[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
"An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and 
to take the world along with it," Mr Tillerson said.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 North Korea tension: China 'seriously concerned' about nuclear threats.

 China's Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China opposed words or actions 
that could further raise tension.
 
 Damn the Torpedoes. ..
 

 It is time to deploy for peace. 
 

 We need volunteers right now and then even conscription beyond this if we 
can't have the volunteers join in right away for world-wide service. Call up 
the reserves, even the young in their schools, the old too, the home-makers and 
the workers of our farms, factories and service industries, everyone. Like the 
old minute-soldiers of our frontier militias, the sons and daughters of liberty 
and committees of safety to deploy where ever they are, to stop in their busy 
outer lives and take the time to go within even for a moment's meditation where 
ever they Be! It is time to activate the transcendental meditator as mediator 
in field effect of peace everywhere.

The Dome doors open for meditation at 6:40am and 4:00pm CST

 For any who do not have a Dome badge, 
 there is an open silent group meditation at 5pm weekdays at 51 N. Court in 
Fairfield. 
 

 

 South China Sea Heats Up Again.  Philippine Army To Occupy Disputed Islands In 
South China Sea 
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/06/522891024/duterte-orders-philippine-army-to-occupy-disputed-islands-in-south-china-sea
 
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/06/522891024/duterte-orders-philippine-army-to-occupy-disputed-islands-in-south-china-sea

 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 from e-mail, it would be great to have an air conditioning program for N. 
Korea like Maharishi had for China before.
 



 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 'Damn the Torpedoes'?  We are talking targeted nuclear tipped warhead missiles 
there and If only one of those goes off anywhere over there..  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 China and Asia are back in the news..

 China’s Missile Defense Meltdown with the US:
 
 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39254254 
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39254254
 [read further down in this BBC blog through to the transcript interview for 
the insight. Yikes!]

 


 

 
 And deploy peace making to all quarters: Turkey, Russia, Syria, the whole of 
the Mid-East, Putin v. Nato/Europe, Crimea, Georgia, Baltic Countries, 
Sub-saharan Africa..
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Transcendental Revolution.. A call to meditative 'Inaction'!
 Enter the Vacuum State:
 

  It's the Ukraine, Russia and the Crimea too.  That part of the world has just 
festered too long in incoherence. The foreign policy of all good nations should 
be to deploy meditators in to the Crimea now, to occupy the Crimea with 
vibration of peace.
 

 It high is time to bring spirituality back to Russia and the Ukraine. As the 
science shows as is the experience we know, change in this case begins within. 
It is quite time to launch a landing of meditation in these troubled places. 
Mediation, Meditation in collective consciousness by more meditators for world 
peace. It is time to launch a spiritual blessing for that part of the world for 
a substantial lasting cultural change there for everyone's peace and 
well-being. It is quite time to at least bring higher brain coherence 
functioning, if the parties there don't want to talk about higher spirituality. 
At the least deploy there going in with more meditation, show them the science, 
and have them teach their school children to meditate for all kinds of good 
modern materialistic reasons if they ever want to have any competitive chance 
in the world for their people and the future of their children. Practicality if 
not just Spirituality. There is all kind of good reason for meditation to be in 
there. -U.S. Buck
 

 Peace by the Meissner-like effect of groups meditating:
 
 Creating an Ideal Society:
 The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole 
community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the 
Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME]. The 
influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation 
experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that 
even one per cent of the people in society practising the Transcendental 
Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and give 
an evolutionary direction to community life as a whole. With the growth of 
individual consciousness, family consciousness, community consciousness, 
national consciousness, and world consciousness are enriched. More than one and 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
The DM Register notes, 
 Eleven of Iowa’s ‘micropolitan’ areas have lost jobs since 2008 and nine of 
them have lost population. 
Micropolitan areas in contrast with metropolitan areas have populations with 
10,000 to 50,000. Fairfield as an outlier has bucked this some as one of two 
Iowa ‘micropolitan’ areas which saw an inter-10 yr. census growth in population 
(like somw Iowa Urban areas where the job growth is) since the great economic 
downturn. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

  Another 10 years and the housing stock in these small rural farm towns will 
be shot. They look really bad now.  The young and working of necessity have 
gone where the economy is.
 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is an article with good insight.  Good insight to a place and time. There is a 
lot of poignancy out there.  What was a mixed small farm economy is mostly gone 
over to larger landholdings and a class of some operators.  There just are not 
very many people farming living out in the landscape anymore with that mixed 
economy that drove small towns everywhere in Iowa and across the rural middle 
of the country.  
 

 Small mixed family farming just can’t hack the feedlot scale of animal 
husbandry. A result is the loss of the underlying need for the diverse small 
towns that supported the small farm.  Those left are riding out an aging 
infrastructure.  A lot of these towns as places with what was a range of 
hardware and food stores, schools and churches have no basis for existence, 
have no reason to be, and you can see the housing stock moldering away as the 
young and able have moved to larger towns, to larger places the Des Moines 
Register is calling the Micro urban areas and a few larger urban areas in Iowa. 
 
 

 Fairfield is one of the few micro urban areas of Iowa that has grown recently. 
 Fairfield has a few manufacturers, white collar employment and infrastructure 
that employs people.  As an employment base a portion of people commute daily 
to Fairfield, regionally and even from Iowa City, for work. Some number of 
gen-X are moving back to raise families.  Fairfield feels progressive in its 
elements.  
 

 This article explains a lot about that vast cranky area of Iowa that elects a 
Rep Steve King: no employment base, no children, and living out retirement. 
Some good journalism..   

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-kiron-iowa-pop-229-the-meaning-of-a-life-a-death-and-another-cup-of-coffee/2017/04/16/71203c06-2078-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?amp;utm_term=.ab98891e06aa=hp_hp-top-table-main_kiron-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory_term=.b77eaccd200f
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-kiron-iowa-pop-229-the-meaning-of-a-life-a-death-and-another-cup-of-coffee/2017/04/16/71203c06-2078-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?amp;utm_term=.ab98891e06aa=hp_hp-top-table-main_kiron-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory_term=.b77eaccd200f

 

 







[FairfieldLife] Lens Magic

2017-04-19 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I had an eye exam today with the optometrist.  With her lens apparatus, she was 
able to find the solution to eliminate the double vision problem I've had for 
almost a year now.  In vedic terms, I would say that she has a siddhi for 
correcting vision problems.
 

 



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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa Re:Rep King know one answered his querry

2017-04-19 Thread William Leed wle...@aol.com [FairfieldLife]

One sub group I suggest may be India & the vedic contribution  Re Africa Egypt 
certainly in my opinion at present/
 . I suggest the alien races. Nordics Grays & Whites, have well assisted us in 
much for hundred of thousands of yrs., India Atlantis Etc. Not much in mid 
Africa / Asia  The sub continent Bharat!


-Original Message-
From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
To: FairfieldLife 
Sent: Wed, Apr 19, 2017 1:22 pm
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa







 Another 10 years and the housing stock in these small rural farm towns will be 
shot. They look really bad now.  The young and working of necessity have gone 
where the economy is.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :


Is an article with good insight. 
Good insight to a place and time. There is a lot of poignancy out there.  What 
was a mixed small farm economy is mostly gone over to larger landholdings and a 
class of some operators.  There just are not very many people farming living 
out in the landscape anymore with that mixed economy that drove small towns 
everywhere in Iowa and across the rural middle of the country.  


Small mixed family farming just can’t hack the feedlot scale of animal 
husbandry. A result is the loss of the underlying need for the diverse small 
towns that supported the small farm.  Those left are riding out an aging 
infrastructure.  A lot of these towns as places with what was a range of 
hardware and food stores, schools and churches have no basis for existence, 
have no reason to be, and you can see the housing stock moldering away as the 
young and able have moved to larger towns, to larger places the Des Moines 
Register is calling the Micro urban areas and a few larger urban areas in Iowa. 
 


Fairfield is one of the few micro urban areas of Iowa that has grown recently.  
Fairfield has a few manufacturers, white collar employment and infrastructure 
that employs people.  As an employment base a portion of people commute daily 
to Fairfield, regionally and even from Iowa City, for work. Some number of 
gen-X are moving back to raise families.  Fairfield feels progressive in its 
elements.  


This article explains a lot about that vast cranky area of Iowa that elects a 
Rep Steve King: no employment base, no children, and living out retirement. 
Some good journalism..





---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-kiron-iowa-pop-229-the-meaning-of-a-life-a-death-and-another-cup-of-coffee/2017/04/16/71203c06-2078-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?amp;utm_term=.ab98891e06aa=hp_hp-top-table-main_kiron-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory_term=.b77eaccd200f














[FairfieldLife] RE: Waging Radical Peace, A Call to Group Meditations

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
North Korea tension: China 'seriously concerned' about nuclear threats.

 China's Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China opposed words or actions 
that could further raise tension.
 
 Damn the Torpedoes. ..
 

 It is time to deploy for peace. 
 

 We need volunteers right now and then even conscription beyond this if we 
can't have the volunteers join in right away for world-wide service. Call up 
the reserves, even the young in their schools, the old too, the home-makers and 
the workers of our farms, factories and service industries, everyone. Like the 
old minute-soldiers of our frontier militias, the sons and daughters of liberty 
and committees of safety to deploy where ever they are, to stop in their busy 
outer lives and take the time to go within even for a moment's meditation where 
ever they Be! It is time to activate the transcendental meditator as mediator 
in field effect of peace everywhere.

The Dome doors open for meditation at 6:40am and 4:00pm CST

 For any who do not have a Dome badge, 
 there is an open silent group meditation at 5pm weekdays at 51 N. Court in 
Fairfield. 
 

 

 South China Sea Heats Up Again.  Philippine Army To Occupy Disputed Islands In 
South China Sea 
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/06/522891024/duterte-orders-philippine-army-to-occupy-disputed-islands-in-south-china-sea
 
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/06/522891024/duterte-orders-philippine-army-to-occupy-disputed-islands-in-south-china-sea

 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 from e-mail, it would be great to have an air conditioning program for N. 
Korea like Maharishi had for China before.
 



 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 'Damn the Torpedoes'?  We are talking targeted nuclear tipped warhead missiles 
there and If only one of those goes off anywhere over there..  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 China and Asia are back in the news..

 China’s Missile Defense Meltdown with the US:
 
 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39254254 
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-39254254
 [read further down in this BBC blog through to the transcript interview for 
the insight. Yikes!]

 


 

 
 And deploy peace making to all quarters: Turkey, Russia, Syria, the whole of 
the Mid-East, Putin v. Nato/Europe, Crimea, Georgia, Baltic Countries, 
Sub-saharan Africa..
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Transcendental Revolution.. A call to meditative 'Inaction'!
 Enter the Vacuum State:
 

  It's the Ukraine, Russia and the Crimea too.  That part of the world has just 
festered too long in incoherence. The foreign policy of all good nations should 
be to deploy meditators in to the Crimea now, to occupy the Crimea with 
vibration of peace.
 

 It high is time to bring spirituality back to Russia and the Ukraine. As the 
science shows as is the experience we know, change in this case begins within. 
It is quite time to launch a landing of meditation in these troubled places. 
Mediation, Meditation in collective consciousness by more meditators for world 
peace. It is time to launch a spiritual blessing for that part of the world for 
a substantial lasting cultural change there for everyone's peace and 
well-being. It is quite time to at least bring higher brain coherence 
functioning, if the parties there don't want to talk about higher spirituality. 
At the least deploy there going in with more meditation, show them the science, 
and have them teach their school children to meditate for all kinds of good 
modern materialistic reasons if they ever want to have any competitive chance 
in the world for their people and the future of their children. Practicality if 
not just Spirituality. There is all kind of good reason for meditation to be in 
there. -U.S. Buck
 

 Peace by the Meissner-like effect of groups meditating:
 
 Creating an Ideal Society:
 The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole 
community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the 
Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME]. The 
influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation 
experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that 
even one per cent of the people in society practising the Transcendental 
Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and give 
an evolutionary direction to community life as a whole. With the growth of 
individual consciousness, family consciousness, community consciousness, 
national consciousness, and world consciousness are enriched. More than one and 
a half million people currently practising the Transcendental Meditation 
technique are constantly intensifying the Maharishi Effect and contributing to 
the Age of Enlightenment. The dawn is rising to the day. 

[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]


  Another 10 years and the housing stock in these small rural farm towns will 
be shot. They look really bad now.  The young and working of necessity have 
gone where the economy is.
 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is an article with good insight.  Good insight to a place and time. There is a 
lot of poignancy out there.  What was a mixed small farm economy is mostly gone 
over to larger landholdings and a class of some operators.  There just are not 
very many people farming living out in the landscape anymore with that mixed 
economy that drove small towns everywhere in Iowa and across the rural middle 
of the country.  
 

 Small mixed family farming just can’t hack the feedlot scale of animal 
husbandry. A result is the loss of the underlying need for the diverse small 
towns that supported the small farm.  Those left are riding out an aging 
infrastructure.  A lot of these towns as places with what was a range of 
hardware and food stores, schools and churches have no basis for existence, 
have no reason to be, and you can see the housing stock moldering away as the 
young and able have moved to larger towns, to larger places the Des Moines 
Register is calling the Micro urban areas and a few larger urban areas in Iowa. 
 
 

 Fairfield is one of the few micro urban areas of Iowa that has grown recently. 
 Fairfield has a few manufacturers, white collar employment and infrastructure 
that employs people.  As an employment base a portion of people commute daily 
to Fairfield, regionally and even from Iowa City, for work. Some number of 
gen-X are moving back to raise families.  Fairfield feels progressive in its 
elements.  
 

 This article explains a lot about that vast cranky area of Iowa that elects a 
Rep Steve King: no employment base, no children, and living out retirement. 
Some good journalism..   

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-kiron-iowa-pop-229-the-meaning-of-a-life-a-death-and-another-cup-of-coffee/2017/04/16/71203c06-2078-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?amp;utm_term=.ab98891e06aa=hp_hp-top-table-main_kiron-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory_term=.b77eaccd200f
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-kiron-iowa-pop-229-the-meaning-of-a-life-a-death-and-another-cup-of-coffee/2017/04/16/71203c06-2078-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?amp;utm_term=.ab98891e06aa=hp_hp-top-table-main_kiron-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory_term=.b77eaccd200f

 

 





[FairfieldLife] Trop. astr: Macron vs. Le Pen!

2017-04-19 Thread he...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]


 Le Pen: stunning resemblance with some of Trump's astro-stuff?
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vbF6_b_k3k 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vbF6_b_k3k

 

 

 



Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating in the Dome

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
It is terrible the Trustees and Rajas and those who defend them have let it get 
so bad with the meditating numbers here. 
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yep it seems a frightened flock now.
 A best thing you hope for as a sheep shepherd is a leader-sheep in the flock 
who has a steady eye with enough bravery and inner wisdom to gather up and lead 
a flock with you. 
 

 You look for the sheep with courage to step up and lead and then give them 
enough calmness and encouragement to come forward.  That part takes being a 
good human being in character.  Those guys of the Patterson-Morris 
administrative state of TM it seems clear now did not have what it takes to 
shepherd people, they probably should never have administrated anything.
 

 177 in the Dome the other morning. 

 Rajawilliamsmith wrote:

 Sheep herders lead from behind.
 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Only 179 in the Dome the other morning. 
 
Communal Critical mass?
 

 It is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate 
membership for inclusion in the group meditations.  There are way too many 
“non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that 
exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations.  It is 
sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 It is time for a new policy of inclusion. The old adage is, “You can’t lead 
from behind”.  The ™ Rajas need to bravely get out front on this now. And,those 
Raja who can’t need to recuse themselves and get out of the way. 

 This part of culture change is going to take some extraordinary leadership by 
some brave Rajas to step in to position out in front of us all. ..Grant them 
strength.  
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 
 I appreciate your concern here but it would be an invasion of some people's 
privacy to go on about this here. The more important thing here in this subject 
thread is what cultural fiduciary position the TM Raja have with the TM 
movement. 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Please share with us as U may know what Rajas have left or become in active in 
our movement! Thanks in advance 4 this news
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
 To: FairfieldLife 
 Sent: Thu, Apr 6, 2017 2:20 pm
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Meditating in the Dome
 
 
 
 The TM Rajas? The TM Raja of America? They are the equivalent of corporate 
executive vice-presidents with some Trustees as directors over them. Except for 
Dr. Hagelin as Raja of America who is also one of a small group of the trustees 
at the top of everything TM. In the flow chart they can be like divisional exec 
VP-CEO’s of areas or lesser incorporations of the larger corporation. It is 
time for them Raja all to collectively rise up together and effect change in 
the Administrative State of the TM Movement’s group meditations.
 
 Flow chart, for instance:
 374777FW: How Our Community Works
 Corporate Communal TM, the flow chart.. 
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777?soc_src=mail_trk=mahttps://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777
 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/374777
 
 
 Some number of those who became Raja with Maharishi have abandoned their posts 
and are long gone now on to other things. Yet there are some who are dedicated 
holding steady to corporate missions. Jai Guru Dev 
 
 
 
 
 
 What is Raja of  America?
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote :
 
 There are two lines of thought here that work in opposition, the evident 
statistical fact of science for meditation and meditation in groups and then 
the ‘administrative state’ of the Domes that excludes practicing meditators of 
the community from the Domes. 
 
 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote :

 It is way past time to re-draft the national guidelines that regulate 
membership for inclusion in the group meditations.  There are way too many 
“non-compete” clauses that remain in the guidelines, still. Clauses that 
exclude capable meditators from the collective of the group meditations.  It is 
sinful what the Rajas have continued to abide in excluding people. 
 

 
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 
 wrote :

 
 Just simply reading the published science, it is compelling. 
 A common sense of the statistical fact of the science 

[FairfieldLife] What is Really Going On

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FW: 
 

 This is great! You might want to watch the 9 other parts that precede this but 
this is the summery. Enjoy!
 

 
 From Guru Dev to Maharishi, ..Balancing with sattwa the world… .. and this is 
the sattwa system, to cool down the heat,  Only sattwa is able to air condition 
the fire of the world.  
 

 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jQ4Y0ZCgYc 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jQ4Y0ZCgYc
 

 



[FairfieldLife] What is Really Gong On.

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]


 FW: 
 

 This is great! You might want to watch the 9 other parts that precede this but 
this is the summery. Enjoy!
 

 
 ..Balancing with sattwa the world… .. and this is the sattwa system, to cool 
down the heat,  Only sattwa is able to air condition the fire of the world.  
 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jQ4Y0ZCgYc 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jQ4Y0ZCgYc
 

 

  


[FairfieldLife] Re: Iowa

2017-04-19 Thread dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Is an article with good insight.  Good insight to a place and time. There is a 
lot of poignancy out there.  What was a mixed small farm economy is mostly gone 
over to larger landholdings and a class of some operators.  There just are not 
very many people farming living out in the landscape anymore with that mixed 
economy that drove small towns everywhere in Iowa and across the rural middle 
of the country.  
 

 Small mixed family farming just can’t hack the feedlot scale of animal 
husbandry. A result is the loss of the underlying need for the diverse small 
towns that supported the small farm.  Those left are riding out an aging 
infrastructure.  A lot of these towns as places with what was a range of 
hardware and food stores, schools and churches have no basis for existence, 
have no reason to be, and you can see the housing stock moldering away as the 
young and able have moved to larger towns, to larger places the Des Moines 
Register is calling the Micro urban areas and a few larger urban areas in Iowa. 
 
 

 Fairfield is one of the few micro urban areas of Iowa that has grown recently. 
 Fairfield has a few manufacturers, white collar employment and infrastructure 
that employs people.  As an employment base a portion of people commute daily 
to Fairfield, regionally and even from Iowa City, for work. Some number of 
gen-X are moving back to raise families.  Fairfield feels progressive in its 
elements.  
 

 This article explains a lot about that vast cranky area of Iowa that elects a 
Rep Steve King: no employment base, no children, and living out retirement. 
Some good journalism.   

 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-kiron-iowa-pop-229-the-meaning-of-a-life-a-death-and-another-cup-of-coffee/2017/04/16/71203c06-2078-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?amp;utm_term=.ab98891e06aa=hp_hp-top-table-main_kiron-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory_term=.b77eaccd200f
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-kiron-iowa-pop-229-the-meaning-of-a-life-a-death-and-another-cup-of-coffee/2017/04/16/71203c06-2078-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?amp;utm_term=.ab98891e06aa=hp_hp-top-table-main_kiron-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory_term=.b77eaccd200f