Hope In The Form Of Jewelry

After reading Brooke's post entitled "Sparkle" I thought I would post about my jewelry. After Camille died I visited a website called Lisa Leondard Designs and saw a necklace, that I knew if I ever were to be lucky enough to get pregnant again, I would want to purchase. When I went back to purchase the necklace it was no longer available. So I contacted them and they said they could make the necklace for me as a special order (how super awesome yeah?). I was so pleased. It has a small piece of one of my favorite poems by Emily Dickinson on it which states: "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul". It also has a pearl on it which is Camille's birth stone (stone? jewel? animal biproduct?). I wanted a tangible item that was close to my heart that would remind me to have hope, not just me telling myself to breathe over and over again. I really just love it.

Here is a photo of the necklace:

Here is the poem in entirety:



"Hope"    

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
   ~Emily Dickinson