Song for a Whale

by Lynne Kelly

Blue 55 didn’t have a pod of friends or a family who spoke his language. But he still sang. He was calling and calling, and no one heard him.

Below the picture of a whale swimming in the ocean was a quote from her favorite book, Moby-Dick: “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

He said he’d always been more of a “numbers person” than a “words person” and that it was hard to learn a new language. Seems like having a kid you could barely talk to would be harder.

He used figures of speech all the time, even though most of them didn’t make sense in sign language.

have interpreters speaking the parts for “the sign language impaired.”

The whales’ songs were like footprints they left in the ocean.

Sound traveled farther in water than in air,

“He keeps singing this song, and everything in the ocean swims by him, as if he’s not there. He thinks no one understands him. I want to let him know he’s wrong about that.”