"All beings in the world are strung on the Lord as pearls on a thread." - the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 7. Millennia later, Jacqueline Kennedy said, "Pearls are always appropriate." They make good company for both blue jeans and little black dresses. Starting with a seed, the oyster folds friction and tumult into its awe-inspiring masterpiece. Life's inevitable roughness builds the layers of our endurance, eventually manifesting into the pearl of our divine wisdom.