See, her Japanese crane worked
Wednesday December 11th 2013, 10:08 pm
Filed under: Crohn's flare,Friends,Knit,Life

Summer ten years ago, dear friends of ours were moving to another state and I didn’t get to do nor attend any proper goodbyes because I was in the hospital.

Their daughter Brynne, in middle school at the time, folded this beautiful little orange paper crane by way of a get-well card in the midst of their own upheaval of packing and change, preparing to leave her own friends behind as well as her parents’. Letting me know I was not forgotten at a time when that made all the difference.

I was very touched. I still have it–there it is.

One of those blink moments where you go, wait, how long, wow, it has been: a letter in the mail. It was Brynne and her fiance’s wedding announcement, set within a beautiful little paper doily folded just so.

Only, this time I can do something creative in return.


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how wonderful! (and isn’t it grand how we hang onto these little expressions of love and bring them out again at Christmas to remind us of special experiences from the past)

Comment by Bev 12.12.13 @ 11:51 am

It is such a joy to be alive long enough to see the generational wheel turn.

Comment by twinsetellen 12.12.13 @ 9:20 pm



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