Mom, if I could wrap up the safety you gave me and hand it back to you, I would β you've earned it twice over.
New Wishes
A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up β copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.
I think of you on long drives and I cry quietly β out of love, mostly. Sometimes out of how much I've taken for granted.
You made hard things look possible, and possible things look beautiful β and I've been borrowing that magic ever since.
Mom, I love you in the bone-deep way that doesn't have a holiday β it just shows up daily and stays.
Some of my favorite parts of myself are just younger versions of you wearing a different outfit.
You taught me that love is mostly showing up, and you've shown up for me in ways I'll spend my life thanking you for.
What are we writing today?
Cabinets sorted by occasion. Open one β pages are arranged by warmth, not algorithm.
- Anniversary
- Baby
- Belated
- Best
- Birthday
- Boy
- Boyfriend
- Christian
- Christmas
- Congratulation
- Diwali
- Easter
- Eid Mubarak
- Engagement
- Farewell
- Fathers Day
- Friendship
- Funny
- Get Well
- Girl
- Girlfriend
- Good Morning
- Good Night
- Graduation
- Hanukkah
- Heart Touching
- Holiday
- Invitation
- Job
- Love
- Miss You
- Mothers Day
- New Year
- Recovery
- Retirement
- Romantic
- Thank You
- Thanksgiving
- Wedding
- Well
- Women's Day
- Sympathy
- Valentine's Day
- Halloween
- Veterans Day
Mom, thank you for the prayers I never heard β I know they were there, and I know they worked.
I love the way you laugh now β easier, freer β like you finally believe you've earned the rest.
You are the bravest person I know, and you'd be the last to say it β which is, of course, why you're the bravest.
Mom, every soft thing in me started with you. Every brave thing too. I'm not sure how you managed both.
I would trade so much to give you back the years you gave me β please know that the gift was not wasted.
Thank you for being patient with the slow learner I sometimes am about love β you taught me by repeating yourself.
Mom, you are my heart's first language, and I still speak it most fluently when I'm with you.
I love you, and that sentence carries the weight of everything I never said out loud at the right time.
If you could see yourself the way I see you, you'd cry β and then make tea, and then ask how I'm doing.
Thank you for being the friend who shows up when I haven't even finished asking β your presence keeps reaching me first.
Some people decorate your life; you've helped build mine β beam by beam, gently, without asking to be credited.
You're the friend I'd call from a bad day with no preface β and you'd already be reaching for your keys.
I don't say it often, but knowing you exist makes my chest feel less crowded β happy to have you, however quietly.
You've forgiven me for things I haven't forgiven myself for β and that's a kind of love I don't take lightly.
Friendship with you is the rare kind that doesn't audit me β you just keep me, exactly as I show up.
Thank you for the years of small kindnesses I never thanked you for at the time β I see them now, all of them.
You make ordinary days feel like they're worth remembering β that's a gift, even when you don't notice giving it.
I love the way our friendship doesn't perform β we just keep choosing each other, even when nobody's watching.
You've sat with me through versions of myself I'd rather not remember β and you never once flinched.