Caring

Opal that holds water inside itself — care kept in reserve for someone who will need it.

Pink Opal · The Law of Passion

Family: Hydrated silica opal, coloured by palygorskite
Hardness: 5.5–6.5 on the Mohs scale
Colour: Opaque candy pink with creamy translucence
Signature: Up to a tenth of its weight is water it never released

The stone read as the word

Every opal is silica that trapped water and kept it. Pink opal from the Andes was carried by Inca healers, who understood a stone that holds moisture in a dry country.

Caring is the same discipline: keeping something in reserve so there is a reply when a need arrives. Not spending everything on yourself.

What it is carried for

Carried to keep a reserve for the person who will need one.
Held for tending that goes on when nobody is watching.