fortune

Long life with blessings of family & friends is yours is the fourth entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken in Mammoth Lakes, California, in December 2008.

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Sing and rejoice, fortune is smiling on you is the third entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California), in October 2009.

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Everything will now come your way is the second entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken on Stinson Beach, California, in August 2009.

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I’ve lived in the Richmond District for 12 years, not far from a section of Clement Street known as San Francisco’s “other Chinatown.” The location provides easy access to fortune cookies, often sold in quantities of 50-100. There has been little price inflation since I first started buying them for $0.99 a bag. Cheaper than chips, and with equal nutritional value (not much), these cookies have made a great accompaniment to many a lunch. The happy by-product of all this? I’m the luckiest guy around.

Photographs were taken at the Whitmore Pool, a public swimming facility fed by natural hot springs just south of Mammoth Lakes. The text, as I expect you’ve guessed, came from a fortune cookie.

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