fortunes continued

From an old world 25 cent mechanical woman-in-a-box fortune teller. I'm not sure "something for the world to talk about" is a good thing, but I'll take it (she didn't give me a choice).

fortunes

In a time filled with thoughts of New Year's resolutions, of which I am a HUGE fan, I have eaten fortune cookies on 2 occasions. And on both occasions, I received essentially the same message. Now I am not a believer of the fortune cookie nonsense, but I think I am hearing something I need to seriously consider:

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why ships are built.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

Which risks have I been avoiding? Are there opportunities I have unknowingly rejected? Am I so risk averse I've lost sight of where I fit on the spectrum? 

OK, universe - eyes wide, heart tender, arms open. Ready. 

twins and lovers

From The Childhood of Jesus by Coetzee:

... Twins are naturally fond of each other, like the star twins. If they were not, then they might go wandering off separately and be lost in the sky. But their love for each other holds them together. It will go on holding them together until the end of time. 

But they are not together, the star twins, not really together.

No, that is true, they are not tight up against each other in the sky, there is a tiny gap between them. That is the way of nature. Think of lovers. If lovers were tight up against each other all the time they would no longer need to love each other. They would be one. There would be nothing for them to want. That is why nature has gaps. If everything were packed tightly together, everything in the universe, then there would be no you or me or Ines. You and I would not be talking to each other right now, there would just be silence - oneness and silence. So, on the whole, it is good that there should be gaps between things, that you and I should be two instead of one. 

snow day!