Happy Birthday Benjamin Blair

Today is my husband's birthday. He is 34.

One of the things I love best about Ben Blair is that he only wishes good things for everyone he knows. This seems like it would be a common attribute among most people, but strangely it's not. In my experience, people often react to good news for their friends as if it's bad news for themselves. As if a success for you equals failure for me. But not Ben Blair. He totally gets that there is enough happiness and good out there for everybody.

He's so fun to share good news with because he's so happy to hear it and so sure that you deserve every bit of happiness you're receiving. If you were to win a major award, and you told Ben Blair, I swear he'd feel the same amount of happiness as if he'd won the prize himself. He would call friends and family to share the news: Hey! My friend (who you don't know and may never have heard of) just won a major award! He would walk around all day or all week on cloud nine. He would genuinely be delighted for you and not feel even a smidgen of envy. He'd just be so glad your hard work was being recognized.

That's just one of the many, many things* I love about Ben Blair.

Two excellent pictures of Ben and Oscar:
from November 2005 by Liz Fuller and
from last Saturday by Ryan Wright.


*Plus also he does a mad dolly.