Posted on Instagram on June 17, 2019

"Non quid sed quemadmodum feras interest." (Seneca)
(Loosely translated in English: It matters not what you bear, but how you bear it.)
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The last one.
Filled to the brim of meaning and connections.
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It feels like a lifetime ago, when I made this "sisterhood" of rings.
When I was at the brink of the brutal couple of weeks I just went through - but I didn't know it.
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This is the last one, and it's elusive to capture in pictures, rightfully so. It makes me bow to its magic (could be my poor photo skills, but follow me on the magic theory, it's more fun).
You may want to swipe and watch the video to figure it all out 🤣
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It features a pearl skull that I carved on the New Moon in April, which was kinda brutal for me, emotionally.
I am ready to share it with the world only today, on this Full Moon that has been...huh, intense, challenging in a different way.
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It feels like lifetimes and it's just a few months.
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I feel like I learned a little more about the dance with my own darkness. And that I can also embrace that darkness and love it deeply. That resistance - the hard shell - the breathing stuck - the back tense - won't save me as much as a soft soft heart will.
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The moth for the ability to live in darkness.
A tiny marvelous Iolite on the other side, to call the night.
A skull carved into a pearl, living in a dark pool of resin inside of it.