<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Wonderful story!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 27, 2020, at 10:51, UniversallyFemale via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">❤️Thank you❤️<div class="">~I LOVE THIS~<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On Oct 27, 2020, at 9:46 AM, Carlie Abbott via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">
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charset=windows-1252" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
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text-decoration: none;" class="">How many times do we wonder how can my one
voice make a difference? Last night I was referred to this poem.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
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text-decoration: none;" class="">With love,......Carlie<br class="">
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text-decoration: none;" class="">‘Tell me the Weight of a Snowflake’ from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">New Fables, Thus Spoke the
Marabou — </em>by Kurt Kauter. <br class="">
</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);" class="">“Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a coal-mouse asked a
wild dove.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);" class="">“Nothing more than nothing,” was the answer.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);" class="">“In that case, I must tell you a marvellous story,” the
coal-mouse said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);" class="">“I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when
it began to snow — not heavily, not a blizzard –no, just like in
a dream, without a wound and without any violence. Since I did
not 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 3,741,953rd dropped onto the
branch — nothing more than nothing, as you say, the branch broke
off.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);" class="">Having said that, the coal-mouse flew away.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);" class="">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 to the world.”</span></p>
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