Transitions

With everything going on in my life, my recent fortune cookie provided an appropriate fortune:

Going with the flow will make your transition ever so much easier.

My sons' fortunes could have just as easily applied also:

You should let go of negative things today. [For the record, I did let go of the negative things that day and invited back the next day.]

Tension in a partnership? It might be time for you to delegate.

(For Jeff's sake, this was not consulting a medium. It was hot and spicy.)

Honest Intentions

Yesterday included our annual trek to the Chinese Restaurant for our annual Christmas Day dinner. As usual, we ate our full (more accurately, more than we should have). This year's buffet included more seafood than previous years which provided too much temptation to restrain myself. But eventually, I got around to my fortune cookie and found it intriguing.


You are a person of imaginative, yet honest intentions. [The statement implies that imaginative intentions are not necessarily honest intentions. Maybe this encourages me to know that my intentions are imaginative and honest. Yet, we know what road is paved with good intentions. Oh well! Maybe I'll have better luck with my next fortune cookie.]

Friends and Fun

Well, with our septic down and no LP for cooking (plus the church kitchen had many flies due to the recent Turkey Dinner), I suggested we splurge and buy some Chinese. The food was delicious, but I found my wife's and my fortune cookies very appropriate for our present circumstances:


You will always be surrounded by friends when you need them. [This has been an especially bad month and many friends have helped us in various ways. So much help has come that it is hard who to remember to thank.]


You'll accomplish more later if you have a little fun this weekend. [So yesterday we went to see 'Merchant of Venice' at APT and went for lunch at a local bistro to hobnob with (or just observe) some of the actors. Now will we get more accomplished.]

Magnetic Personality

I usually get a good chuckle from my chinese fortune cookies. Today, we ate a nice Chinese Restaurant during lunch break from the Concordia Catechetical Academy Symposium.

Today's 'fortune' read -- You have an unusually magnetic personality.

It is amazing how well these cookies know me ;)