"What's my fortune..?" 'Michael A. Herr' (Aloha Friday)

Renowned author Michael Herr is back guest-blogging on this awesome Aloha Friday talking about fortune cookies, Las Vegas and more....   Make sure and check out Michael's website at; http://www.michaelherr.com/

ALOHA FRIDAY-"No Work 'Til Monday" 

What's my fortune ?



Aloha folks.

I've never visited a fortuneteller with a crystal ball. When I was in New Orleans, I didn't sit down in Jackson Square with a tarot card reader. No one has ever traced the lines in the palm of my hand or suspended a pendulum over that same palm and told me what was going to happen in my life; who I was destined to meet and fall in love with or what path I would take in life.

Likewise I haven't thrown yarrow stalks, dissected a chicken or other animal to read its entrails or liver. I haven't cast bones or stones. I haven't looked into tea leaves (mostly I drink coffee anyway).

I guess I just don't believe anyone has the power to tell me how my life is going to run its course. Other than a judge who would be able to tell me where I might spend the next ten-to-twenty years if I screwed up.

No, I don't believe in all that hokum.
So . . . why when I get up each morning do I check my horoscope in the daily paper? Do I really believe that gaseous bodies drifting through the cosmos millions of light-years away really have any influence on what kind of a day I'm going to have?
When I pick up my weekly order of Chinese takeout; why do I check to make sure they've included the fortune cookies? Those fortune cookies which I open with eagerness. I have had three separate cookies yield a fortune which says, "You have a charming way with words and should write a book." I've written/published eight books. So it's nice to see that the fortune cookies back me up on this.

My latest fortune cookie says, "You will soon have the opportunity to improve your finances." My wife and I are planning a trip to Las Vegas. Does this cookie urge us to go . . . or to stay home? Which way will be more like to "improve" my finances?
I guess I pick and choose among the various types of hokum in order to find the ones I like.

And since it's mostly harmless, I'll continue to read my daily horoscope and open my fortune cookies.
But I still don't know whether or not I should go to Las Vegas.
See you again, unless my horoscope says I should avoid contact with all strangers.
　Hana Hou, (Encore) Shared from Facebook...

 check out Michael's website at http://www.michaelherr.com/ 

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