“Auntie, look!” your nephew, Tenko, smiled excitedly as he held up a small bouquet of flowers. He’d just picked them from the garden, putting them together with some grass blades. “Happy birthday!”

“I drew us together.” he showed you his drawing—you and him, in a warm embrace and two big, crooked smiles on your faces. “Do you like it? Touya let me borrow his crayons to color it!”