Crane in Miniature

Lending a Helping Hand

Have you been to visit the other Crane Project? I check in every so often to see what’s going on with Judy, and recently, she’s been hitting a wall. She’s having a hard time staying motivated. I can understand that. Sometimes it’s hard when your goal is immense or far away.

I’m on a Post Diet

Impromptu Peace Crane

• Location: Crabby Jack’s Restaurant, Gorham, NH
• Date: Thursday, July 10, 2008
• Description: crane folded from a paper towel (from Roy, who is continually awesome)

I hope you’ll forgive me for being light on posts this week; some crazy things are happening around here.  For starters, I’ve had a headache every day — not always a migraine, but they’re still pretty bad.  Also, Seth’s been sick.  Having two sick people in the house is not conducive to blogging.  Or cooking, or leaving the house for that matter, although I did manage to snag a copy of Pride and Prejudice at the library last night.

Some big things have been going on.  I’ve felt happier this week (despite the migraines) than I have for a while, which is good news.  I’m looking forward to getting back into music: singing, piano, percussion.  I love that stuff.

I guess this means I’ll keep you updated, and hang in there because I do have things to write about, which means you’ll have things to read about soon.  Very soon.  Pinkie swear!

Outrage! Scandal!

• Location: Pikalo Pizzeria, IFA Villas Bavaro Resort, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
• Date: May 11 (?), 2008
• Description: yellow crane with some words on it.  I’m not sure which ones.  It’s some quote that I wrote down a few months ago and then gave to my sister and then she didn’t leave the crane for months.  Months!  But it’s a yellow crane with orange lettering.

My sister went to the Dominican Republic last week for a destination wedding (not her own) and left a crane as well.  I gave her this crane way back in February, and I guess she got a little stressed over finding the perfect spot for it.  This looks pretty ideal to me.  It’s kind of driving me bonkers that I can’t remember the quote/lyric/poem/words.

In lieu of a quote, we’ll have to discuss this article.  Summary: At some point during his campaign, Obama said he’d be willing to meet with the leaders of hostile nations.  Today at Israel’s 60th Independence day anniversary celebration, Bush insulted Obama in an underhanded way by comparing leaders who’d be willing to talk before war to Nazi appeasers during WWII.

Essentially, Bush is saying it’s a really dumb idea to try to put off war with preemptive peace talks.  I think I’d be okay with Bush’s stance on things — not saying I agree, mind you, but just agreeing to disagree since he’ll be gone next year anyway — if a member of Bush’s own camp didn’t let this jewel of a quote slip yesterday: “We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage with respect to the Iranians and then sit down and talk with them.”  Does Bush not talk to his own Secretary of Defense?

There is a difference in preventative negotiation vs. 5-years-into-the-war talks, but how is one any less honorable than the other?  I would think the first option deserves more commendation because when you’re trying to prevent something, that means both sides are already mad enough to go to war but very few or no lives have been lost yet.  It takes some effort to keep a cool head when you’re angry — I imagine it takes tons of effort to keep an entire nation cool enough to consider peace talks when all its citizens are angry, like after 9/11.  And we’re all angry now anyway, but we’ve suffered more casualties.  Could we have prevented the 4000+ US troop deaths if we had sat down and talked beforehand?

Okay, I’ve changed my mind; Bush’s stance is dumb.  This is not the Nazi era, and our weapons are far worse than they were when we first joined WWII, so going straight to war is a bad idea (not like it was good in WWII anyway), and comparing people willing to talk for peace to Nazi appeasers is tasteless, rude and unnecessary.  Jeez.  I don’t know if I have the heart to send Bush a peace crane — sometimes his choices irk me so bad.  But isn’t that the point of this whole exercise: to extend the olive branch to those you normally wouldn’t?  Hm.  I guess that means I’m sending the President a peace crane.

Oh, by the way, I think I remember that I wrote the definition of peace on this crane.  I think.

Cleaning out the Files

• Location: scrapbooking section, Joann Fabrics
• Date: Unknown
• Description: Unknown

There’s something strange in my neighborhood. I opened a flickr account today to show off my hawt!!!1!1! crane photos. As I uploaded my goodies off this computer, I realized that this photo isn’t on my blog. Unless you’ve seen it before. But I don’t think you have! Which means I left this crane on one of those days where I left six other cranes, and this one slipped my mind. I’m not even sure what’s written on this anymore. So I thought I’d show it off, and if you’ve seen it, let me know. The funny part is, I remember going back to see if this one was still there, and it wasn’t. Why wouldn’t I blog about it?

Oh well. I now have a flickr account to take the place of those teeny thumbnails that used to be on the Crane Project page. I haven’t had the time to fully explore it, so I’ll do that another day. And I’ll finish uploading everything I’ve got. And that’s it.