#366

Crane #366 given to Kevin @ Volpi's - Petaluma, CA on 9/28/13.

It was great talking with you . . . take care of yourself!

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."  ~ John Wooden

#365

Crane #365 given to Blair @ Volpi's - Petaluma, CA on 9/28/13.

This guy has a great dollar bill joke . . . wing, wing, wing

It was great meeting you!

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."  ~ Margaret Fuller

#364

dropped at Petaluma Market - Petaluma, CA on 9/28/13

"Live your life and forget your age."

                               ~Norman Vincent Peale

#363

dropped @ Ray's Tavern - Petaluma, CA on 9/28/13

"There is none so blind as they that won't see."

                               ~ Jonathan Swift

 

#362

dropped @ Sarah Wadsworth Memorial Courts - Petaluma, CA on 9/28/13

"We must devise a system in which peace is more rewarding than war."  ~ Margaret Mead

#361

dropped @ Lagunita's Brewery - Petaluma, CA on 9/27/13

"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them."  ~ Walt Disney

#360

Crane #360 given to Matthew @ Lagunita's Brewery - Petaluma, CA on 9/27/13

Matthew has actually folded paper cranes and showed me a trick to make their wings flap. 

"A man should learn to sail in all winds."

                                             ~ Italian Proverb

#359

dropped @ Lagunita's Brewery - Petaluma, CA on 9/27/13

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." 

                         ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

#357

dropped @ Michelangelo's - Clovis, CA on 9/29/13

"Genius is mainly an affair of energy."

                        ~ Matthew Arnold

#356

dropped @ Santa Clara Mission - Santa Clara, CA on 9/27/13

"Forever - is composed of nows."

                                ~ Emily Dickenson

#355 & #358

Kim & Margie . . . Thank you for a wonderful visit!

Crane #355 given to Kim @ Lagunita's Brewery - Petaluma, CA on 9/27/13

"Anything one does every day is important, and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."

                                         ~ Gertrude Stein

Crane # 358 given to Margie @ Lagunita's Brewery - Petaluma, CA on 9/27/13

"It is so natural for a man  to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it." 

                      ~ James Freeman Clarke 

For the first time I got my cranes out of order . . . but I think there may be a reason for that.  I thought I had already dropped crane # 355 last week (my mistake) and for some reason when I handed these two ladies a crane I was out of order . . . but maybe this was meant to be.  Margie looked at crane #358 and made a comment about the numbers . . . the way conversations go we talked about numbers, and she mentioned that her birthday was the 8th and I said that mine was too.  It turns out we share a birthday.

During our conversation it also came out that I dedicated this blog to anyone fighting a battle with melanoma.  Kim's husband passed away 11 years ago from melanoma.  Sometimes God just puts the people you are supposed to meet in the right place at the right time.

I dedicate these to cranes to Kim's husband - Scooter.

 

To anyone reading this blog . . . please educate yourself and the people you love about this disease. 

 

Ladies . . . I am so glad that we had the chance to meet you this past weekend.  Thanks again for a wonderful visit!

#354

dropped @ tennis courts - CHS - Clovis, CA on 9/13/13

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.  ~ Diane Arbus

#353

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 9/13/13

"It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example."

                            ~ Seneca

#352

dropped @ tennis courts - CHS - Clovis, CA on 9/8/13

"The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than happiness."  ~ Graham Greene

#351

dropped @ California Imaging Center - Fresno, CA on 9/4/13

"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery is involves."  ~ Logan Pearsall Smith