The Weight of Nothing - a story about peace November 23, 2007
Posted by dhconcerts in Creative Souls, Peace, Justice and Equality, Quoting Others, Storytelling.1 comment so far
Deb’s House Concerts
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*~~”The Weight of Nothing”~~*
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“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.
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“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.
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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.”
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Having said that, the coalmouse ran away.
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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.
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Author unknown. I found this story ClayZ’s page on myspace.com.
Must See TV … and, not because it will make you feel good November 23, 2007
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Deb’s House Concerts.
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