Bottled thoughts

Sean is sitting next to our christmas tree, which I really do not want to part with this year, strumming away playing around with song lyrics, unaware that I am typing the lyrics. Whatever he is writing at this moment reminds of me of a little mouse floating in a bottle down a city street, or Alice when she becomes tiny and floats her way through the keyhole in a bottle. It also reminds me of the time my favorite phrase was "scintillatingly effervescent". When Sean and I were first dating we put some of our favorite poems into two bottles and tossed them into the puget sound...I wonder if they will be picked up? I think if I were ever to collect something it would be colored glass bottles. I've got a nice little display on a windowsill with an emerald green, turquoise blue, a purple and a jungle green. But i've known many a person to get carried away with collections and find themselves swimming through salt and pepper shakers. A year or so ago I started washing out decent looking glass jars from purchases like spaghetti sauce, juice, peanut butter, etc. and have been using them for vases, candle holders or storage for things like popcorn kernels or nuts. And i've gotten so bad I find myself examining the shapes of spaghetti sauce jars in the grocery store. Finally I had to throw a bunch away because i was running out of room...p.s. if you want to save jars, lighter fluid gets the labels and their sticky residue off pronto! Anyhow this isn't going anywhere but to say that bottles tickle my fancy and sean is writing a song about floating in a bottle which I think would be really fun to do. And to encourage people to throw bottles out to sea, though i'm not sure how that is on the environment?

Sean's lyrics:
Does anybody see me
floating in a bottle,
down the avenue?
They said there was a hard rain,
so I was drinking champagne,
some for me and for you.

But I wanna go,
where no one can go,
i want to see you in the morning.
You make believe
the darkness can breath;
you see another star a' fallin'....