The Fortune Cookie
It began with a fortune cookie.
It was Saturday date night: Chinese buffet and a movie. I grabbed a fortune cookie on the way out, and stopped to read it. Then I handed it to John, my husband—the cookie was obviously meant for him. Sometimes I get his cookie instead of mine.
Then I saw another fortune cookie on the ground. It was still in its plastic bag and in crumbs from being stepped on. I picked it up, opened it, and read the fortune. It was the same fortune that I had selected in the restaurant, and given to my husband.
Or did it select me?
It said, “You have a charming way with words. You should write a book.”
The fortune cookie gnawed away at me long after I had gnawed away at it. I told myself, Not me! I can’t. I don’t know how! John is the writer.
My mother was also a writer. I had spent my whole life denying that I could write. Professionally, I could write just fine—well enough for an architect. But the fortune had said that I should write a book. What about?
The universe is not to be denied, in my experience. We deny the universe and God at our own peril. So here goes. The universe has spoken and is speaking through me. It is the way of the muse. How amusing.
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