The other day when I came home, there was actually mail in my mailbox -- a rarity of sorts, and when there is it's usually junkmail.

So the first thing I noticed was that the address was handwritten. And then that it wasn't addressed to me, but to a guy who apparently lived there before my landlords owned the building (which has been at least five years) because I've gotten several pieces of mail for him but no one seems to know who he is.

And then that it was addressed from a backwoods county north of here. By the senior to the junior addressee.

When I turned it over, I saw a stamp on it saying that it was prison mail and the contents had not been checked and to not sue the prison if there was anything offensive or illegal in it. And the handwritten scrawl, "Sure do miss ya'll!"

And some part of all that was so sad.