Walking into Laura Lind's Sebastopol home is like walking into a beehive of creativity, and she is the busy bee. Puppets, paintings, candles, crowns, plums, flowers and button jewelry charm visitors.

Ambient music remains an oft-misunderstood genre. Many assume it's elevator music with delusions of grandeur or something Brian Eno invented to irritate the bejesus out of his rock 'n' roll buddies.