Several mornings after the purchase of Dylan's "sweet new kicks", I would hear him come back in after he left for work. "It's too rainy out there, I don't want my shoes to get muddy" he would say. And I laughed and laughed. Then, just standing at a park at Alki beach, a bird flew over head and planted this little present right smack on the prize possessions that Dylan displayed on their original box for weeks and weeks. And I laughed and laughed....