@lissyflo Thank you love
You give me so much credit. I don’t think I’ve earned most of it! I think - objectively, because isn’t that always the gift of hindsight - I could have expended a lot less worry and wound up in exactly the same happy place! I’m at least confident that Andrew spent more cycles productively worrying than I did
This was definitely an... Impassioned is a good word... Project for me. Much more than I expected it to be. But I know you know that since you saw all six months of it! Reading your post - I had the startling realization that my younger self would have been every bit as invested, but probably wouldn’t have said anything about not being happy with the first strand, and that younger self wouldn’t have
this piece now. This project fell into my lap at exactly the right time in a lot of ways.
It’s a heart piece
@CMN -

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@Bron357 Oh. I know exactly what you mean.
I think the first time I felt truly awed by pearls was the moment I fell in love with them. I
liked pearls well enough before that, but until then they were just another gemstone with their own unique look and feel... But then I got my first Sea of Cortez pearls.
And I couldn’t wrap my mind around the idea that living, breathing creatures - creatures on *our* planet - were responsible for this... Magic. I remember seeing them for the first time and feeling so proud of what my world had made - and then feeling patently ridiculous because, yknow, being “from earth” is literally the one thing that absolutely everything shares!
You’re so right. I completely agree. Sometimes the greatest visionaries are the simplest. Sometimes they aren’t even animate. I know the oysters that made these Tahitian pearls had no idea how special their gifts were, but if I’m supposed to be the recipient of those gifts - I will treasure them!
