Dear Child

by Romy Hausmann

“Happiness is a particularly positive feeling, a state of being pleased or content.”

Happiness feels warm, almost like a slight fever; it has a smell and a heartbeat that goes like the second hand on the kitchen clock.

Worry is more like the feeling of sickness you get when you’ve got a tummy ache and you don’t know if you’re going to have to throw up or not.

The trees are making a final show of their potency before winter, putting on their loveliest display of color.