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From: Joani Blank (joaniswansway.com) | |
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:57:21 -0600 (MDT) |
Friends, Since our last North American conference in Amherst last fall, seven of you have taken advantage of an opportunity to serve the cohousing "movement" and, by all reports have had fun doing it. What they have done, and what you may now volunteer for is collecting messages from the Network's voicemail twice a week for one month, and responding to the those phone messages Before I describe this opportunity further, let me quote from a note from Ann Griffin a resident of Nyland CoHousing in Colorado who "staffed" the phones in May and who has volunteered to do it again in August. "I so enjoy the closeness of my neighbors in coho, the babies slung over dad's or mom's chest walking in twos or threes down the pedway, watching f rollicking cats and petting them whenever I wish without owning one, live music, slide shows, sharing good food and now an art class I'll attend here with 6 kids! Life here fills in many rich spaces for me. It's the ability to be close and to have distance on beautiful land that nourishes me... And so to get to talk with people from Washington, California, Florida, Mississippi, New York, Michigan and Georgia networking to help them get to a kind of living that turns them on is joyful to me. Life is too short to miss ANY "turn ons", especially when it is about connecting to one another and to community. The most often asked question was from Californians who want to know where the closest coho is to them. A man in Port Townsend, WA, wants to find people to start coho there. A woman is interested in converting her apartment building into coho, and a group of women who bought land together now realize they need support in group processing for a possible coho...." So the month of August is covered, but that the volunteer calendar is bare! I hope some of you out there will be chomping at the bit to help out in this way. Here are some of the parameters: Time: This' ll take you as few as 2 or as many as 4 hours spread out over the month, depending on how much you like to chat about cohousing. Pay: None, but the cost of your long distance phone calls will be fully reimbursed by The Cohousing Network. Support: You will receive a detailed instruction sheet, and may call me anytime for backup or help. I will also talk with you by phone before you begin your month to answer any questions you may have. Please respond to me individually " (joani [at] swansway.com) and NOT TO THE LIST (Or by phone at 510-834-7399). So DO NOT hit that REPLY button. In your response, please tell me why you think you'd be a good person for this volunteer position, and let me know which month(s) (starting in September) you would be available for. It's fine to state a preference, but the more flexibility you have the better, and the easier it will be for me to juggle things around to assure adequate phone coverage. Second only to the website, this Network voicemail is a very important interface between cohousing and the rest of the world, so this request is worthy of your most serious consideration. Thank you. Joani Blank Old Oakland Cohousing joani [at] swansway.com
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