Gabriel

I Know What I Believe. I Hold It With Everything I Have.

The Gabriel Necklace is a bold, vivid, magnificently fierce piece that honors one of the most important and most personally admirable qualities a person can carry: holding to personal values with fierceness — the particular, bold, completely genuine commitment to one’s own values that does not bend or compromise or soften itself for the convenience of the people around it, that holds what it believes with the full, fierce, completely real force of someone who has thought carefully about what matters and has decided, completely and without reservation, that it matters enough to hold with everything they have. Shimmering silver, vivid orange, bright green, and clear blue beads come together around a dinosaur charm at approximately 18 inches in a palette as bold, vivid, and completely alive as the most fierce and most genuinely principled person in the world. Available in an approximately 18 in length.

Design & Materials

• Dinosaur charm — for the fierce, ancient, completely unyielding strength of someone who holds their values with everything they have; the dinosaur that ruled the earth with the particular, complete, entirely natural authority of something that has never needed anyone’s permission to be exactly what it is — a reminder that the most genuinely fierce people are always the ones who are most completely, most naturally, and most entirely themselves, and that the values worth holding are always the ones worth holding fiercely
• Silver beads — for the clarity and precision of a fierceness that knows exactly what it is holding and why; the cool, clear silver of someone whose values are as sharp and as completely real as the most precise and most luminous metal in the world — who holds them not with the vague, general commitment of someone who has never been tested, but with the particular, clear-eyed, completely genuine fierceness of someone who has been tested and has held
• Orange beads — for the vitality and boldness of a fierceness that is fully, completely alive; the vivid, warm orange of someone whose commitment to their values is not mild or moderate but bold — the particular, vivid, completely alive orange of someone who holds what they believe with the full, warm, entirely genuine energy of someone who is not the least bit apologetic about believing it
• Green beads — for the life and growth of a values-holding that is always, completely, and genuinely alive; the bright, living green of someone whose values are not rigid or brittle but rooted — who holds them with the particular, living, completely genuine fierceness of something that is deeply rooted and therefore cannot be easily moved, not because it is inflexible but because it is alive and growing and entirely, completely itself
• Blue beads — for the depth and openness of a fierceness that is as vast and as completely genuine as the sky; the clear, wide blue of someone whose commitment to their values is as open and as completely real as the most expansive thing in the world — who holds what they believe not in a closed fist but in an open hand, with the particular, wide, completely genuine fierceness of someone who is not afraid to show exactly what they are holding and exactly why
• Approximate length: ~18 in
• Handcrafted with care by Amelia Heir Art Designs

The Meaning Behind It

Holding to personal values with fierceness — the name Gabriel belongs to the archangel who delivered the most important and most extraordinary messages in the Bible: to Daniel in the lion’s den, to Mary at the Annunciation, to Zechariah in the temple. Gabriel did not soften the message or qualify it or present a version of it that was easier to receive than the real thing. He delivered it completely, clearly, and with the full, fierce, completely genuine authority of someone who knew exactly what he was carrying and exactly why it mattered. The most Gabriel-like people in the world are the ones who carry their values the same way — who know what they believe and hold it with the particular, fierce, completely genuine commitment of someone who has thought carefully about what matters and has decided that it matters enough to hold with everything they have, regardless of whether the people around them agree, regardless of whether the holding is convenient or comfortable or easy, and regardless of whether anyone else is watching. Their fierceness is not aggression or rigidity; it is the particular, bold, completely genuine strength of someone who is so completely, so naturally, and so entirely themselves that the values they hold have become inseparable from the person who holds them. Gabriel is a necklace for those people — the fiercely principled, the boldly values-holding ones — and for everyone who loves them and is made more courageous, more grounded, and more completely, genuinely themselves simply by knowing someone whose fierceness is that real.

A perfect gift for summer, autumn, or any season that calls for celebrating someone whose fierce holding of personal values — bold, rooted, and completely their own — makes the world around them more honest, more principled, and more completely, magnificently alive.

Every order arrives with a signature gift box, ready to give (example shown below the product)