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RE: Paper Cranes (5 Minute Freewrite)
There is another use for the origami crane I had not heard of yet. I know about folding them till your fingers are stiff and you've got a thousand for the blessing that will cure an ill person, but it's good to know they will keep for other emergencies and despondencies besides (although I suppose the whole therapeutic/energetic point is to fold them anew - only in these tree-bare and dead-water times I can't help but think of recycling the short way).
A compelling read.
Love your old floor boards. Hope they didn't creak. Mine are driving me potty. You'ld think it would be nice and literary Parisian romantic but it's nerve-wracking for the one who stays at home all year.
I really don't know if cranes are used for this purpose at all, actually. Originally in my one minute of brainstorming before my five minutes of writing, I thought of a sentence like, "small paper planes dotted the ocean around her," but I couldn't think of a reason why you would put paper planes in water, especially the ocean. I thought that cranes were probably appropriate for that, and I thought it would be nice to put candles in them, but the density would certainly sink them, so I had to make them large cranes. Anyway, the whole thing still might make no sense, in terms of physics and in terms of purpose. But thank heavens for poetic license and allowing me to have such an indulgence as writing things that are completely unrealistic!