Maybe the feather a seagull dropped next to me, as it swooped down so low overhead I could feel its wings push the air around, is an offering. A gift from the universe. I worry if that’s ego. I don’t think I’m particularly lucky, though. I’d like to be. Or maybe I am. Lucky in seagull feathers and pretty shells and cooling breezes. Or in smelling the rain before it comes, or the ability to write this out. I guess everyone is lucky if they belive it. Maybe gifts from the universe are at the same time gifts to ourselves.