Origami Angels of Peace and Healing

Anna’s fellow travelers here in the Lifestyle channel of the b5 blogging network are sending her lots of healing thoughts. We’re also ‘keeping her blog warm’, by posting for her while she recuperates.

She writes beautifully about a difficult topic: Grief and grieving. I have a great deal of empathy for Anna.

My family and I have had an unseemly amount of grief in the last few years, coping with life threatening illnesses, and with the deaths of family members, friends, relations, and animal companions. It’s been a difficult passage for us, and it has taught us a lot about compassion and love and gratitude.

I have found great healing in the fiber arts and in soulful dollmaking. Dollmaking can be profoundly healing. When dollmaking is approached in a contemplative and meditative manner, it is very nurturing and sustaining. I hope that by posting the tutorials for my designs for these origami angels, I will contribute to the healing of hearts that are aching.

Please Note: This is also a great way to take care of the planet…. use paper that has already been used – gift wrap, envelopes, magazine pages, paper bags, etc

Here is part one of the tutorial for Origami Angels of Peace and Healing, by Noreen Crone-Findlay (c)