“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”– Ben Okri, Nigerian author Until about 1800, all red gemstones were called rubies. With scientific advances, this changed, and many stones which had been thought to be rubies turned … Read more
Dorothy: Well, I-I think that it, that it wasn’t enough just to want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em, and it’s that if I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own backyard because, if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. … Read more
She asks for pomegranates.Her husband plants rubies on her neck.They are not the same. She is too shy for her thirst,but the butterfly inside is a desert aching for the sky.There is never enough sweet in her water. An old herbalist, neck heavy with corals,advises in search of zamzam and for the desertthat holds this … Read more
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it. — Mahatma GandhiThe ruby is July’s sacred stone. It is a gem that is associated with the base chakra, the vortex of energy that is at the base of our spine and relates to … Read more
They brought me rubies from the mine,And held them to the sun;I said, they are drops of frozen wineFrom Eden’s vats that run. I looked again,–I thought them heartsOf friends to friends unknown;Tides that should warm each neighboring lifeAre locked in sparkling stone. But fire to thaw that ruddy snow,To break enchanted ice,And give love’s … Read more