Steady

There's a kind of strength nobody applauds, because it doesn't look like anything from the outside. It looks like getting up. Making the appointment. Sitting in the chair again. Answering the phone when you already know what they're going to say.

This ring is a wide, solid band, cut with sharp angled lines — like mountain ridges, or like the marks left on something that carried a heavy load for years and stayed standing. It's substantial on the hand. It's meant to be.

Wear Steady for the diagnosis you outlasted. For the months you spent caring for someone who couldn't care for themselves. For the hardship you raised children through without them ever knowing how close it was. For the storm that had your name on it, and the fact that you're still here to wear the ring.

Stack it with the rest — this is the ring that proves the others were possible.