After my last journal entry of celebrating life by way of my birthday, I'm very sorry to have to follow it with death. On Wednesday, April 16 at 8 AM my dad picked me up, saying my brother was in the hospital. Knowing how healthy he was and that it was so early, I knew it was an emergency. The short of it is, Brian Hardin, my brother for the past 27 years, died at 2:16 PM. I cannot go into too many details now but I will have another journal dedicated to him. For the time being, please read this:
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ersonId=107829355 It's hard to describe how awesome my brother is in so few words; in fact, he managed to make the front page of the local paper... that's just how he rolled.

The title of this journal, which was how one of my little cousins (by little I mean 22), described him and I couldn't agree more. He was insanely brilliant and brilliantly insane, always the life of the party and he knew EVERYONE. You think I jest, when I went to buy a suit for the funeral, the guy who serviced me ended up knowing Brian from an old Jujitsu class he took in high school AND this guys wife worked with Brian when he was a Physical Therapy Tech at a local hospital. Seriously, we're going to need a larger funeral home...
And although both my parent's and I have had a REALLY rough time since Wednesday, I've done more laughing than crying because A) Brian really burned the candle at both ends when it came to living life; another little cousin wrote "remember him as he lived, not as he left," and B) he'd call me a pansy if I cried too much.

So in some ways this is the hardest thing I've faced in this 30 years of life but more often than not, Brian had so much energy and there are so many memories of him, it's hard not to enjoy remembering them all. A few days before he died, the guys at work had ordered Chinese food and at the time I didn't understand my fortune, which was "Treasure your great memories and you will need not worry about ending a banquet." As long as we have memories of him, he lives on. Not only that, he was an organ donor. The cause of death was blunt head trauma so he was able to donate numerous organs, I hope. I have not heard everything he was able to give yet. So mental and physical portions of my brother live on, in this I find comfort and joy.
Devious Comments
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It's a Chopper, Baby!
Urban Exploration
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"victim, your cries reached the heavens,
but the angels didn't care" -Jackie Vargas
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Spasiantastical Man
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
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But you never were, and you never will be mine
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Well, the mute man told
What the deaf man heard
What the blind man saw in the night
He arose and he spoke
Come listen to my story
Of the man who devoured the light
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-Tired Al
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-feel free to browse my scraps
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
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-Tired Al
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-feel free to browse my scraps
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
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-Tired Al
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-feel free to browse my scraps
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**Scion**
Depending on wear in Kentucky you live. XD
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"Tinsel also can harm or kill pets, so it should be used cautiously in homes with pets."
-Wikipedia
Icon by =Fleana93.
I find they use "nearby" in the loosest sense of the term. I've seen nearby deviants half the US away... but I suppose when you are talking about the entire WORLD, that is pretty darn close still.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
Crazy nearby deviant, you.
>.>;
I DUNNO.
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"Tinsel also can harm or kill pets, so it should be used cautiously in homes with pets."
-Wikipedia
Icon by =Fleana93.
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Ignore the text above this line. The person that wrote it is CRAZY.
I don't think timidity has anything to do with lack of diagrams. It takes time to sit down and make a good diagram of a fold. Not to mention most people are more interested in the finished product being displayed. Personally, I've put up a couple of tutorials and plan on adding more. Of course, I get most my folds from books and always give credit to the author in my comments. If you see something you like from my gallery, you can find a copy of the book and voila! I just buy a book or two at a time so it's not too heavy on the wallet and having these books is a great reference. As for others, they'll let you know where they found the diagram if you ask. Oh, and there is a sub-category for tutorials. If people do make diagrams, they'll probably add it there instead of papercrafts. You might try searching for "origami tutorial" using dA as well.
Anyhow, I hope to see some of your stuff! I always love seeing how different people take the same folds and apply different styles to them.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
*sigh* Regrettably, I've been looking forward to joining a few clubs rather than simply finding origami. I enjoy individual models, but it seems everyone is too timid to put the diagrams to their models up.
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Well, the mute man told
What the deaf man heard
What the blind man saw in the night
He arose and he spoke
Come listen to my story
Of the man who devoured the light
I had originally joined the Artisan Crafts Club for the sake of origami. That was before I realized the origami category could just be browsed... Were you looking for something in particular? While I've not found any origami clubs either, there are many folders out there and I might be able to point out what you're looking for.
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.
If you like Celtic knotwork: *TheKnotters
If you like origami and other crafts: *ArtisanCraft
--
Well, the mute man told
What the deaf man heard
What the blind man saw in the night
He arose and he spoke
Come listen to my story
Of the man who devoured the light
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