Good Fortune Telling?

I received a handful of fortune cookies yesterday. I never know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Fortune cookies come loaded with their own little spark of hope and disappointment; when they don’t say what you want, open another until you find one that does, or trade. On some level that seems like cheating the universe. So, I thought it was funny yesterday when the fortune cookie said,

“Pick another Fortune Cookie”

WHAT?????

The real irony, There wasn’t another cookie to pick. Who has the wicked humor now? A fortune cookie?

So it circled back to the first cookie,

“Do not let what you do not have, prevent you from using what you have.”

Thank You Notes

(I’m still feeling my way around YouTube. Annoying you can’t fade in or out the music. Enjoy the drop off. Sigh.)

I thought I’d go to Starbucks and get my free coffee and tell the universe how lucky I was to enjoy something free. Then I thought, that’s just sad. That’s not the example I want to be in this world.

I stood outside my front door and watched the rain pour all over my neighborhood. Across the street I noticed my neighbor’s tree in full bloom like a bright ball of cotton candy melting under relentless raindrops. How do you explain to a tree it’s better to wait and bloom a little later in the year? You can’t, the tree loves the warmth of the sun.

I looked at the tree and thought, how lucky am I? An entire tree in bloom, like a giant bouquet from the universe just in time for my birthday. Who should I thank for this gift? Mother Nature and her ability, like most women, to change her mind? Or Global Warming and the tenacity it inspires in all living things to survive, or in this case bloom?

Dear Mother Nature, 

Thanks so much for the early arrival of spring, then the late arrival of winter rain. It was a joy to see my neighbors tree bloom so early. I look forward to seeing it bloom again in the coming weeks. 

Sincerely, 

Day

Or

 Dear Global Warming, 

Ha! Ha! Ha! I guess you’ll have to find a few new tricks? My neighbor’s tree across the street pretty much kicked your butt in the last few days. It’s true, you sometimes turn the blue sky brown, force the trees to bloom early, but my neighbor’s tree is an extraordinary shade of pink this year. So, I thank you for inspiring their flowering tree to bloom so bright, and eventually twice this year. The fact it bloomed on my birthday was nicely done!!! 

Sincerely, 

Day. 

I dunno, it’s toss up. Maybe they both warrant a thank you?

Free coffee? Or free blooms? I got it all, but the blooms might be more memorable in the long run. Hopefully Global warming won’t feel inspired to kick things up a notch. I imagine if people see and appreciate the free blooms around them too, Global warming won’t stand a chance.

 

New Tricks

They say the first step is always the hardest . . .

drags feet . . .
twists hair . . .
deep sigh . . .
rolls eyes . . .
do I have to?

Step  . . .

I admit it; I am a disgrace to my generation. I am OVER all things techy and social media. However, these ARE the times we live in, soooo it’s practically a rule one must participate in something twitteresque or iphony. The times demand we confess all things mediocre and personal with every moment that passes. How else could we possibly prove we exist?

Was Steve Jobs the new Jesus?
Mark Zuckerburg a new Prophet?
Facebook the new church?
“friends” the congregation?
YouTube the choir?
Internet Subscriptions the new tithings?

Cyberspace, a place where objects formerly known as human beings,  resurrect into eternal life? Some say we killed God, did we destroy heaven and hell too?

Ok, that sounds a little cynical. 🙂

Well, I’ve paid a lot of money to afford such cynicism. I was one of the first to have an Apple computer in the 80’s. I was, therefore, one of the first to know there would never be enough memory or money. Yes, thanks for the expensive memories, Steve Jobs (RIP). Decades later . . . still not enough memory, but no more switching out disks to make Photoshop work. I guess this must sound a little like walking a mile in the snow just to get to school?

My Apple orchard has grown over the years. It’s like any relationship; it takes updates, understanding and work in more ways than one. Maybe I should have had an iwedding? Drawn up an inup? So when my mac pro crashed over a new ios I could have petitioned for a lifetime of free upgrades? Oh well, I have new imac now. That’s life, macs change.

For years I have been contemplating a blog, well, more like feeling a “social pressure” to have one. So here I am, officially involved in the Internet like everyone else. A baby step, a sort of little toe in the deep end of the cyber swimming pool.

Whaaaaaa!