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From: Barbara Saunders (saunderssybase.com) | |
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:23:01 -0500 |
Hmmm...I think that co-housing isn't likely to become very diverse until the financial model on which it rests expands. Personally, my attraction to community in general (well, one of them) is community as relieving the need for overwork in order to sustain the "middle-class" lifestyle. If the co-housing model presumes that the members will hold down the same "industrialist-type" jobs, it's not going to attract the "bohemian" pagans, artists/activists, minority groups, etc. Because if you're already living the "post-industrial" lifestyle, and want to expand that into intentional community living, getting a 9-to-5 job to finance that is counterproductive. Barbara Valerie here. I just want to say THANK YOU ZEV for your message. YES! HO! and YES! I can see a world where diversity is encouraged and celebrated. A black African co-housing unit, a pagan co-housing project, a green-pepper lovers co-housing project. I think it would be great to see people go all the way expressing their members uniqueness WHILE learning to appreciate and honor co-housing groups completely different from there own. I have the sense as we really accept and enjoy each others' differences and allow them to flourish there will not be so much conflict. While I wouldn't want to love in a Catholic co-housing project I might enjoy sitting in their meditation garden or enjoy helping them with a community project they want to facilitate. I've come from flinching when I hear the word God to actually having friendships with Jehova's Witneses (as long as they stop trying to convert me). We grow stronger in ourselves when we are surrounded with like-minded folks who understand us and can support us to be the person we want to be. For some it will be "base model" co-housing, for others it will mean more exclusivity or more criteria for admittance - that's life. I hope we move beyond this, personally as I would rather spend time discussing what fun or growthful realizations, experiences folks ARE having. What IS helping you to get closer to living the life of your dreams? Valerie Stuart, Eugene, OR
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