you felt as a musician?

Love, your son,

Jason Vincent Alexander Murray

May 24th, 2014


Dear Father,

Today was a stressful day.  Arguments were many and didn't end well.  Your granddaughter is going to her prom sad because her boyfriend won't talk to her and won't see her.  These children are selfish and their arguments are petty.  Maybe they aren't but it seems as though they are to me since I've now been married almost 24 years.  What arguments did you guys have?  You were young, maybe they were petty as well.

I don't know what to do for my daughter.  She seemed so happy a couple of days ago and now she seems so sad.  She stakes so much of what she is feeling on the people around her.  I think sometimes she doesn't have much of an understanding of who she is.

Well so long for now.  I must get on with the process of living, something I wish you had participated more in.

Your son,

Jason Vincent Alexander Murray