A SLIPPERY SLOPE Declining accuracy in the trade The biggest controversy yet appeared on my daily feed about a week ago: The Bureau of Indian Standards no longer authorizing Lab-Grown Diamonds to be called Diamonds. Now you tell me — would you call an apple an orange because it was grown in a greenhouse? Or more scandalously yet, are IVF babies not real babies because the process requires artificial insemination? I’ve made posts before emphasizing the scientific importance

THE INSPIRATION It comes when you make time Not long ago, I stumbled on a Facebook post relating that oftentimes creative women will postpone their time for art. They will paint or draw once the house is clean, when the meals are made… but inspiration doesn’t wait for the chores to be over or for you to convince yourself that you deserve to slow down. Inspiration is like the spasm of a muscle; brief, passionate yet strong. And we need to make the most of it or train it if we

FIRST MAKE ROOM Manifestation isn’t magic The New Moon in the sign of Cancer on June 25, 2025 served as a turning point for me. I don’t overly dedicate my life to honouring the moon cycles, although Yasmin Boland’s approach is quite powerful. I find myself too busy to rest enough to integrate this. Like many check-list complete-a-holics, I swear by my daily list of goals and set new ones as soon as they are done. I don’t breathe in between or let the 10 second dopamine high o

SAY YES TO THE SPARKLE A greater idea of love DeBeers has done an amazing thing: creating the modern cultural association that Diamonds are a symbol of love (and implicitly, the bigger and the more expensive the Diamond, the more love there is). They did so in their 1947 campaign slogan written by copywriter Frances Gerety, ''A Diamond is Forever'' to promote it as the token of eternal commitment and to place the Diamond engagement ring on the map amongst Hollywood celebrity