Feb 4, 2023
@firefighter-diazbuckley ♡
text: eleven, sandra cisneros // @nakakabaliw // dead poets society // @mercifulstudie // glenn dean // 911 fox
#sandra cisneros#glenn dean#dead poets society#911 fox#hey em#ugh im gna cry as im typing this#i love you so much.#happy birthday#im gna go into detail why i chose each image real quick#first off the obvious. sandra cisneros eleven is Your Story. its yours. and its your birthday. and youre this age and youre 15 and 12 and 8#and 5 and 2 and 1 and every single age in between but today youre this age. and im so glad to see you grow the way you have and are#next is oranges#oranges as an act of love is something im a big believer in#and theyre your favorite fruit#and youre constantly eating them#and theyre also yours#ill never see an orange without thinking 'omg emily firefighter-diazbuckley'#dead poets society is a movie you and i both love#for very similar reasons#and it was todds birthday and its your birthday and i adore you and todd both#as i was putting this parallel together i tried so hard to think of what made you you. and dead poets society was one of the first things t#o come to mind.#shakespeare and theater and academia are so inherintly you that i would have been remiss to not include it. you love theater so much and u#dedicate so much time to it and we'd be a mess without you. youre the best stage manager in the world#i chose this glenn dean painting because it felt very you. and it felt mature. youre maturing my love and youre doing so well.#youre so old i cant believe it. the colors and the bright blue sky and the mountains you love so much are just you#and i know growing up can feel catastrophic (hence the catastrophic 911 photo)#but you handle it with grace. and just like diaz and just like buck and just like hen you come out of it stronger#and you come out every time. and just as you root for them. im rooting for you.#i love you. happy birthday.