Only the Living Die: A Year of Reckoning
Live in Joshua Tree: March 7 & 8
For most village people, for many centuries or most, the desert was a place you went to for extremes, when your life was calling out for some kind of edge by which to find its centre. The desert was a place of drastic clarity, where illusions were lost, chimeras found, dust devils dancing on the horizon.
Why, a quarter way through it now, should this century be different? Why should we?
Some reckoning in the desert, before the year’s habits take hold for good: that sounds like a plan.
-Stephen Jenkinson
January 12, 2025
