“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.”
Expansive Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
I have walked through many lives,
some of them my own,
and I am not who I was,
though some principle of being
abides, from which I struggle
not to stray.
When I look behind,
as I am compelled to look
before I can gather strength
to proceed on my journey,
I see the milestones dwindling
toward the horizon
and the slow fires trailing
from the abandoned camp-sites,
over which scavenger angels
wheel on heavy wings.
Oh, I have made myself a tribe
out of my true affections,
and my tribe is scattered!
How shall the heart be reconciled
to its feast of losses?
In a rising wind
the manic dust of my friends,
those who fell along the way,
bitterly stings my face.
Yet I turn, I turn,
exulting somewhat,
with my will intact to go
wherever I need to go,
and every stone on the road
precious to me.
In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
"Live in the layers,
not on the litter."
Though I lack the art
to decipher it,
no doubt the next chapter
in my book of transformations
is already written.
I am not done with my changes.
–Stanley Kunitz (The Layers)
Layered earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
“Enter with love the temple that is your own heart.”
Portal Earrings.
Handmade with recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Centered Air Pendant.
Handmade with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Centered Moon Pendant.
Handmade with labradorite moonstone and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Centered Rain Pendant.
Handmade with tourmaline quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
I am recovering. Finding my way back to myself. To my power, to my sense of inner freedom. It is time to rest, walk, create, write and trust. To feel my way through this. There is nothing out there that needs to happen. This moment is about feeling my way inside.
I am getting used to my inner vision, to new eyes that see who I really am. I take baby steps as I grow within. Old memories fall into place; I digest, sort out and process. Shedding my old skin takes time. I am gentle with myself as I grow and stretch. It is a time for gestation. I hold the space for this to happen.
Base Ring.
Handmade with chalcedony and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
I find there must some madness, a kind of blind trust in the unseen in order to create. An openness to let an idea happen, no matter where it leads. Sometimes the result is familiar, often it comes from a foreign land.
The intention is to explore. To fish for symbols that mean different things to different people. To carve a cave wall with images from an inner world, those seen with the heart.
Chamber Ring.
Handmade with moonstone and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Eyes that become seeds, that become portals.
Portal Ring.
Handmade with carnelian and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
I see all the layers of who I am.
Strata Ring.
Handmade with jade and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
Open to receive the world with open arms.
Midwife Ring.
Handmade with chrysocolla and recycled sterling silver.
Next week in my online shop.
Darkness showed me the way back home.
Lighthouse Ring.
Handmade with black star diopside and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
The day came when she realized her own beauty.
Embodied Ring.
Handmade with amethyst and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
One of the wisest and most challenging lessons I’ve learnt, is that I can trust my body. It knows when I like something or when I am repelled by it. It tells me who to trust, when to open up, and when it’s time to say goodbye. The guidance I sought in others, was inside all along.
Compass Ring.
Handmade with labradorite and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Insight Ring.
Handmade with transparent quartz and recycled sterling silver.
Soon in my online shop.
