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The pocket-sized cloud

A little cloud learns that there is more than one way to help.

Stories · Read together · Original writing

Mila found a cloud sitting on her windowsill. It was no bigger than a sock. “I am too small,” it said. “The big clouds water whole fields. I can only make three drops.”

Mila carried a cup beneath it. Plip. Plip. Plip. They took the water to a plant whose leaves had begun to droop. “Three drops will not fill a river,” said Mila. “But we can start here.”

The next morning, the cloud returned. Mila added water from her cup, and together they watered the plant. They did not make a forest. They made a habit.

The cloud still watched the wide sky. Someday it might drift there. Today, on the sill, there was a green leaf unfolding. It stayed to watch.

Pause & wonder

What did Mila add that the cloud could not provide? Why did the cloud return?

Try a little activity

Draw something small that helps something else. Give it a name.

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