Mirth opened on the evening of March 1st. Like most Marfa days, the sky was bright blue, sprinkled with perfect cotton ball clouds and cloaked in rays of sunshine. Maiya, the owner and creative director of Mirth was busy as usual...making mango cupcakes, homemade samosas and tending to matters of business...matters made more interesting by the very nature of owning businesses in Marfa. In addition to Mirth, Maiya owns a specialty grocery called The Get Go and an upscale Italian restaurant called Maiya's. The comfort Maiya alone brings to our small community of roughly 2,400 is incomprehensible unless you too have lived in a remote West Texas town with five restaurants, one grocery store, two bars, one-thousand pick ups and three hundred airstreams.
The Marfa way of life is certainly unique to most and lacking certain comforts but it is my feeling that people stay here for the moments Marfa, and only Marfa, can provide. Moments of unadulterated mirth, the kind of happiness that bubbles out of a person and touches everyone within the mile-wide radius. We have chosen the objects in our store because they bring us mirth and it is our hope that the store and these beautiful objects will make you happy too!
-Jessica for Mirth
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