Our Mother Lived to 96. She Wore Copper Every Single Day.
She never took it off. Not in the shower, while sleeping or on her wedding day.
We called it a myth. She called it tradition.
She grew up wearing copper jewelry every day, just like her mother did, and her grandmother before her.
"Stop wearing copper and suddenly everything becomes harder to bear."
We didn't understand it for years. Until we really looked at her and saw that she moved through the world differently than any woman we knew.
She had what I believe modern women have lost: something she put on every morning that connected her to her mother, her grandmother, and every woman who came before them.
A small daily ritual. Three thousand years old. No pills. No routine. Nothing to remember.
Her copper bracelet is on my wrist now.
Too late to tell her she was right. But not too late for you.