Diamonds to pearls, rubies to emeralds, dig or dive deep for sparkling, inspired suggestions you will find some gemsHumans are readily gripped by the power of tiny objects. Currently, the focus point is undoubtedly the smartphone a constant companion and a vortex for some kind of inspiration, encouragement, and perhaps a sense of self. What magic lies in this small box, just as the television, the wireless radio and the gramophone before it? But for far longer gemstones have held this fascination in our hands. Like the smartphone, we can glimpse in them, through a magical refraction of angled light and colour, another world in which our minds might disappear. And this absorption is almost more powerful when coveted, in the imagination, than when finally in our grasp. So precious gemstones in song are as much about the feelings they inspire as the objects themselves. They are a dream of perfection in our imperfect lives, but even so, as Confucius put it: Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
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