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Copyright © Louis Schmier and Atwood Publishing.
Date: Mon 2/2/2004 4:23 AM
Random Thought: Students and Snowflakes
"I should hardly admire them more if real starsand lodged on my
coat," Thoreau wrote. and lodged on my coat," Thoreau wrote of
snowflakes. I was reading an article about snowflakes. Snowflakes. No
two snowflakes follow the same path of creation. No two snowflakes fall
to earth by the same course. No two snowflakes are alike. Over the course
of its life a snowflake may go through many different stages of growth,
experience a host of different influences, as the wind dances it from
cloud to cloud, from drier to moister or warmer or cooler environs, all of
them leaving their marks on the final flake. A snowflake is a dance
between destiny and contingency. A snowflake is a collision of physical
law and chance. Each snowflake is vaunted individuality. Each snowflake
is a marvel of uniqueness. Each snowflake has a distinctive beauty.
Sounds like a student, doesn't it. And, we should be no less
amazed at and enchanted by him or her.
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