"Till the Soil"

It was a typical Friday evening in our Congress Park neighborhood on Denver's near east side: I'm hanging with the neighbors, having some beers, visiting about the week and having dinner. This evening take-out Chinese was being consumed in hearty amounts – that happens when you have teenagers and invite McIntosh to dinner.

Anyway, after devouring the various delicacies we turned our attention to dessert, fortune cookies. The neighbor's daughter, a high-school sophomore cracked open a cookie an...