Contrary to what we expected, we don’t do less because we live in the desert-what has changed is how we do things, and of course the insane landscape and view between point A and point B.ĭesert life has offered us the opportunity to slow ordinary moments of each day down-to spend time with a morning ritual, to host our friends with a home cooked meal.

We still work, we still sleep, eat, create, and play. But we forgot one important thing: no matter the location, our lives in fact remain our lives. It would be like an extended yoga retreat of sorts. We dreamt that every day we’d do yoga, hike, and read books. Our expectations of the move from city to rural were copious. We moved for a variety of reasons-a lower cost of living (though coming from San Francisco most places are), a desire to be more connected to nature, to work remotely as freelance designers, and simply because every time we came to Joshua Tree it broke our hearts to leave. Over the weekend we celebrated two years of full-time desert living.

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