Butterflies are not free.

Gloria Gordon is a JTV watcher.  Jewelry TV, she says, is like video wallpaper.

She resists the urge to buy until sometimes, just sometimes, something is so terrific she can’t stop herself.

In the case of this butterfly ring — she knows how much I love the symbolism of butterflies …

how they flutter in the air, sharing their fragility & beauty with us… turning from the ugly

caterpillar into a wisp of elegance — and of course, “I never saw another Butterfly”, the sad

story of Terezin — and the little boy in that concentration camp who drew the butterflies

above knowing he would never get out alive or be free again — still rings in my ears…

for all these reasons and more, Gloria knows I love butterflies… so she found me one of my own.