One Year: In the Desert
Posted: September 23rd, 2022 | Author: Mary Jeys | Filed under: A Year, aspirations, Updates, works in progress | Tags: ayearinthelife, desert, workinprogress | No Comments »![](https://www.maryjeys.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/skyportal-673x1024.jpg)
September of 2021
We moved again.
I’d like to share with you some of the highlights of my first year in the wildly freeing and welcoming place I have been treating as a self-made artist residency and new home.
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Hello from “other desert cities”
The high desert which includes Joshua Tree, Pioneertown, Landers, Yucca Valley, 29 Palms and Wonder Valley is an area indicated on a highway sign on I-10 as “other Desert Cities”. I first came here with friends in 2019. After the pandemic insisted road trip escapes only, Hashem and I visited here and agreed it was special and inviting. Over the summer of 2021, we took the plunge to make this “other” rural desert our home.