David's Blog

On a rainy Saturday at the museum, a grandfather tells his bored grandson about the night in 1964 when three young men climbed through a window and stole the Star of India.

A young London jeweler watches a shy nineteen-year-old show the world her sapphire. Thirty years later, with her granddaughter beside her, she watches that same ring come home.

In a quiet house above a Swiss lake, Josephine's daughter hands her son a little sapphire and diamond ring, and tells him the love story behind it.

On a cold night in Westminster Abbey, an old monk tells a young novice the legend of the king who gave his sapphire ring to a beggar, and the two pilgrims who brought it home.

A medieval tale of a goldsmith, his apprentice, a bishop's sapphire ring and one very surprised spider, inspired by what people of the Middle Ages truly believed about sapphire.

An old legend says the whole world rests on a giant sapphire, and that the sky is blue because of it. Here is that legend, told the way it might have been told around a fire long ago.