Nevertheless, I found the book to be beautiful. The origami paper at the back of the book is exquisite. In the midst of that depression, something urged me to attempt origami once more. Before I went to sleep at the end of Christmas Day, I succeeded in folding a boat! I decided to attempt only one origami a day. To my amazement, I was able to continue to follow the written instructions one day at a time, as the folding increased in difficulty. Folding the origami became the high point of my day. Here is what I had folded by the January 1, 2019:
This morning when I was looking at the stats for my blog, I noticed that someone had visited this post from August 2009:
"... and what a wave must be."
Last night I folded a grasshopper:
To add to the synchronicity, it was in June 2009 that David Carradine died.
In the next three days, I will fold a horse, a flower, and a crane.
3 comments:
origami is one of the first things I taught my grandkids. the grandboy really got into it for a while. that famous wave we had occasion to do twice in etched glass.
Love seeing that origami, and the synchronicity of all things. Hope you are feeling better.
Origami can be fun when one feels like it! It always takes me back to the Rupert books of my youth: the surreal spill holder, the paper snapper, etc.
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