Letters to you

Write to them from inside the fog — even just three lines.

Tell them what these early months actually felt like.

Tell them about the day they arrived.

Tell them about the people who loved them before they could know it.

What have you learned this year that you want them to have?

Tell them what they've already taught you.

Describe the world they've arrived into.

Tell them who you are, this year.

Tell them about the thing you do together that you hope they keep.

Make them one promise — carefully.

Write the letter for their eighteenth birthday — now, and seal it.