"Elders in transition".. Also some older TM elders who had moved away recently “to be with children” elsewhere out in the world have moved back to the community here in Fairfield. The Domes and the larger meditating spiritual community that is Fairfield, Iowa are hard to just replace elsewhere out in the world. Certainly the context of the larger spiritual community that is the meditating community is manifest and real here in meditating Fairfield after 40 years of making community here. Is hard to replace that just anywhere.. -Buck in the Dome
Ebb and flow of elders in transition.. I can think of five people in recent weeks, older now, old time long time Fairfield meditators who just recently moved away from Fairfield to "live closer" to their kids and grandchildren somewhere else. A sad departure of old friends and campaigners. This is happening demographically everywhere but it is especially painful to witness when they are your friends and our old meditators going off to a dependent life somewhere else. “The county isn't simply a stereotype of Florida, where in just 15 years, one in four residents will be 65 or older. It's a peek into the not-too-distant future of the nation, where the number will be one in five....” -Buck Resolutely in the Dome
