#379

dropped @ SaveMart - Shaw/Armstrong - Clovis, CA on 12/6/13

"Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."

                                         ~ Joanne Field

#378

dropped @ SaveMart - Shaw/Armstrong - Clovis, CA on 12/6/13

"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."

                                 ~ George Herbert

#377

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 12/6/13

"The greatest pleasure of life is love." 

                                         ~ Euripides

PINK Holiday crane . . .

Two words to think about as we start this holiday season . . .

Forgiveness & Compassion



#376

dropped @ Pho Delite - Clovis, CA on 11/24/13

"To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature."  ~ Auguste Rodin

Dedicated to Shauna

I left this crane at the Shrine of St. Therese in Fresno in honor of Shauna.   She passed away from a rare form of leukemia.   Shauna's grandmother asked me to dedicate a crane to her and leave it somewhere for some one to find. 

She was so very, very special

And was so from the start

We held her in our arms

But mainly in our heart.

 

And like a single drop of rain

That on still waters fall,

Her life did ripples make

And touched the lives of all.

 

It is so hard to lose a child that you love.  I have always felt that when we lose someone at a young age . . . it is because God calls that special soul to be with him for a reason only he knows.  It is important to treasure the memories that we have and be thankful that we had time we were blessed with them . . .

My prayers to Shauna's family.

Dedicated to Aleena

Today is November 17th - Preemie Awareness Day!
This crane is dedicated to Aleena . . . she was born at 25 weeks and weighed less than two pounds.  She is now almost 6 months old . . . weighs over 10 pounds and has a strength about her you can't help but notice.

  She is amazing!

"And though she be but little she is fierce!" 

                   ~ Shakespeare

#375

Given to Alyssa @ More Than Pizza - Clovis, CA on 11/15/13

 

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose."  ~ Charles Du Bos

#374

dropped @ Sweet River - Clovis, CA on 11/1/13

"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic."

                            ~Rosalind Russell

#373

dropped at Barnyard Shopping Center - Clovis, CA on 10/15/13

 

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." 

~ Alexander Graham Bell

#372

dropped @ Clovis High School - tennis courts - Clovis, CA on 10/27/13

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments."  ~ Jim Rohn

#371

dropped @ Audie's Olympic - Fresno, CA on 10/18/13

"Sometimes the truth hurts, and sometime it feels real good."  ~ Henry Rollins

 

#370

dropped @ Barnyard Shopping Center - Clovis, CA on 10/10/13

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

                                       ~ Vince Lombardi

#369

dropped @ Casa de Fruita on 9/29/13

"If you have much, give of your wealth;  if you have little, give of your heart."  ~ Arab Proverb

 

#368

dropped @ Casa de Fruita on 9/29/13

"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."  ~ M. Scott Peck

#367

dropped @ Casa de Fruita on 9/29/13

"Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour."  ~ Stephen Leacock

#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

 

#350

dropped @ Michelangelo's - Clovis, CA on 8/31/13

"Plans are worthless, planning is everything."

                                 ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

#349

Crane #349 given to Omar @ Michelangelo's - Clovis, CA on 8/30/13

Thanks for the great service, your great smile, and your advice on beer.

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." 

~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

Little Things . . .

Check out this wonderful commercial . . . .

Sometimes it's the little things that last the longest.

Exxtra Gum Origami Crane Commercial

#348

dropped @ Groggs - Fresno, CA on 8/27/13

"If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy."  ~ Madame de la Fayette

#347

dropped @ Groggs - Fresno, CA on 8/27/12

"All life is an experiment.  The more experiments you make, the better." 

                         ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

#346

dropped @ Seven - Clovis, CA on 8/25/13

"Best is good.  Better is best."  ~ Lisa Grunwald

#345

Crane # 345 given to Brandon . . . always a smile on his face!  8/10/13

"I never think of the future.  It comes soon enough."  ~ Albert Einstein

 

#344

dropped @ Red Wave Inn - Fresno, CA on 8/10/13

"One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery."  ~ Amy Vanderbilt

#343

dropped @ CHS tennis courts - Clovis, CA on 8/10/13

"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them?  ~ Christian Nevel Bovee

#342

Crane # 342 given to Melanie @ Spokeasy - Fresno, CA on 8/9/13

Thanks Melanie for the great service and the great smile!

"Strength is the matter of the made up mine."

                                              ~ John Beecher

 

#341

dropped at Old Doc's - Fresno, CA on 8/8/13

"Fear of the future, is worse than one's present fortune."  ~ Quintilian

#340

Always great to meet someone new and share my crane project.

Thanks Marshall.

"So many fail because they don't get started.  They don't go.  They don't begin."  ~ W. Clement Stone