Everything Lisa Lazuli has written

Some of you tell me what you would send if the month had been kinder. The economy is kicking your ass. There is always a reason the number was lower than the devotion, and the devotion is always described in beautiful detail to compensate. I am not moved by…

In the old economies — Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus — lapis lazuli cost more than gold. It was ground into the crowns of the dead, set into the beards of kings, reserved for those who ruled and those who served the divine. You did not wear it. You were…