 Taos Mountain That's why Taos isn't all filled up with the same rubber stamp, franchise brand malls and a marketing concept sort of food chains that seem to be all over everywhere else. There just weren't enough people.
For locals, besides all the social stuff about hanging out in Taos, just talking with friends over coffee or drinks or some food out in town or in a house, a cool part about Taos is the remoteness from people that can be achieved here. It's really very excellent.
Considering sacred Taos Mountain, mountain valleys, canyons and the gorge, it is a real place to get away from mostly everyone for rather long periods of time. That's assuming that you stay in Taos for a stretch.
 El Monte Sagrado Taos has always been kind of a deeply spiritual place. Mostly everyone here is into some sort of rather deeply believed religious practice. Just about every faith is represented here in some large or small way. Along with the sacred practices of Taos Indian Pueblo, and the masses and festivals of a very sizeable Catholic community, you will find so many people who are practicing in the Hindi, Sufi, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Yogic and meditation traditions. Add in worship of the Mother as well as Shamanism, Wiccan and Mysticism and keep on going. Even for those that just believe in the moment or the Earth, soil, globe, cosmos, one can sit with any and all of your own beliefs here in Taos.
I think another part of what's so nice about Taos is how quiet it can be. I think that helps hundreds of very focused fine artists do their thing, here. I really feel like that's maybe a big part of what moved Georgia O'Keeffe to be out here across the way. Like 'sound quiet' but also inner-vibration quiet in a way that is very unique for creativity.
 Rio Grande River Want another part of what's so nice about Taos? It's a great place to do global computer work. Just plug in and do it. Taos has been very well wired right from the beginning and there are a surprising number of people in Taos doing work on the web in all sorts of fields such as new media, social programs, art, sales, large institutional projects.
Taos is one of those places where you can become engrossed in a project on the computer for days (weeks or months), then walk out into the world and feel the sun on your face and feel the clean air in the breeze and listen to the birds and in some areas you can walk and walk. That's a way good balance between being in a very real sort of world and being inside the computer which is actually not real at all.
Besides being near some unique people, it's really nice when The Earth is your neighbor, because The Earth's the sort of neighbor that doesn't mind you peeing in the field. |
