Fresh today · Saturday, 25 July

New Wishes

A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.

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Happy retirement, colleague and friend. The team will miss you. The friendship will keep going. Both true.

Congrats on the next chapter. May the retirement be everything the working years weren't — slow, quiet, entirely on your terms.

Wishing you a retirement spent doing what the job kept interrupting. All of it. Generously.

Happy retirement, friend. The Monday meetings will not be the same. The friendship will.

Congrats on retiring. The friendship doesn't end with the badge. Let's prove it.

Wishing you a retirement that surprises you with how good it actually feels. They mostly do.

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Happy retirement. The work was hard. The friendship was the easy part. Let's keep the easy part going.

Congrats on the next phase, friend. May the lunches we'll have together post-retirement be longer and weirder than the work ones ever were.

Wishing you a retirement spent doing absolutely nothing important — and entirely on your terms.

Happy retirement, colleague. The team is losing a steady hand. The friendship is gaining a person with more time for coffee. Worth the trade.

Congrats on retiring. The next chapter is yours. The friendship is ours. Both will be better for the change.

Wishing you a peaceful retirement and a phone that only rings when you want it to. Mine will be one of the ones you actually want.

Happy retirement, friend. The first month will feel strange. The second month will feel correct. By month three, we'll be planning regular lunches.

Congrats on the new chapter. The friendship has, somehow, become one of the more important ones in my work life. The post-work version is going to be even better.

Wishing you a retirement of garden afternoons, hobby evenings, and the occasional long lunch with the colleague-turned-friend who is writing this card.

Happy retirement. The team will figure things out. The friendship will not require figuring out. It'll just continue.

Congrats on retiring, friend. The badge goes in a drawer. The friendship goes wherever you go.

Wishing you a brilliant retirement. The career was the long sprint. The next phase is the long, well-deserved walk.

Happy retirement, colleague. The way you've shown up at work over the years has been the kind of professionalism that's getting rarer. Today, said clearly.

Congrats on the next chapter. May the only deadline you face from here on out be dinner — and may at least some of those dinners include the friends from work who are still around.

Wishing you a peaceful retirement and the kind of friendship-after-work that doesn't always survive the change. Let's make sure ours does.

Happy retirement, friend. The career was a chapter. The friendship is the longer story. Off you go. Keep in touch.

Congrats on retiring. The Slack channel will be quieter. The text thread between us will, hopefully, be louder. Trade.

Wishing you well in the new phase. The career taught you to be efficient. The retirement is the chance to be slow. The friendship gets to be the part that gets more time now.

Happy retirement, friend. May the alarm clock have its little funeral. May the morning coffee taste better than ever. May the friendship survive the change. (It will. We'll make sure.)