- the best gifts are unexpected ones. they shock you like playful surf splashing high, making you gasp and laugh in delight, and even years later, they will make you smile.
the best gifts are the quiet ones. they are unintended, slipping between the lines and the moments, recognized only in retrospect, and years later, they grow more cherished.
for the pathways that were opened here, however indirectly;
for the connections and memories that never would have been;
for all the new parts of me that found their birth here;
for being my security in the turmoil of a life turned upside-down;
for letting us help:
thank you.
{it will never be enough, but it will have to suffice, said over and over again until the end.}
