ORIGAMI BIRDS from the WINTER OF 2004

When my son was locked in his 6 X 8 ft windowless cell (think of a very small bathroom you share 24 hrs a day along with another person) during that whole year of his marijuana prosecution, some days he would pass a few hours folding colored paper I'd send him into lovely little origami sculptures. I'd get a new one every now and then, folded inside a letter, and it would always make me smile, knowing he'd managed to find some brief escape, that for a short time at least that particular day, he'd been free in a sense.

'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity ~ Carved on the wall of his cell in the Tower of London by an unknown prisoner 300 years ago to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment.