The Pidgin Tongue of Fate

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

May 31st, 2012 | 152nd day | 48°, raining, winds NE 10 mph | Waxing Gibbous |

CRYSTAL LAKE, IL. – One of the innumerable rewards of eating Chinese food is the crafty Confucian adages you find in fortune cookies. It seems as though the bottom fortune is the pre-21st century-Westerner’s strongest rebuke to the Eastern philosophies of old.

This afternoon was not a very eventful one, so I have an excuse to be brief.

My dad’s father, who hails from the recently tornado-struck town of Kimberling City, Missouri, arrived in town yesterday, so the three generations of Brokaws and my stepbrother supped at a family restaurant, perpetuating the tradition of awkward mealtime quietude. Afterwards I hosted a rehearsal for Sunday’s event which quickly digressed into distracted-Boy-Scouts-touring-my-study-like-its-ADHD-day-at-the-museum night. Alas, there were dessert pastries.

I gave myself a 101 courses in cybernetics, creole languages and quantum tunnelling theory as well. If I die young, I’ll at least be well-rounded?

You’re probably tickled pink that this post is over with! Farewell.

 

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Shalom. I started my blog Chronicles of a Philomath reluctantly because I know keeping any sort of timely record of my ponderings, observations and beliefs will be unlikely. I do, however, want to put what I have to say out into the world; whether I am well-accepted here or not's a different story. I love to learn, as evidenced by my blog's title. Technology, though often my enemy, is going to be around for a while, so I might as well get used to it. Chronicles of A Philomath discusses the sort of realizations I've come to either in real life or by staring into the medium-sized glowing rectangle in my study. Hopefully you will find them insightful, or at least entertaining.
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One Response to The Pidgin Tongue of Fate

  1. Worldly Winds says:
    June 2, 2012 at 11:03 am

    That is a crafty fortune cookie!! :)

    Reply

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