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"Building Pearls"

             

Building Pearls
By Tom Hays

One of the important  steps to achieving a  fulfilling, more rewarding  life is to realize the ramifications of this simple observation:  A PEARL is the only natural gemstone that can be made in a human lifetime.  A tiny grain of sand or piece of dirt gets inside the shell of an oyster.  That creature’s way of dealing with an irritation is to coat it over, over and over, until it becomes a smooth thing of deep beauty, the pearl. 

Much like the oyster, we too must manage life’s irritants, those things that get into our shell.  And, like the oyster, we have to work at dealing with those irritants, learn to cope, to smooth and round, polish, maybe even enjoy, so that eventually, they become us and we become them.  All that we are as a person is a collection of those “pearls”, how we’ve dealt with the problems in our life, how we look at them now, the opportunities we’ve taken to build things of beauty out of what at first seemed like adversities.

PLATINUM PEARLS^® is designed to sharpen your pearl building tools.  To arm you.  To help you with the changes, the bumps, the rough spots of the next era. 

Welcome to your new life.

Tom Hays, Founder

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Platinum Pearls^® is an organization offering ways to learn to live a more fulfilling life through workshops, tours, retreats and other quality of life enhancement programs. Our unique programs and products address the spiritual, emotional and creative dimensions of midlife baby boomers.