Staying True

Every day of the Abbey lately has been intricately unique and delicate, a snowflake falling in the muted silence of a snow covered forest. The thoughts of building the studio, the Abbey, would be gone, melted away if not built one atop the other. So it has been for the past several months, the days have kept coming, and almost unobserved the Abbeys creation has continued to build upon itself until I look around me and find myself looking upon a fresh landscape.

For a while it seemed the Abbey might disappear, be lost as I searched for a life outside the stifling generally consumerist and self centered confines of Orange County. I had a buyer lined up, my assets sold and all Love and I's remaining belongings in boxes. The Abbey seemed to be coming to a close as I knew it.

Yet, it didn't. There was a sense that it was not right, no matter how bitter the taste in my mouth of staying; leaving will be wrong. There is goodness and ability within these walls, leaving would see everything Love and I had worked hard for vaporize in my own selfish desire to find a community that I feel comfortable in. It would be wrong to take what is already so rare in these parts, a place to take jewelry where anyone can leave it in trusted hands knowing it will be well tended and loved, with skillful fingers and hearts of integrity, away. No, to leave is wrong, for it is the sick who need a doctor.

I will stand true to the Abbey. For there are good people here, people who want more than wanton consumption of the resources, earthly and spiritual, around them. I will bring a truly environmentally, socially, and personally conscious jewelry studio into this world, and I will do it in the very place that lives and breathes the poison that drove me to this cure.

With a fresh meaning to Everything,

Justinder




Photo by Justinder Singh - Scotland 11/2010