The Secret Life of a Snowflake: An Epic Sky Adventure

you feel a gentle push then a pull you are floating in a warm blue world last week we explored the magnificent coral city around you but now a new adventure calls the sun's warmth on the surface is a promise a strange lightness fills you you are rising you leave the fish and the dancing anemones behind you are not alone millions of others rise with you you are all becoming something new something lighter than air the ocean becomes a blue map below the continents are green and brown puzzle pieces you are a ghost of what you were invisible a secret traveler you are water vapor journeying into the vast open sky

look up others are gathering a great white fleet assembles in the blue you drift closer pulled by an unseen force you join them the journey as one is over the journey as many begins you are a cloud the wind is your guide now it pushes your great fluffy ship across the sky you see mountains capped with snow deserts of endless sand jungles so green they almost glow you carry a great treasure inside you the treasure of life but the cloud grows heavy crowded the bright white turns to a deep serious gray the air grows cold you huddle closer to your companions you change again a tiny crystal of ice begins to form around you the

pole returns not up this time down you let go you fall but you do not fall alone you are linked with other crystals you are a snowflake unique a six pointed star of frozen light the world below is a rushing blur of white and gray then silence you tumble through the quiet air dancing with a billion others you are part of a blizzard a great white curtain descending from the heavens the landing is soft you rest on the branch of a tall pine tree the world is hushed covered in a blanket of white you have brought stillness you have brought peace puppy adventure was never over not for you the sun returns its warmth is

a gentle nudge you feel yourself letting go again you drip from the pine mule a single perfect drop you splash onto the melting snow below you are water again you join a trickle then a stream then a roaring river you are on a new quest carving a path through the land you once flew over you give life to the trees on the riverbank you provide a home for fish finally after a long winding journey you taste salt you go home you are back in the great wide ocean but you are not the same you have been fable a cloud a snowflake a river you have seen the world from the sky and helped shape it

on the ground and the sun is warm on the surface a familiar pole begins the great adventure was about to start all over again