Fortunes

While Claudia was here this weekend we tried out a new type of fortune cookie: Taste of Thai Toasted Coconut Fortune Cookies. Best of all they are gluten-free! Very tasty cookies but the nutritional value was a little on the heavy side.

Regular fortune cookies:

Taste of Thai cookies:

But the fortunes weren't your typical phrases - these were more like parables, which was rather nice.

Through violence you may solve one problem but sow the seeds for many others.

Neither fire nor wind, birth, nor death can erase our good deeds.

Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the illnatured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Pay no attention to the faults, things done or undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.

Holding on to anger is like grasping hot coal, you are the one getting burned.

Sometimes one impresses by saying something and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. What we think we become.

And in the "Holmberg" fashion you have to end each of the futunes with "…in bed"!

So we follow the fortune cookie, right?

Tim and I had lunch on Friday at Dragon Inn in Lemon Creek. We had been here for dinner when we first moved to Juneau and thought we should give it another try. They meal was decent for ordering "lunch specials." We got a bowl of soup with rice and entree: we split pork tenderloin with a sweet and sour sauce and General Tsao's Chicken - nothing special about the taste or the portion. The soup was very good - Tim had the hot and sour and I had a seafood soup. It came it a huge bowl. The soup plus the dim sum platter we ordered was really all I needed! The dim sum platter had fried egg roll, dumplings, jalapenos with a pork middle (yum), terriyaki beef (pretty chewey), and steamed shrimp sho mao (yum). There were only about 4 tables with people but it looked like the restaurant were doing a pretty good takeout business.

We had just looked at a house that we were thinking about making an offer on so were really scratching our heads when we read our fortunes in our cookies!

Opportunity knocks on your door tomorrow! Act Soon!


Be prepared to modify your plan.