a valuable life skill

There's a story here. Today at the dinner table (sidenote: my older brother Adam makes some damn good fajitas) the chef remarks that he's been trying to learn how to make origami paper cranes. He recently picked up a bartending shift on Fridays and Saturdays at a local Japanese restaurant and he thought it would be cute to give them to the kids who come into the restaurant with their families. We all agreed that it would be fun. Mom managed to find him a book on origami and also got him a pack of paper to play with.

Well, needless to say the illustrations were a bit foggy (might as well have been written in Japanese). He went out tonight and I told him I'd check out YouTube and see what I could find. Jackpot! I found this guy!

And now, I have little origami friends to keep me company. Yay!





Thanks for sharing in my origami joy. Oh, by the way... the valuable life skill? Making paper cranes. Oh yes. Yes indeed.