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.010 - Memorials
When asked to do a memorial, I hadn't really thought I had one. My house doesn't exactly keep things outside of some pictures on display of lost loved ones like some people have. Little things, sure, but nothing is ever in the same spot. I have consistent collections of things like movies and toy trolls but I hadn't thought of them as much of a memorial.

What was an alter, I thought was the origami birds I strung across my ceiling using fishing wire. I had a count of them at one point but there's too many to keep track of lately. They're all folded not by me but a pen pal from Japan. Her name is Rei (Rei-sama jokely referred to for an entire summer when she convinced me that was 'chan' and not what it really is, which is about the equivalent of saying she's of much higher respect than I am.) I've known her since about 6th grade. She used to live her for a while but she moved back and now I could claim she's a 'pen-pal.'

Rei is amazingly allergic to those little packing peanuts (those styrofoam-y things. It's a polystyrene allergy) so when sending her something I packed it full of newspapers to keep the item safe. Unfortunately whoever was handling it spilled something on it and the letter I had in the box along with everything else was filled with newspaper ink.

The package I got back from her was filled with origami cranes to replace the newspaper and packing peanuts. ツルボックス which I think in English was actually 'Crane Box' but I've been calling them 'Package Cranes.'

I didn't want to throw them out since they're beautifully folded and there was so many of them so I strung them across my wall and sent her a picture. The next thing I sent to her had ones made by myself and she did the same thing. Since then we've been covering our ceilings in cranes and it creates a really beautiful color look when the sun shines through window and then through the paper. Depending on the box, I get about 120 cranes of all different sizes and colors. I think there's a thousand on my ceiling so I could probably make a wish on them.