Birthday Wishes

Happy birthday, sis. There's a particular kind of safety only sisters know , the kind that holds up against everything. You are mine.

Happy birthday, nephew. You're the kind of person who walks into a room and immediately knows how it works. That skill is going to take you very far. Use it honestly.

Happy birthday, Grandpa. You have one volume: opinions, delivered clearly, to whoever is in range. It is objectively the most useful quality anyone in this family has ever had.

Happy birthday, sis. I genuinely cannot believe we are both adults. It seems implausible. And yet here we are. Happy birthday to my favorite implausibility.

Sixty years, Grandpa. Six decades of being the strongest, steadiest, gentlest man we know. Today we wrap the table around you and just listen. Tell us the stories again , we never get tired of them. Happy 60th. We love you in a way we'll spend the rest of our lives trying to repay.

Happy 60th, Mom. Look, sixty is just fifty with more opinions and less patience for nonsense , which honestly makes you more powerful than before. You've earned every single grey hair, and you wear them like trophies. Here's to the most formidable version of you yet.

Happy birthday, my daughter. May this year be soft where the world is hard, and loud where the world is quiet about your worth.

Happy birthday, sis. We don't say it enough, so let me say it now: you are extraordinary. This is embarrassing for both of us. Let's never speak of it again.

Happy birthday, Grandma. Some part of every good thing in this family started in your hands.

Happy birthday, Grandma. You still have more energy than half of us. It's either genetics or spite. Either way, we're taking notes.