Billboard blog post

The beautiful billboard looms above the traffic jam -- a lovely Lady wearing a strand of jewelry.

With due respect to the jewelry company who paid for the ad, far more wonderful in my eyes is the Woman who is wearing their product - whoever She is, wherever She lives.

Jewelry is but glossy stones. Its beauty is limited. She has life. She thinks, walks, speaks and Her beauty is limitless.

True, time will change Her living loveliness, draw lines upon that complexion and at the edges of those pretty eyes, while that jewelry might glimmer unchanged a thousand years from now.

But it is also possible, in that distant day that those stones could lie lost in a drawer or a garbage dump, while Her beauty lives on in words well written; in some aspect of science that Her mind spurred forward; or in the eyes of a great grandchild.

Stones are helpless in the matter of destiny -- the Hope diamond could not stop the hands that trimmed it from its original magnificence -- but She, She lives and She has power to change the world.

Audrey Hepburn's dress sold for nearly $500,000, not because of the cut of the cloth or the fabric from which it was made, but because of the legend who once wore it.