I spent a couple of weeks in China and never once saw a fortune cookie. But I've had a few since then: "You are grateful for the small pleasures of life." "A chance meeting with a stranger may soon change your life." "Do not burden yourself with trivial matters."

I need to catch up, so I'll put four of them in at once. Thai fortunes: "Kiss the person who sent this fortune." "Answer just what your heart prompts you." "The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread." Chinese fortune: "A routine will turn into an enchanting escapade."

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.