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January 16, 2007
Of Snowflakes and Doves
by de sententia
Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Those words struck a chord in me when I read them long ago. As I drove to work this moring, it was snowing, and as the snowflakes floated gently in the air, I pondered "The Weight of a Snowflake".
The Weight of a Snowflake
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coalmouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing," the dove answered.
"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coalmouse said. "I sat on a fir branch close to the trunk when it began to snow. Not heavily, not in a raging blizzard. No, just like in a dream, without any violence at all. 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 3,471,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch--nothing more than nothing -- as you say -- the branch broke off."
Having said that, the coalmouse ran away.
The dove, since Noah's time an authority on peace, thought about the story for a while. Finally, she said to herself, "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come to the world." - Source unknown
Posted by de sententia at January 16, 2007 03:43 PM
Comments
I'd like to see an animation movie made with the excellence of Miyazaki's SPIRITED AWAY which won an Oscar or two. Voiceovers could be Paul Newman & Robert Redford for the two major characters, with Dame Helen Mirren the Narrator. It's just what we need to be "point counterpoint" to the sex & violence which has become our standard fare. It'd not only BE good but DO some good simultaneously, even if the religious Right banned it for being a polemic for something or the other. See you at the Oscars!
Posted by: Arden C. hander at January 16, 2007 05:44 PM
