The Simplicity of a Snowflake

Versatile: Both Good and Deadly

I remember Christmas card winters in New Hampshire with Nor’easter storms that robbed it of color. We awoke to find our whole world pristine and totally white.

Later, in Pennsylvania, there were magnificent scenes Norman Rockwell could only dream about, from winters that brought more of the same.

I always wondered how such tiny things as snowflakes could both muffle and insulate to transform noise into pure and absolute silence.

It amazed me how weightless single snowflakes could all join together and cause a snow shovel to be so heavy it took all my shoulder strength just to lift and toss it.

Children are quick to recognize there’s magic in the humble snowflake. They also know how best to direct that magic. They will gather and roll enough snowflakes together to create a snow being, or an igloo playhouse, and if needed, even weapons to hurl for protection.

But woe is the being that witnesses the dark side of a snowflake. They’ve seen what happens when snowflakes join together and swallow a vehicle that was brave enough to stay out in a storm. They hide black ice, block roads and clog driveways –-sorrow haunts the other side of a snowflake.

Humanity could take a valuable lesson from the lowly snowflake. It’s tiny and beautiful, but helpless alone. When enough join together and focus, there is no way to measure what all they can accomplish.

If the same snowflake magic were applied to humans and we all joined together, great things could manifest. We could change the world and drive out the dark side forever …

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