"Believe That?"

It was so dark and rainy yesterday  all I wanted to do was sleep. Then along came Rayvoughn arriving at the train station from New York where I was to pick him up and bring him back to the ABC house. “I’m always finding things!” he said with a big smile, tossing his backpack into the back.  “I just found this on the train!” he went on, pulling out that snazziest of reading toys, the Kindle. “Someone left it right in the bathroom, believe that?” He turned it on to show me the lady’s name and contact info, then flipped open his phone and called her on the spot.“Hello Kathleen Hanson! You left your Kindle on the Acela!”  (Let's just say that’s the lady’s name.)  She was visiting from Pennsylvania and staying in Chestnut Hill, she said, which any way you slice it as a good 40 minute drive from Winchester.  She said she’d take a cab over  after her dinner engagement  - "That’ll cost a cool hundred” I thought to myself”  - so Rayvoughn gave her his information, then spelled his name a few times because it is so elegant a name and unusual in its orthography.A few hours later she got back in touch to say the ride was just too pricey so Rayvoughn said he would ship it.  As we thought on this though, we realized it was a pretty tall order for a 15-year-old with school all day and Lacrosse practice after, so I said I'd take and Fed-Ex it today. Then, in a spirit of celebration, he had me stop at Target so he could buy a pair of long-saved-for Skullcandy headphones. Once back in the car, he popped open the package and examined them with such joy all I could think  was This is how to live! BE the one to do acts of kindness; BE the one to delight in the beauty and utility and design of every merest thing to cross your path and even the darkest rainiest days won’t get you down!