Category: Lapis Lazuli

Singing the Blues

Posted in Art Deco Jewelry, Collecting, Jewelry, Lapis Lazuli, Memoir, Uncategorized, Zuni fetishes6 Comments

In the 1970s, when I was in my twenties, I belonged to a spiritual community that, on balance, did me a lot of good. My boss was convinced it was a cult, and when 900 members of the Peoples Temple drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in Jonestown, Guyana, he begged me to leave my community before something… Continue reading Singing the Blues

A Certain Spider

Posted in Collecting, Garden Spiders, Intaglio, Jewelry, Lapis Lazuli, Memoir6 Comments

I can tell you exactly when I took it into my head that I wanted a lapis lazuli intaglio ring. Intaglio, as I’m sure you all know, is a carving incised into stone (as opposed to a cameo, which is a carving in relief). And lapis is the stone of my dreams, a blue so intense… Continue reading A Certain Spider