As the first entry to my blog, it might be appropriate to explain the name of the blog. It comes from a fable that goes like this:
"Tell me the weight of a snowflake", a coal-mouse asked a wild dove.
"Nothing more than nothing" was the answer.
"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story", the coal-mouse said. "I sat on a branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when it began to snow, not heavily, not in a giant blizzard, no, just like in a dream, without any violence. 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 3,741,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch - nothing more than nothing, as you say - the branch broke off."
Having said that , the coal-mouse flew away. 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 about in the world."
Welcome to the blogging world! I appreciate the symbolism of the name you have selected.
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