March 15, 2012
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gettinghealthyThere was supposed to be a picture or two with this post, but I can't find the camera and since I was probably the last one to use it, that is a problem. If I find it later I made add pictures to this depending on how much time passes and whether or not I remember to.
Near the end of February I started the Paper Crane project to fold 1000 paper cranes. As of today, I have now folded 30, which is remarkable considering how much making these can make my fingers hurt and I have been having a lot of random back and shoulder pain lately which makes wanting to move any arm/hand muscles really low.
The packet of Origami paper said it had 28 sheets in it, but it turned out it had 29 which really confused me because there are four colors and when I organized them to thread and hang I had this random red crane and then spent way more time than I should have today trying to find the three it was supposed to go with and then realized after a few hours that I wasn't - 3 I was +1. Then, because I have a plan for it, I made a super-sized paper crane out of wrapping paper, but while wrapping paper folds very easily, it doesn't stay in shape very well so Kevin is going to do something to it to help it keep its shape.
When I told my mom what I was doing she remembered the book and how I had made a lot of paper cranes for a long time after reading it. She has even offered to send more origami paper if we can't afford it ourselves, which I may have to tell her to go ahead and do, in small quantities, because if I have a stack of a 1000 sheets sitting in front of me I may get overwhelmed and hide. I don't know if me starting this project was her intent when she left that packet of origami paper, but I am glad she approves of what I am doing with it.
Right now 28 of the paper cranes are hanging in the living room on a length of fishing line because we figured it was the strongest thing that could be threaded through a needle to actually thread through the cranes and then tided and hung. The extra red crane is sitting in front of my computer screen so i should see both the first batch and the extra all the time. The jumbo sized one I plan to sit in the bedroom on my bedside table, provided it fits, the thing is huge, for when I am stuck in bed all day, or just to look at while falling asleep.
I know this won't happen over night, just like getting my health back won't happen over night. In some ways I think that is the lesson I am most taking away from this. But just because I can't fold them as quickly or for as long as I used to, I still can fold two or three a day and so long as I can do that, hope still exists because it is something, and hope is a very important thing when you are trying to over come something.
For now I have to wait until I can get more paper (or start working on the printer paper which will result in some large white cranes) but I am looking forward to making more.
30 down, 970 left to go.
Near the end of February I started the Paper Crane project to fold 1000 paper cranes. As of today, I have now folded 30, which is remarkable considering how much making these can make my fingers hurt and I have been having a lot of random back and shoulder pain lately which makes wanting to move any arm/hand muscles really low.
The packet of Origami paper said it had 28 sheets in it, but it turned out it had 29 which really confused me because there are four colors and when I organized them to thread and hang I had this random red crane and then spent way more time than I should have today trying to find the three it was supposed to go with and then realized after a few hours that I wasn't - 3 I was +1. Then, because I have a plan for it, I made a super-sized paper crane out of wrapping paper, but while wrapping paper folds very easily, it doesn't stay in shape very well so Kevin is going to do something to it to help it keep its shape.
When I told my mom what I was doing she remembered the book and how I had made a lot of paper cranes for a long time after reading it. She has even offered to send more origami paper if we can't afford it ourselves, which I may have to tell her to go ahead and do, in small quantities, because if I have a stack of a 1000 sheets sitting in front of me I may get overwhelmed and hide. I don't know if me starting this project was her intent when she left that packet of origami paper, but I am glad she approves of what I am doing with it.
Right now 28 of the paper cranes are hanging in the living room on a length of fishing line because we figured it was the strongest thing that could be threaded through a needle to actually thread through the cranes and then tided and hung. The extra red crane is sitting in front of my computer screen so i should see both the first batch and the extra all the time. The jumbo sized one I plan to sit in the bedroom on my bedside table, provided it fits, the thing is huge, for when I am stuck in bed all day, or just to look at while falling asleep.
I know this won't happen over night, just like getting my health back won't happen over night. In some ways I think that is the lesson I am most taking away from this. But just because I can't fold them as quickly or for as long as I used to, I still can fold two or three a day and so long as I can do that, hope still exists because it is something, and hope is a very important thing when you are trying to over come something.
For now I have to wait until I can get more paper (or start working on the printer paper which will result in some large white cranes) but I am looking forward to making more.
30 down, 970 left to go.
