Be a Snowflake

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 "Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coal-mouse asked a wild dove. 

"Nothing more than nothing," was the answer.  

"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coal-mouse said. I sat on a branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow, not heavily, not in a giant blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence. Since I didn't have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch--nothing more than nothing as you say--the branch broke off." 

Having said that, the coal-mouse flew away. The dove, since Noah's time an authority on the matter, thought about the story for a while and finally said to herself: "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come about in the world."

--From New Fables Thus Spoke, "The Carabou," by Kurt Kauter, republished in PEACEMAKING: Day by Day, by Pax Christi USA, the National Catholic Peace Movement

  

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