#430

dropped @ BevMo - Clovis, CA on 2/25/14

Open your arms to change,

but don't let go of your values.

~ Instructions for Life

#429

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 2/25/14

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

~ Instructions for Life

 

I hoping for some response on this crane.  It was put inside a book that will be delivered to a different library . . . if you find it - let me know.

#428

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 2/25/14

Pray.  There's immeasurable power in it.

~ Instructions for Life

#427

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 2/25/14

One day, she remembered that the only person who could make her happy was herself.

#426

dropped @ tennis courts - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 2/25/14

"It's not always about what happened, but what you did after it happened." 

~ Jessica Carney

#425

dropped @ Michelangelo's - Clovis, CA on 2/22/14

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."  ~ Ferdinand Foch

#424

dropped @ More Than Pizza - Clovis, CA on 2/20/14

"The soul, like the body,

lives by what it feeds on."

~ Josia Gilbert Holland

#423

crane # 423 given to Tammy @ Michelangelo's on 2/18/14 . . . what a pleasure it was to meet you and Jason.  

(I apologize for the poor quality of my picture . . . I guess I was doing more talking than paying attention to what I was doing.)

  "Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay." 

~ Dalai Lama

#422

dropped @ Teriyaki Don - Fresno, CA on 2/18/14

"Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do.  ~ Benjamin Spock

#421

dropped @ St. Agnes Cancer Center - Fresno, CA on 2/18/14

"You just have to trust your own madness."

~ Clive Barker

#420

dropped @ Target - Clovis, CA on 2/15/14

"When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of things that are." 

~ Richard Hocker

#419

dropped @ Target - Clovis, CA on 2/15/14

"It takes nothing to join the crowd. 

 It takes everything to stand alone." 

~ Hans F. Hansen

Blue Cranes . . .

 

 

I received some beautiful origami paper for my birthday.  These pieces were dark - so they wouldn't work well for adding quotes . . . but I wanted to share them because of how beautiful the paper is . . .

 "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.  Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." 

~George Washington Carver

#418

given to a very polite young man . . . (I don't know his name) - but we happen to share the same birthday . . .

@ Michelangelo's - Clovis, CA on 2/8/14

"Be curious, not judgmental."

      ~Walt Whitman

#417

dropped @ Michelangelo's - Clovis, CA on 2/8/14

"If better were within, better would come out."

~ Simon Patrick

#416

dropped @ I Love Sushi . . . Clovis, CA on 2/8/14

"My greatest skill has been to want but little."

~ Henry David Thoreau

#415

dropped @ Dai Ichi's on 2/4/15

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

#414

dropped @ Dai Ichi's - Clovis, CA on 2/6/14

Create

Enjoy

Dance

Smile

#413

dropped @ Michelangelo's - Clovis, CA on 2/1/14

"I do not exist to impress the world.  I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy."

                        ~ Richard Bach

Dedicated to Kyle

You have to Believe.

 

All God's angels come to us disguised. 

                               ~ James Russell Lowell

 

It's the little details that are vital. 

 Little things make big things happen.  ~ John Wooden

 

The Pause is as important as the note.  ~ Truman Fisher

 

If you want to be happy, be.  ~ Leo Tolstoy

 

Pray hardest when it's hardest to pray.

 

Faith in God includes faith in his timing.

 

Always pray and never give up.  ~ Luke 18:1

 

What if you woke up today

with only the things that you thanked God for yesterday. 

 

Let your faith be bigger than your fear.

 

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

                                                    ~ John Wooden 

 

I will walk by faith even when I cannot see.

 

We will wipe every tear from their eyes.  There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.

                                                           ~ Revelation 21:4

 

 

I am not sure where these cranes will be dropped.  Someone asked me to make them for a special dedication.  Maybe I will get some feedback and find out where they end up.