S ometimes compassion and healing can come from small children with big hearts.
That's what Santana High School students discovered yesterday when they received a handmade gift of hope. The 32 fifth-graders and their teacher at Helen Estock Elementary School in Tustin read about the March 5 school shooting that left two dead and 13 wounded. They decided to make garlands of origami cranes decorated with beads for the high school students. The idea came from a book they read about a young girl in Japan whose death from leukemia years after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima promoted a national plea for peace. You have to give them space in your heart.