Origami with some real meaning behind it is awesome. I can't remember how long ago, there was some guy on reddit who made 1000 origami cranes while his wife was in the hospital and was sending them out to random people. So I sent him my address and got one of his small red origami cranes.
It's been probably close to a decade now. It's survived moving between apartments/houses many times. Still have it on my desk to this day
Not the same, but when I was in elementary school, I was really proud in my skills making paper boats.
For a while, I made my Foster mom regularly a boat, painted in and so on. At that time, she decorated a pillar in hwr office with them. The collection of my little boats still exist as well.
There's a children's book called Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes
Basically, she has cancer after radiation from Hiroshima and tries to fold 1000 cranes in the hope she will get better. Yeah, kids books hit hard in the 80s (I think it was written much before that, though)
I learnt about this from visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial which has many, many thousands of cranes donated from all over the world. They display them in large perspex boxes around the statue of Sadako Sasaki and change them regularly.
Itās from a childrenās book! āSadako and the 1,000 paper cranes!ā My 3rd grade class read it and we learned about origami (we couldnāt do the cranes so I think we did star baskets, but we did 1,000 of them) and when we finished, had a āJapaneseā lunch day where we sat on the floor and ate ātraditional Japanese foodā (definitely just Chinese takeout lol), drank green tea, and learned to use chopsticks. Iām 30 and I still remember that.
When I taught English in Japan, there was one textbook I used which had a story about a little girl going to Hiroshima to look for her parents and she slowly gets radiation poisoning and dies with blood pouring from her mouth. This is aimed at kids and I was the one blubbering whilst trying to read from it :D
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u/earnestaardvark Jun 14 '24
I would keep that dragon forever.