I have just finished reading A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry. And as much as I love talking and writing and communicating, I can't figure out how to tell someone the way this book made me feel. The events that happened in the book were catastrophically tragic...yet I am left feeling happy, because I am so grateful for my life, so lucky. To have a place to sleep, to have good health, even decent health, to have toothpaste, and more than anything, to have more than one good friend, and to have a family. To have opportunity. These things can make a difference at even the smallest of scales.

And now, water. I must replenish those tears.