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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AuDragon, post: 425857, member: 6974&quot;]Hi Toba,</p><p>I just love the beads and especially your story. They must have a huge sentimental and lifeforce value to you. It amazes me how sometimes it is the small things we collect in life that carry such value.</p><p>I have also collected beads during my travels and wear them every day. None as spectacular or as beautiful as yours, but they have huge personal meaning to me. I almost always buy a pair when I am emotionally or energetically attracted to a special place. Nothing as valuable or as special as yours though.</p><p>I have occasionally seen similar beads in the local secondhand markets in Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. I thought they were just modern copies, but I will now look much closer on my next trip. Thanks for sharing and the inspiration.</p><p><br /></p><p>My beads: Top is a ming necklace bead, then going left and right (to make the pair); Nanjing China; Ta Ton Monastery on Thai/Myanmar border where I taught conversational English to novice monks; 2 each from Nan Tien Temple Australia where I stayed; Nan Lian Gardens Hong Kong; jade from Myanmar; Hill Tribe market Thailand; and a single tigers eye from a monastery where I stayed in Vietnam.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]148977[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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