Buddies

The election got me a bit off-track, so my Halloween 2008 posting is a little late. But this posting is about more than Halloween; it's about a friendship that thrives on Halloween and all the days in between. So in that respect it's one of those postings that is always timely.

For several years now, JT has gone Halloween trick-or-treating with his friend D. The boys have been buddies since JT was just three and D was a year and a half years old. They are now eight and seven respectively and it is one of the blessings of their young lives that these boys just get one another. Blessed with a similar ability to suspend reality and live entirely in their imaginations, they can play together for hours and hours at a time, chattering and having fun.

In the last year, as JT has grown more self-aware, he's thought about his friendship with D and told me that they can always play together because of their willingness to believe in one another's make –believe games. JT recently told me, "It's okay with me if D wants to be an alien from the future because D lets me be a pirate from the past."

Well said, I think.

These boys have a happy Halloween past:

2005

2006

2007

And a present:

2008

It seems a pretty safe bet to count on their Halloween future.