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Dude Craft: Cranes for Killian

I posted earlier today about my buddy Killian’s CD. Thank you for the tremendous amount of ReTweets and links and emails that I’m certain resulted in CD sales and also in some vitally needed funds for kids with cancer. There’s one more project going on that’s related to Killian in a more personal way. Being that you are all crafters of one stripe or another, I thought I’d share an opportunity to make an impact with something handmade…Here are the details from Killian’s mom:

“Killian is facing the reality of the end of his journey in this body. He continues to fight, HARD, but his body is failing. We are making plans…preparing to celebrate his extraordinary life. We have no details or additional information (Killian is LIVING each day), but would like your help in this process.

We are asking Killian’s friends, family, community…anyone who is willing and able to make origami cranes (any and all sizes, colors, materials.) We are going to need 1,000…2,000…3,000 cranes… as many as can be made, to include in his celebration. Read the legend of the 1,000 cranes at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki. Killian loves this story. Here is a website with clear crane folding instructions: monkey.org/~aidan/origami/crane/index.ht ml.

I ask that you spread the word far and wide…let him feel the power of the cranes, of the collective paper folding…. Also, I ask for discretion and to please have these delivered only to my attention (not the family) to:

Cat Cooke
c/o The Mansfield’s
PO Box 10
West Shokan, NY 12494 “

Thanks again for your past and future love and generosity. Oh, and here’s a link to the Flickr group where all the cranes that have been made so far are shown.

Start folding people.