CHINESE TIMES FIVE We ate Chinese last night at our house.
There were five of us so that we were to share five Fortune Cookies with their cheerful, challenges in quick thoughts.
It just makes common sense that we should start eating more Chinese foods. Just about everything else on the dining room table, and in the Dining Room, for that matter, has a tag, stamp, label, on card attached to it by a piece of Chinese string telling you where it is made - which is – in, most cases, China. Even if the item identification reads elsewhere, it can still be from China the same selling sense by which we bought tons of merchandise said have been made in Hong Kong before it became a part of Red China technically. In like manner textiles we im port from South American locations, and others nations as well, are often shipped from stocks maintained there.. from China.
The Fortune cookies are novel addition - a free horoscope for all diners, in a small way.
Mine said: “Don't just think Act! So I got busy and wrote this page in praise of Chinese food – many of which I like – and also to express my growing fears about our relationships with industrial China. We are far too dependent on a foreign power - and one of political and social philosophy – than we ought to be and we are getting more deeply entangled in the crazed maze day-by-day
The second cookie said: ”Begin! The rest is easy! And ,thinking along the same line, consider the Thanksgiving Day decorations we bought - look at them! Made in China!. What about Christmas ? Do-dads and toys and gifts of all types have been from Santa's workshops in China for years now! A precedent has been well set.
Cookie #3: “Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” It is going to be demanding thing if we determine to regain our ability to make the things we need e rather than depend on another people to supply our wants.
Number 4 Fortune Cookie points in a cheer-up note: “Confidence of success is almost success.” Almost, brother, is a “near miss.”
My wife drew Number 5 which proved to be one which brought us all back into modern times with something of a jolt. When it came her closing turn Vivian read: “Digital circuits are made from analog parts.” and looked as puzzled as the rest of us.
“That's true, I think...” I commented. We face a complicated problem but we will have to solved the problem in sections. It may be that only as we come to understand the mutual needs of both social groups that we can work out an adjustment.
We face some interesting times.
A.L.M. November 1, 2005 [c470wds]
