A gift for a migration

A friend of mine is leaving for New York soon to go to graduate school. I'll miss her. She's someone I met fairly recently, but as happens sometimes, circumstance and personality made things click.

It's hard to give a gift when you know someone's travelling light, so I decided to make her a couple of origami hummingbirds. They weigh next to nothing, can get packed flat for travel and then eased back out into shape once she's settled in that big city.

Why hummingbirds? The ones I've known just appear one day, and you're glad they came. They stick around, and you start to get comfortable in their company. Then suddenly they're gone, off to whereever it is hummingbirds go. But you know they'll come back — and you'll be glad to see them when they do.