
Not sure if it would be too complicated but it would be great to take the "poem" idea discussed at Tuesday's meeting and add a peace crane element to it. peace cranes have become an important symbol in the post Hiroshima world. look at the inspiring words below. anyways, people could write their statement on origami paper... we could take it to copy machine and copy the poems together and then later in the service do a mass origami project together and fold the cranes together.
i can stop tomorrow and buy a bunch of origami paper....
Sadako's Story
The paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of it's connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki born in 1943. Sadako was two years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. As she grew up, Sadako was a strong, courageous and athletic girl. In 1955, at age 11, while practicing for a big race, she became dizzy and fell to the ground. Sadako was diagnosed with Leukemia, "the atom bomb" disease.
Sadako's best friend told her of an old Japanese legend which said that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. Sadako hoped that the gods would grant her a wish to get well so that she could run again. She started to work on the paper cranes and completed over 1000 before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age of twelve.