Dear Reader,

Types of Sadness!

Sadness of not missing someone
Sadness of the cold after getting out of the shower
Sadness of eating standing up
Sadness of meeting someone you've been dying to meet
Sadness of looking at someone you've known and realizing you never really saw them
Sadness of knowing there are about 4 + billion people in the world who you can not communicate with.
Sadness of someone twitching while they are sleeping

Sadness of bare feet and hardwood floors.
Sadness of the first mark in a blank notebook.
Sadness of dried-up roses.

Sadness of the last page of a good book.
Sadness of an untuned piano key
Sadness of thinking of the year that passed on New Years Eve

Sadness of people's waves disappearing slowly as you drive away
Sadness of walking home with a new pair of shoes
Sadness of an ex boyfriend still listening to your favourite music that you introduced him to
Sadness of still listening to the music an ex boyfriend introduced you to

Sadness of not knowing enough words to express what you mean

Current Mood: happy

What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice, so I could fall asleep, or maybe a set of kettles that sings the chorus of 'Yellow Submarine,' which is a song by the Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'etre, which is a French expression that I know