(I know, how soon will I run out of crane puns/references, eh?) . So, on tour, I’ve been folding peace cranes down the length of France and down through Spain as far as, tonight, San Ramos – near the city of Murcia. I’m trying to do 10 cranes a day but I’m more concerned with the quality of the folding experience, its emotional feeling, than quantity. Lots of space for contemplation. Each crane takes about 5 minutes to fold: I’ve been thinking of seeing how quick it can be done, also whether I can do it in the dark… And each crane has a history and a geography, a time and place where it was ‘born’. I’m thinking of writing the date, time, place, and mood of folding each crane on a place on the paper so it appears on a wing when folded – haven’t done it yet mind! Each crane is bringing my thoughts and feelings closer to - not understanding but – appreciating a nuclear weapons past, present and future in different places and for different people across the world. Been thinking a lot too about our Mutually Assured Distraction gig in Brighton – watch this space some more. There’s something about the more we can create around Trident replacement – sing about it, joke about it, paint it – and not it, fold it… The more we may be able to counter it, work for some different way of being with other people, other nations, in the world. Get ready to pledge a bob or two to see our Nuclear Refrain book published by Punctum. Ad fold some peace cranes, think about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, about AWE Burghfield, Faslane Naval base, and alternative futures where people don’t die in huge numbers and other people don’t work to make weapons of mass destruction and a politics of distrust, bullying and fear.
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