Love Wins Bracelet

This bracelet started with a simple question - where is the color indigo in nearly any visual representation of a rainbow?

It's one of those things that, once you notice it's missing, you can't stop wondering why. In fact, if you ask most people to name the colors of the rainbow, they'll rattle off red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet - and somewhere in there, indigo gets quietly skipped. It's sandwiched between blue and violet, close enough to both that it just sort of disappears into the crowd.

Isaac Newton actually added it to the spectrum a little deliberately, partly because he believed seven was a more harmonious number than six. So indigo has been there from the beginning - scientifically, technically, officially - and it still somehow manages to get overlooked.

And for some reason, that seemed like such a perfect metaphor for what we're doing here that I couldn't let it go.

That's why this year's Love Wins is built entirely in indigo. Slightly changing hues, all living in that quiet, often-forgotten space between blue and violet. It's not flashy on purpose - I made it that way is because I wanted to make something for the people who feel like indigo.

The people who are there - who have always been there. Who are officially part of the picture, and still somehow manage to get overlooked.

If you're anything like me, you've felt that way at some point. Maybe more than once. Maybe for a long stretch of time where you started to wonder if being invisible was just your thing - the role you'd been quietly given that you're just supposed to accept.

I don't know what your version of that looks like.

Maybe it's a family that never quite understood you. Maybe it's a workplace where you work hard and the recognition lands somewhere else. Maybe it's a community you showed up for, over and over, and still felt like a guest instead of a member. Maybe it's something much bigger - an identity, a life, a love - that the world has been slow to make room for.

Whatever it is, I want to make specific bracelet to remind you that being unseen is not the same as being unimportant. Being overlooked is not the same as being unwanted. Being in the middle - between the loud, obvious, easy-to-name things - doesn't make you any less essential to the whole picture.

Indigo doesn't stop being part of the rainbow just because people forget to say its name. That's why I believe this year's design so perfectly encapsulates the idea I had - that regardless of our differences, love always wins.

Not perfectly, not quickly, and not without cost.

But it wins.

Love is patient enough to outlast cruelty. Love is kind enough show up, even when it's hard. Love finds the cracks in the most solid of walls and slowly grows through them anyway.

When you wear Love Wins, I hope it reminds you of that.

I hope it reminds you that you are not invisible, even on the days when it feels that way. I hope it reminds you that the thing you're carrying - the love you have for people, for yourself, and for the life you're building - matters. I hope it's a little anchor on your wrist that pulls you back to what really matters when the world is being loud, unkind and forgetful.

Because love wins.

Even when it's quiet. Even when it's indigo. Even when nobody remembers to call it by name.

It's still here.

Big Hugs,
Jason