Origami

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Today I am grateful for origami. This is one skill I have never learned, but I sure respect those who can manage the folds and sharp angles. My patience for folding escapes me when I fold the grocery list to stuff it in my pocket.

We have some young friends who are moving soon, so we took this opportunity to unload (um, help them out with) a bunch of boxes I had saved from our last move. . .ten years ago. Aren’t we generous? (Note to those downsizing. . .you will get rid of more crap if you don’t have a basement in your new place.)

We drove to their house to deliver the boxes and chat a little. We didn’t want to stay too long because people who are moving are busy. . .and if you stick around for more than twenty minutes, you get put to work. We are retired. From moving. And smart.

My husband was telling “stories” so I went into the ten-year-old daughter’s room to encourage her because she would be going to a different school for the first time. . .and going into 5th grade. . .for only one year, then off to middle school. Wow. What happens to time? She was sitting at her desk folding an orangy-pink piece of paper into an origami crane.

A couple of minutes later she came back into the kitchen and gave it to me. Then wnt off to her room again. Before we left, she gave John a blue one, too. Very sweet. They will go in one of my hutches.

No one told her to go to her room. No one told her to make them. No one told her to give them to us. She didn’t see giving us the origami cranes as a very big deal. But her generosity says a lot. Especially about her parents!

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