#birthmonth

[sweetlittledaisy7]

Birth mom right to privacy.

Sorry, I disagree with this. Adoptees don't get a choice in the matter. If a birth mom doesn't want a relationship, that's fine, but refusing to share where we came from in the name of privacy is wrong. Every adoptee is entitled to know where they came from.

If birth mom doesn't want to be found or wants privacy, then she needs to understand adoptee rights.

There's no reason why adoptees have to suffer at the choices of others. We adoptees have every right to know where we came from, no matter how hard it is to know the truth.

[ruthey97]

Pt 1

[sixminutestoriesblog]

sapphire

Children born when Autumn leaves are rustling in the September breeze, a Sapphire on her brow should bind. It will cure diseases of the mind.

We're in September and its time to celebrate this month's birthstone, the sapphire. Hailing from the same mineral family as rubies, sapphires, with their rich blue color, have long been a favorite with royalty around the world. Most recently, England's Princess Diana was famous for hers. Did you know that sapphires come in more than just blue however? Sapphires come in almost every color from orange to green to brown to even a clear, colorless kind. In Sri Lanka there's a beautiful pink-orange version of the stone they call the 'lotus flower' - padparadsch. Particolored sapphires are stones with two different colors in them. Found predominately in Australia, these rare colored stones have yet to be recreated in labs, making them true natural wonders. Even when you have a blue sapphire the color choices don't stop there. The blue can range from a light cornflower blue to a deep almost violet color.

But wait! There's more!

Some very rare sapphires reflect the light back in the form of a six point star, something known as asterism. The Star of Adam is one of the world's largest gemstone, a massive star sapphire larger than a chicken egg. The Black Star of Queensland is an almost black star sapphire once worn by Cher. And the famous Star of Bombay sapphire had the British name a gin after it, Bombay Sapphire.

Now that labs can manufacture sapphires, clear sapphires are most often produced and used as the 'glass' for windows that need to be highly scratch and heat resistant and are often used in high pressure or vacuum chambers. There have even been attempts to use them in iPhone screens. Sapphires are popular with lasers as well, since they can be minutely attuned to a wide spectrum range of visible and invisible light.

As mentioned previously though, sapphires have fascinated humans long before science found a use for them. Colored blue, the stone is often associated with the sky and leaving the more mundane layers of this earth behind. The ancient Greeks and Romans thought that wearing the stone would turn aside the ill will and envy of others. In Medieval Europe, sapphires were thought to call in the blessings of Heaven and were often worn by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church. In some Hindu beliefs, the sapphire was only meant for some people, bringing bad luck to others. To find which you were, you slept with the stone under your pillow for three nights. If your dreams were good, the sapphire would bring you enlightenment, protection and luck. If your dreams were bad, the stone would only bring you sorrow and better to be rid of it.

There is a legend that the Ten Commandments were written on sapphires.

Sapphires are supposed to be able to ward off the evil eye.

Lastly, sapphires are supposed to be medicinally healthy for the eyes, to ward against melancholy and to protect against mental illness. Mary, Queen of Scots, wore a sapphire necklace she could rub against her eyes to relieve the strain on them.

[jngggg]

new year's eve📷

[zackwhitefang]

As the day approaches, the balloon army gathers its forces...

It’s time to fight back!

[amanzah]

The only zodiac/birthmonth im interested in learning

[cheyroseart]

Colored Pencil, March Birth Set

[dyke-arachne]

Crying tears of joy.... in a knitting facebook group someone's selling four balls of a discontinued yarn that I only have two balls of. And I havent touched them for ages because two balls wasnt enough for anything I wanted to make LMAO. Miracle of miracles!

[drades-lair]

New video up on youtube!!

[jaiminiastro]

व्यक्ति की जन्म कुंडली में पांचवा स्थान शिक्षा, संतान और अपने इष्ट देवता का होता है। जानिए आपका इष्ट देव कौन है ?

अधिक जानकारी हेतु संपर्क करे - 8755455544

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1295

first posted in facebook march 30, 2024

nicolae vermont -- "reading" (1919)

"the person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid" … jane austen

"… but for my own part, if a book is well written, i always find it too short" … jane austen

"i declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! how much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- when i have a house of my own, i shall be miserable if i have not an excellent library" … jane austen

"give her a book, and she will read all day long … happy birthmonth kathryn" ... al janik

[ruthey97]

Pt 2

[disneyprincessbuffyannesummers]

it’s my birthmonth

[xkennybellx]

Empezó el mes de mis festejos. Estoy haciendo mi mejor esfuerzo para no ponerme infumable.

[sixminutestoriesblog]

June

birthstones: pearl, alexandrite, moonstone

birth flowers: rose, honeysuckle

[kagilasgilas]

"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age."

Bonus :)