Today I am wishing you many things.
all the fun and excitement a birthday brings, with gifts and laughter and loved ones nearby.

 I would wish you happiness too, but.. It seems you have it already!!

You seem to know how to accept who you are in the here and now, to take what life gives, with an open heart, and to make the enjoyment of living an art.

Your generous spirits, your gracious goodwill have made moments that shine in memory still,
with words of compassion and caring acts that turned love and kindness from ideas to facts.

And if somehow, today, all that caring returned to you, you'd know the way others have learned their very own secret of happiness too....
just knowing and being with someone like you