With the advent of the new year, now is the perfect time to communicate messages of hope and good fortune. This challenge isn't about filling a page. It's about choosing words carefully, and making every word count. The fortune above could have read, "Your smile will bring you luck," but words and phrases like "winsome" and "sure protection" are far more precise and eloquent.The "fortune" that you compose could be practical ("You will discover a fabulous new conditioner that enables you to disentangle your hair with ease") or lofty ("Your joyous heart has many rooms, which will always be filled with love and laughter"), but it should ultimately reflect what you consider "good fortune" in the year(s) to come.
As you compose your fortunate sentence, feel free to dispense with the second person pronoun "you" and adopt a different approach, in the form of an intention, whether meant for an individual ("May I finally learn to recognize the difference between living to eat and eating to live") or a group ("May we lose ourselves more often in laughter, and find ourselves more often in love.")
If you don't want to limit yourself to a single sentence, don't. A litany of fortunes might be the way to go for you, or a single, repeated fortune could take on a mantra-like feel.
As an extension to the challenge, if you're looking for a creative twist, consider the way that you "package" your fortune. Just as a fortune is hidden within a cookie, so might your page, card, or other project seek a novel way to enclose the fortune.
Have fun with this one, and be sure to share what you come up with by leaving a comment with a link to your blog or by posting a link on the challenge threads at Two Peas in a Bucket or Studio Calico (which I will start to post beginning on January 1).
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