Re: Re: Who lives in cohousing/ division of labor | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Judy Baxter (BAXTERepi.umn.edu) | |
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:59:48 -0700 (MST) |
I agree with both Sharon and Lynn. People's lives change - mine has changed - I've been on the list since it started, and now I read very sporadically , why? 1. I have other time priorities at the moment. This list is often very high traffic. 2. I find that few of our community RARELY want to think about some of the ideas I find - and I rarely have the energy to push them. And, occasionally, I do find an audience for ideas from here. I suspect that many besides me are more and more flooded with email, and forced to do triage. I too need to remember that just because I've been spending time on X doesn't mean lots of others aren't spending time on Y, which I never deal with. Judy Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing, Twin Cities (near Minneapolis), MN --------Original message------ SHARON wrote: >The point is that the vast majority of people want to LIVE in cohousing -- >they don=BCt want to theorize about it or discuss the details. They want = to >get on their lives. ...they have lives that are >not focused on any of the issues that we discuss here in detail. > LYNN wrote: I see this as a division of labor, or style. My personal contribution = to my community includes being probably the only one of us who reads = the list, and the only one who posts to it. I'm a resource, sometimes = going on line with specific questions the group is wrestling with, = and being able to report back that "in three other communities, they = do it that way and it seems to work" or "listserver replies made me = realize that we forgot to consider x". The detailed discussions here are carried to wider circles via those = of us who collect and disseminate ideas. We may be fewer in number, = but (read The Tipping Point) our influence is sometimes significant. I do get frustrated sometimes when I'm faced with the fact that I'm = one of the few among 24 families who sees us as having = responsibilities to forming groups or researchers or a "movement". I = know that I'm the only one willing to pay a bunch of my own money to = be able to give us presence at conferences and gatherings. Or take a = day of my time to be hospitable to people touring projects. But before I start feeling too huffy about it, I realize how many = things in my community I do NOTHING about! Not deciding where we = invest our capital, not whether the irrigation system needs mending, = nor many other areas that are handled by others. _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
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Re: Who lives in cohousing/ division of labor Lynn Nadeau, March 9 2004
- Re: Re: Who lives in cohousing/ division of labor WOLF1GDSFM, March 10 2004
- Re: Re: Who lives in cohousing/ division of labor Judy Baxter, March 15 2004
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