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Ronald Ringsrud Company

Gaita is Colombian and is a treat for lovers of rhythm and ethnic dances.  For a sample of the primal Afro-Caribbean dance called Gaita click here. >>  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w-ATLz21VQ

 

RR Company has a special feeling about poetry and gemstones. In an industry that has gotten far too dependent on coldly objective certificates to tell us about our gems, we need to re-establish our warmly subjective appreciation for stones, either by becoming poetic ourselves or by using professional poets.

 

 

At the 2007 AGTA Lecture series held at the Convention Center I was invited by Richard Hughes to participate in his lecture on Gem Travel and the Future of Gemology. As a published scientist specializing in Corundum and Asian stones, Richard Hughes showed the crowd his poetic side as he ended his excellent slide lecture with sentiments on finding kindness in the most remote locations. These values of the heart are what gems are all about.  Then I spoke on my favorite subject: the boundary-breaking force that fine gemstones possess. All analytical processes stop abruptly as one's attention surrenders itself to the subjective qualities of a gem: timelessness, allure, charm, primal beauty, elemental color, and attraction. A connoisseur can shift from analytical perception (objective perception) to joyful surrender (subjective perception) in an instant; such an instant reveals the shoulders of the connoisseur dropping and his face brightening. These are the physiological markers of the brain shifting from analytical left-brain activity to contextual holistic fuctioning of the whole brain (unusually reminiscent of the physiology of someone falling in LOVE!). So YES, Doctor Hughes is right, it IS all about LOVE.

My ongoing 'Poetry Project' has been assisted by such notables as Dr. Edward Gubelin and Pablo Neruda, as well as National Endowment for the Arts grant winner Nancy Berg. The original inspiration came from none other than William Shakespeare's own sonnet, 'A lover's Complaint' (below). Please read on for the fruit of this work.

In the gem industry, fine gemstones get sent to gemological laboratories where certificates are created, validating them objectively (based on refractive index, specific gravity etc.) as natural gemstones. Now poetic validation is increasing in popularity to express the more important subjective qualities of the gemstone. Poets capture the subjective experience that the gem inspired. The resulting poem would further validate the gem, facilitate the buying and selling of the gem, and add romance. The allure, timelessness, uniqueness, wholeness, and fineness of a gemstone, while out of place on a scientific certificate, would be fully appropriate in a poem.

 "...And deep-brained sonnets that did amplify

Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality." William Shakespeare

(click HERE for the complete text of this sonnet)

Romance is an underlying theme relating to exotic gems like emeralds of Colombia. This Mexican Aztec image sums it up: heroism, struggle, triumph, feminity, partial nudity, surrender...Romance!

CLICK HERE for Romance and see why romance and adventure can very well happen at the same time!!!

Click HERE for Adventure Stories

 This image of the Emerald Gods by Victor Hugo Velazquez; Bogotá

CLICK HERE for a poem written by Pablo Neruda specifically about Colombian emeralds. This poem and a prose piece were from a private visit to the emerald mines of Muzo in 1972. They can be found in his book 'Piedras del Cielo' (Skystones)

CLICK HERE for Ron Ringsrud's submission to the International Symposium on Aesthetics

CLICK HERE for Cool Love Poems

Please write to me at ron@emeraldmine.com with ideas, submissions and hate mail. It would be interesting to enrich our industry with more close associations and communication.

 

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