Today, a treat: “Origami,” a short animated film by Kei Kanamori that was shortlisted for an Oscar, plus a poem of the same title by Joyce Sutphen.  By the time you’re viewing and reading this, it may have well won an Oscar Origami is the Japanese traditional art form of paper folding. Are you among the origami makers on The Raft? How will you fold the paper of your life? ORIGAMI Joyce Sutphen It starts with a blank sheet, an undanced floor, air where no sound erases the silence. As soon as you play the first note, write down a word, step onto the empty stage, you've moved closer to the creature inside. Remember— a square can end up as frog, cardinal, mantis, or fish. You can make what you want, do what you wish. (My thanks to both the filmmaker and the poet, via Poetry Foundation.)

Sometimes, maybe more often than we’d like to admit, our lives feel not so much like an art piece of Origami so much as a scrunched up ready to be waste paper basket food.     .      .

LOOK 
at the FOLDS of your Life
some of the greatest wrinkles/crinkles/folds aren’t the ones you planned or expected
which makes us always question:
IS YOUR LIFE FOLDING
                    UN-FOLDING
as you planned or even begun to imagine.            .            .            ?