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 Thanksgiving. The forecast: high chance of stuffing, scattered showers of gravy, light winds of polite conversation.

Thanksgiving wish: that the long-winded relative finally tells the short version of the story. (Hope is alive.)

Happy Thanksgiving. The day is short. The meal is long. The nap is essential. The leftovers are forever.

Wishing you a Thanksgiving where the only thing you fight is the urge to take a third slice of pie. (Take it. You earned it.)

Happy birthday, friend. Another year older, another year of pretending we're not.

Birthday wishes to the friend whose age I'd reveal — but I'd have to admit I know it, and I'm too lazy to do the math.

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Happy birthday. Today, you can be funnier than me. For strictly one day. Strictly today.

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Happy birthday. May the year ahead be slightly less embarrassing than last year. Low bar. Reachable.

Birthday card for the friend who has aged like fine wine — meaning, you've gotten more expensive and harder to handle.

Happy birthday, friend. The bar tonight is on you. The bar of expectations tonight is on the floor. Both work.

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Happy birthday. Eat the cake. Drink the drink. Lie about the age. Repeat every year.

Birthday love for the friend who will absolutely sell me out for a snack and the right amount of attention.

Happy birthday, friend. Don't drink too much. Or do. I'm not your real mother, despite what the bossiness suggests.