We've had out first 'significant' snow of the season. It's a bit early for Southwestern Ohio, but it's not unheard of. It fell on a Saturday, which was nice. Not a great many traffic problems; nothing cancelled. It was just a snow. Probably the first of many.
Some of the snow was the fine grainy sort. Some was more sleet than snow. And some were the big fat lazy flakes that drift around and land gracefully, piling up until they've whited out the world.
These snowflakes are lovely to look at, and the inspiration and reminder of the shibboleth about no two being alike.
It's true, of course. Some snowflakes are complex crystals, with many points and angles and loops. Others are seeming webbed asterisks, as breathtaking in their simplicity as the others are in their complexity
These differences are observed with awe, pointed out with pride, and honored. Every snowflake is as different and unique as its rise and fall through the clouds, the highs and lows of its individual existence.
Why can't we honor and respect our human differences in the same way? Why must we label and drug our children when they don't fit the cookie cutter mold? Why are our creative-minded adults also labeled and drugged into compliance or blind obedience? Are we not each unique in the same way that snowflakes are? Are we not created from the same basic material, then shaped by the highs and lows of our existences?
Why, then, is it an awe inspiring wonder for a snowflake to be individual, but human individuals are flakes?
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