The Weight Of A Snowflake . . .
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake", said the robin to the dove.
"Why, it weighs nothing at all", replied the dove.
"In that case", the robin went on, "I must tell you a wonderful story".
"I was sitting on the branch of a fir tree, close to it's trunk", the robin began.
"When snow began to fall - not heavily, not in a raging blizzard,
no just like a dream without any violence.
Since I did not have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes
settling on the needles and twigs of my branch.
I reached the number 3,741,952.
Then when the 3,741,953rd snowflake dropped on to the branch,
weighing nothing, as you say
The branch suddenly broke off".
With that, the robin flew away.
The dove thought about the story and said to herself,
"I sometimes think that all my efforts and the little I can do
make no difference.
We might think they are nothing at all,
but if we put all our efforts together,
great things are possible".
Anon.