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JOY

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Thousand crane ... Thousand crane blessings
Feeling “Joy” in every fold,
Happiness is love
It’s adding “joy” to my life as I watch the girls spend the whole day doing origami and making families of peacocks, swans, pigeons. The 10-yr-old says, “I make mine starting with the Crane Fold. You taught me how to start.”

The 9-yr-old says, “This is my humming bird family. Mine start with the Kite Fold.”

Their tutor assigned the book SADAKO as their homework last week. Wednesday, the teacher asked, “What were your three favorite characters? What did you learn about Hiroshima? Even though the book was sad, did you find anything joyful?”

The 10-yr-old answers, “I think Sadako’s courage gave me strength and if her spirit is out there, I think she’d be happy about that. Honestly, the amount of courage and strength I got would be a *****star.”

Thursday morning, she woke up and said, “I want to make a thousand cranes.”

The Japanese legend promises one who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods. Some believe you are granted happiness, eternal good luck, long life or recovery from illness or injury. They are popular gifts for special friends and family.

The crane in Japan is one of the mystical or holy creatures (others include the dragon and the tortoise) and is said to live for a thousand years: That is why 1000 cranes are made, one for each year. It is believed the 1000 cranes must be completed within one year and made by the person who is to make the wish at the end.

The beauty of the creativity of girl's work is that they started folding cranes, but it quickly evolved into all kinds of other birds with a few different twist in the folding.

And the girls helped write the haiku verse. The 10-year-old edited the photo. Origami paper was ordered, but I think half of the creativity was to use what they have and cut it up themselves. It's feeling like a group project and not for one person's goal. We'll work on it.

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