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From: Dan Suchman (71756.2661compuserve.com) | |
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 16:21:48 -0500 |
I've received several email messages in support of my October 11 post to cohousing-l titled "'Base Model' Cohousing - Hold the Options, Please". But I have not received any dissent or opposing points of view. I suspect there is plenty of it out there. Let's hear it! Through open and rigorous discussion of these issues we might actually learn something from one another. In the mean time, I have another plug for "Base Model" Cohousing, unencumbered by extraneous ideologies. Katie McCamant and Chuck Durrett, who coined the term "cohousing" and are arguably the parents of American cohousing, are quoted on the back of each issue of the Cohousing Journal as saying that American cohousing is "based on democratic principles, that espouse no ideology other than the desire for a more practical and social home environment." Notice that this definition has nothing to do with the "Owner/Builder/Developer" Option, the "Green/Environmental" Option, the "Consensus/Process/Feelings-Oriented" Option, the "Spiritual" Option, or any of the other required, non-mainstream value systems that have been heaped upon American cohousing, and which make it seem strange, inaccessible and unappealing to the bulk of our society. I wish to reiterate that all of the foregoing options are admirable and potentially valuable contributions to our society. But lets not try to learn to juggle and roller-skate at the same time. First, let's make "simple" cohousing more prevalent and part of the American mainstream. We can always add the refinements later. But I fear that trying to do too many things at once makes it difficult to do any of them well (if at all). Dan Suchman Winslow Cohousing Bainbridge Island, WA
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"Base Model" Cohousing Dan Suchman, October 12 1995
- Re: "Base Model" cohousing ELIZABETH BASCH, October 13 1995
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