Funny you mention Sonoma, as that is where I currently reside, ....
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote:
>
> On 07/24/2012 01:59 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> >> On 07/24/2012 01:36 PM, turquoiseb wrote:
> >>> ...at sunset, with a light fog rising from the canals...
> >>>
> >>> [https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/285793_30402501302\0523_1099026206_n.jpg]
> >> You forgot to finish the render. :-D
> > It's not mine; I found it somewhere on another forum.
> > It's some artist's imagining of the legendary Tibetan
> > city of Shambhala.
> >
> > But I found it just after a sunset walk around my town,
> > and there was a quality of silence to the painting/
> > graphic that I had just immersed myself in here. What-
> > ever is going on on the surface of life, the silence
> > here is never far enough away to not be noticed.
>
> Let's not forget that Fairfiled is sort of an ashram since probably the
> majority there are TMers or ex-TMers. That's why they may not
> understand when I rap the "flatlanders" out here in the world as being a
> bit tweaked. They aren't experiencing those kind of people so much in
> FF as they might say in Chicago or even maybe Iowa City. Fairfield, I've
> always viewed as an "escape" from the everyday world just as I know
> people up in Seattle that moved to one of the San Juan islands as an escape.
>
> Fairfield also reminded me of Sonoma, CA but in the corn fields (or
> desert as someone pointed out yesterday) and Sonoma is in the vineyards
> (and not so dry). It is also a community with a number of new agers,
> maybe a bit more Sante Fe like.
>
