1 - If I stop before I respond to that message or make that phone call, and fold a crane, I will either skip it or be ten percent kinder. Things work out better.
2 - If I'm are busy thinking about what I've learned, what to say next, what to do next, what I SHOULD be doing ... I WILL make a mistake. There are do-overs, you can fix it. #98 was almost folded inside out, first time I've done THAT mistake. Banish the "should be" messages in my head. It is just a paper crane.
3 - Cranes offer a moment to honor someone's birthday, memory, a kindness ... yes, I could cheat and assign them one I folded earlier, but it really isn't the same. And if I make a mistake while remembering something, as I said, do-overs. still count.
4 - The post office does not like the idea of mailing cranes first class in envelopes (even folded flat) because "they will be too thick for the machines and the envelope will tear." I've been short with the clerk over the request to add postage, and yes, I mailed one to myself through the outside box in order to prove it works fine within a card or folded piece of paper. But I feel like a heel for being short with someone doing their job. From now on I will cyber send them or try to add extra postage. I suppose I could figure it out ahead of time and have it on hand. I can't guarantee that I won't cheat in a pinch.
5 - I'm at 101, literally. It will take a very long time to get to 1,000. That's okay, it is more worthwhile than I used to imagine.
Number 101 is for a friend who died night before last. I will think a while before I post it here, in his memory. And I will give it away.
6 - I'm not going to follow the traditional practice of tying them all together, In the interest of downsizing I won't hoard them. I left one with the tip for a chambermaid at a hotel last week. She or he probably threw it away, but maybe they took it home to their kid for a few minutes of play.
7. Like anything else, cranes can be a way to procrastinate and avoid the real world. When you are making a crane you aren't necessarily making a difference, finishing drudgery work, excercising,
paying attention to friends and family. Sometimes that's okay too.
7. Like anything else, cranes can be a way to procrastinate and avoid the real world. When you are making a crane you aren't necessarily making a difference, finishing drudgery work, excercising,
paying attention to friends and family. Sometimes that's okay too.
6.5 - f you want cranes, in any quantity, I'll give them to you.
