I walked into the class this morning and was amazed by how many students had absolutely no clue how to make a paper snowflake. In fact, I believe it may have been about 50 percent or less who truly knew where to start. I relished in this because we talked symmetry and design and shape as well as what various cuts will do when you open the snowflake up before you very eyes. But I suppose I got to thinking about the importance of paper snowflakes. I asked myself this question: What has happened to a world where we don’t know how to make a paper snowflake? Because snowflakes represent the people of the world and every snowflake as we know is nothing like the snowflake next to us. If we cannot make intricate patterns we fail to recognize intricate patterns. If we cannot fold with accuracy and beauty, we cannot detect accuracy and beauty. When we create the equality we want to see, we can also recognize it when that folded paper becomes the flesh of another person. We practice what we want to see and to feel and to love. I took my own advice at the end of the day and sat down to make my own snowflake because quite honestly-it has been a awhile. And I was surprised to notice the beauty that crept into my own heart when I focused on the uniqueness of the patters and the shapes and the cuts that are carefully made to create the snowflake I wanted to see. It wasn’t perfect but then again-it was never meant to be.