FEB from Patty - poignant

This is from Patty. I don't think of Patty when I see a nice arrangement of vintage stamps. Is this something new? I like the cursive and I love the blues --- and I love-love-love the penguin. I like that bird on the head. There was a whole bird-on-the-head series quite a while ago. It included Finnbadger and Smash. In the olden days we had nicknames. Or maybe it was just those two. 

 

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This morning I had some topic in mind and I needed a word - so I started this post - and then I was hungry and forgot to come back after I ate and now I have forgotten what I was going to write about. I seem to be in some kind of weird stupor after that whole virus ordeal. It seems to be gone - but, now I am in week one of a six week physical therapy ordeal on my knees.

poignant /poin′yənt/

adjective

1. Arousing deep emotion, especially pity or sorrow; touching: synonym: moving. 
   "a poignant memory; a poignant story."
   Similar: moving
2. Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings. 
   "poignant anxiety."
3. Physically painful.

I need a word that isn't this intense. Does anyone have one? 

Wistful is a nice word - but it's not intense enough and I'm not longing or yearning or desirous.

wistful /wĭst′fəl/

adjective

1. Full of melancholy longing or wishful yearning. 
2. Expressing sadness or yearning. 
3. Longing; wishful; desirous. 
   Similar: longingwishfuldesirous