The light in that photo! You are lambent! You are softly radiant!

Thank you! The sun stages a good photoshoot.

Happy birthday to your mother

I'll tell her!

(I really do, every time people on the internet wish her well. Ditto the rest of my family.)

One of your names can now be "descended from bears." I think of the blessings that descent empowers you to give out. "May the presence of three bears support and defend you."

Being a child of three bears definitely sounds like a folktale.