A great Astoria friend of mine, who is assuredly the greatest repurposer of abandoned items and people in the entire Pacific Northwest, recently presented me with a fortune cookie courtesy of Panda Express, and courtesy of some Astoria High school student who discarded a bag containing three unopened fortune cookies in a garbage can on campus. My friend had dug the cookies out and rescued them from a fortune-telling-less future.<\/p>\n
My friend told me it wasn\u2019t the first time she\u2019d come across unopened fortune cookies in the campus trash.<\/p>\n
Think for a moment: what does is say about American teenagers who drive across a bay with bald eagles and blue herons hunting in the mudflats to get Chinese-themed fast food for lunch, eat the meal, yet do not bother to open the fortune cookies that accompany the order? They throw them away! I want someone to explain this to me, this utter lack of curiosity. Has anyone reading this ever not <\/em>opened a fortune cookie when it was in hand? Is it possible these teenagers don\u2019t know what a fortune cookie is?<\/p>\n If I was teaching, I would have made this scenario the supreme American cultural study of the week. I probably would have structured a literary review around the inquiry.<\/p>\n Help me out, please. The best response wins an envelope of surrealism. I\u2019m not kidding. Wait until you open it and dump the contents onto a table.<\/p>\n My fortune from the rescued cookie was: \u201cKindness makes for happiness.\u201d I’ll try to make it come true this weekend.<\/p>\n (If you found this post enjoyable, thought provoking or enlightening, please consider supporting a writer at work by making a financial contribution to this blog or by purchasing an NSP book.) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A great Astoria friend of mine, who is assuredly the greatest repurposer of abandoned items and people in the entire Pacific Northwest, recently presented me with a fortune cookie courtesy of Panda Express, and courtesy of some Astoria High school student who discarded a bag containing three unopened fortune cookies in a garbage can on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,228,56],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","tag-astoria","tag-fortune-cookies","tag-teaching","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}