Maine’s Great Waves Earrings, Blue Topaz

Maine’s Great Waves Earrings

There are times when the wind is strong and the seas are high. The days when you stand in awe before the power and majesty of the sea, to hear the thunder of the waves, to smell the salt of the sea’s wind and watch gulls wing against leaden gray skies. These are the days of Maine’s great waves.

Cranberry Cliffs, Cape Elizabeth

Great Waves Adirondack Chairs

Waves at Crystal Cove

Every Wave Has It’s Own Story, It’s Own Sound

I’m a lifelong wave watcher. Mornings in the summer I go down on the cliffs to sit and watch the wind, waves, and the coming and going of the tides. Did you know that no two waves as they come ashore ever make exactly the same sound? Each wave has a personality. Each wave speaks as it makes landfall. Every wave has something different to say.

October 30^th Dawn came. Wind, pelting rain. Not good weather to sit on the cliffs.

7:13AM Out the window the coast is getting a thrashing. Rain on the windows. A white SUV comes down the road. Can see the big waves on the shore.

7:38AM I’m dressed. Yellow raincoat, green Adirondack chairs at the shore. Waves pounding. 20 footers coming in over the space between the rocks filling the canyon. Gulls flying.

7:44AM Crystal Cove. Clouds parting. Rain has stopped. Sea this morning is an extra 5 feet high. Cove is full. Clouds racing. Waves pounding.

7:49AM On the height of land, beside Crystal Cove, Cranberry colored leaves. Waves, salt, spray. Sun burning through.

Winter Waves Are Best

I feel sorry for the out-of-staters because they are so seldom here late fall, winter, and early spring when the best sea storms arrive. The key is to wake up early, dress appropriately, and be ready to take it all in. Summer storms can be good. What is considered “off season” (which to me seems like “high season”) is among the best times of year to live on the coast of Maine.

Blue Sky Topaz

The Blue Zones of Happiness

Blue is the color of health and well-being. Blue is the color of youth and vitality. Blue is the color of peace and happiness.

Earth has seven Blue zones. Seven places where people live longer with vim and vigor. A Blue Zone is not just about more time, it’s more time with a true quality of life. The Blue Zone mindset is about time for discovery, wisdom and work.

Blue Zones are not merely magic places on the globe. Rather, they are places with a population of people who believe in wellness, people who never stop thinking, participating or creating. They subscribe to a lifetime of art and imagination, a lifetime of discovery.

People who live to be 100 don’t simply stop at 65. they have 10, 20, 30 years of additional active participation. They have more to contribute.

Do you have to pick up and move to a Blue Zone for an extra 20 years? Do you have to sell your house, say goodbye to your friends and family? Do you move to Japan, Costa Rica or Sardinia and not see your grandchildren grow up to achieve an extra 20?

A Blue Zone is not about place, although these places exist within our world. Blue Zone is really about attitude, belief and philosophy. Yes, it would be nice to live in a place where everyone lived a very long time. Blue Zone living is easier than you might imagine. It’s a decision you make, a decision that exists inside of you. It’s a shift of your consciousness.

Is Blue Sky, Blue Zone a gem of magic? Yes-maybe-no, It is if you want it to be. It is magic if you choose it to be. It is magic if you decide, because living the Blue Zone life simply makes sense.

Blue Topaz is an amazing gem. It occurs in various shades of blue. At Cross, we choose the prettiest shades of pastel blue, they are the colors in the middle. Our Blue Sky Topaz is the third hardest gem after diamond which means it’s highly resistant to scuffing and scratching. Blue Topaz has a high refractive index (jeweler talk) which means that when a gem is cut properly, it’s the most sparkly bright brilliant pastel blue gem in nature!

Your new Blue Topaz is with you every day to remind you of the guiding principles of what is truly important.

The World’s Happiest Places

These are the seven places in the world where the longest lived happiest people live.