Re: Tim and the seashore, take him out sometime to a cornfield on one of those thunderstorm summer afternoons when the sun's still gleaming off the copper dome on the county courthouse but the sky's gone slate-dark and as the first fat raindrops start to fall a cooling wind is rising and rustling through the stalks in shining waves that stretch to the horizon... and leave him out there marvelling at it while you go into the air conditioning and watch a little TV and maybe make yourself a tuna sandwich, 'cause what's the big deal?

Or something like that. :)