lost in translation

Thursday, January 10, 2008

I posted before on how I really like eating fortune cookies. And how every now and then you find a real gem of a "fortune." These two are my hands-down favorites of all time. Yes, I even framed them, they're that good.

click on them, and they'll get bigger. Or you can read the text below.




1. You are the only flower of meditation in the wilderness.
2. Alas! the onion you are eating is someone else's water lily.

Probably these have some meaning in an Asian culture.

I just wish some other flowers of meditation would join me in the wilderness…It's getting kinda lonely being the only one.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awwwwwwww! I don't want you to be lonely. So tell me, what kind of flowers of meditation are we? :-)

jen said...

hmmmmm…let's see…how about venus fly traps??

Dave said...

Or maybe a carrion flower :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_flower

jen said...

yuck.

i guess i deserved that one, starting out with the fly traps. I think I'd really rather be a daisy. Or an orange rose. or a bright pink peony. or pretty much any flower that doesn't stink like rotting flesh!

Dave said...

At least you don't look like an ugly stick figure on a post it note!