Visit, heck a place to live. This link about India's widows is a little different, but meditating spiritual Fairfield is showing something like this in old TM movement people moving to [meditating] Fairfield as like a retirement village for old meditators. Noticeably like a growing reserve of spinster retiring spiritual. People can live a life on SSI and a little more here like with the supplemental 'Invincible America' grant money program for meditating in the Domes with the large group.
Like India's Widows moving to be together... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21859622 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" wrote: > > Yep, Fairfield. Living in accord with natural law, a place where village > design, energy, shelter, water, gardening, farming, waste recycling, and > landscaping are done in a way that is in tune with natural law. In tune with > natural law means, at a minimum, that the systems we use to obtain the > services listed above do not destroy or damage the larger systems of the > earth that maintain a hospitable environment for life on our planet. Wherever > possible, these services are provided in a way that not only sustains but > enhances the ability of the earth to clean our air and water, maintain the > balance of gases in the atmosphere, and in general provide a beautiful and > safe place to live. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <dickmays@> wrote: > > > > Smithsonian Magazine > > The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2013 > > > > Web page for the main article: > > http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/The-20-Best-Small-Towns-to-Visit-in-2013-196855051.htmlSmithsonian.com > > > > Web page for #7 Fairfield article: > > http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/The-20-Best-Small-Towns-to-Visit-in-2013-196855051.html?c=y&page=8&navigation=next#IMAGES > > > > TRAVEL > > The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2013 > > From the blues to the big top, we've picked the most intriguing small towns > > to enjoy arts and smarts > > By Susan Spano > > Smithsonian magazine, April 2013 > > «« Previous | 8 of 22 | Next »» > > > > (© Charles Ledford) > > 7. Fairfield, IA > > > > Fairfield sits in an undulating landscape with farmhouses, silos, barns and > > plenty of sky. A railroad track runs through town and there's a gazebo on > > the square. You have to stick around to learn about things you'd never find > > in Grant Wood's American Gothic, like the preference for east-facing front > > doors. That's the orientation prescribed by Transcendental Meditation > > movement founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose followers went looking for a > > place to start a university and landed in the cornfields of southeast Iowa. > > > > The Maharishi University of Management now offers B.A.'s in 13 fields, > > among them Vedic science and sustainable living. With students riding bikes > > and plugged into iPods, it looks like any other college campus, except for > > twin gold-domed buildings where practitioners gather to meditate twice a > > day. > > > > Fairfield could stand as a case study from The Rise of the Creative Class, > > Richard Florida's book on the link between educated populations and > > economic development. Fairfield got the one when the college opened its > > golden domes, drawing accomplished people who saw its sweetness; it got the > > other when they started dreaming up ways to stay. "Everyone who arrived had > > to reinvent themselves to survive," said mayor (and meditator) Ed Malloy. > > > > The economy started perking in the 1980s with e-commerce and dot-coms, > > earning Fairfield the name "Silicorn Valley," then launched start-ups > > devoted to everything from genetic crop-testing to investment counseling. > > Organic farmer Francis Thicke keeps the radio in his barn tuned to Vedic > > music; his Jerseys must like it because everyone in town says that Radiance > > Dairy milk is the best thing in a bottle. > > > > But there's more than mellow. The new Maasdam Barns Museum, with buildings > > from a farm that raised mighty Percheron horses, displays agricultural > > machines made by the local Louden Company. A walking tour passes the > > rock-solid, Richardson Romanesque courthouse, a Streamline Moderne bank, > > Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired residences and myriad examples of Vedic > > architecture. > > > > Artists and performers find they can afford to live in Fairfield. ICON, > > which specializes in regional contemporary art, joins galleries and shops > > in hosting a monthly art walk, featuring the work of some 300 local artists. > > > > The striking new Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts welcomes > > acts from chamber groups to Elvis impersonators. The soon-to-open Orpheum > > Theater will offer something that is dying out in big citiesan art movie > > house. > > > > Solar panels help banish electricity bills at Abundance Eco Village, an > > off-the-grid community on the edge of town. But it's less about altruism > > than well-being in Fairfield. Take, for instance, the quiet zones, recently > > instituted at railroad crossings to silence incessant train whistles; newly > > planted fruit trees in city parks; and Fairfield's all-volunteer, > > solar-powered radio station, producing 75 homegrown programs a year. > > "Fairfield," says station manager James Moore, a poet, musician, tennis > > teacher and meditator, "is one of the deepest small ponds you'll find > > anywhere." > > >
