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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

Clean Coal

Posted in Amber, Jet, Jewelry, Memoir, Mourning jewelry, Uncategorized, Victorian jewelry2 Comments

Sometimes I wonder at the things we humans deck ourselves with. Diamonds, for which I would sell my very soul, are a form of carbon: the hardest, densest form, with the most closely packed atoms and the highest melting point of any substance. (I’ve written about diamonds here and here.) But way down at the… Continue reading Clean Coal