Counting blessings | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Dahako (Dahakoaol.com) | |
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 04:54:05 -0800 (PST) |
Hi - Fred's post made me think about how my activity within my cohousing community waxes and wanes, and on from there into how thoroughly my cohousing community(ies) mixes into my life. There are meals, of course. My job involves work on long term disaster recovery projects, so it has been a wonderful blessing the year (and then some) to have a couple of nights a week where I know my kids will get fed and get some adult attention even if I have to work late. Plus, I recently realized that my high school aged kid has extended the cohousing meal thing into her school, where she and her friends now have a Thursday lunch potluck. There are moments that could be scary for the kids and us, and really aren't because of our neighbors. Like my latch key son forgetting his keys one day. Or another day when he never turned up after school and one neighbor went out searching for him with my daughter, and it turned out that another had picked him up already and was returning him home. There are starting to be moments in meetings where everything balances as it should and people feel safe enough to say and hear the truth. Just moments, but what great promise of things to come! There are the Village Knit-Wits whose new knitting circle is all the rage. In the last business meeting, there was a whole row of knitters placidly listening and waiting their turn to speak. Which was a good thing in that meeting. . . There is the blessing of almost always having someone to talk to or something, small or great, to do, just by stepping outside the door. And all the messages on the answering machine and knocks on the door asking to borrow this, return that, get a favor, give a favor, or just chew some issue over. There is the blessing of possibilities, of never getting to everything or getting everything just right, but always getting enough joy. Jessie Handforth Kome Eastern Village Cohousing Silver Spring, Maryland "Where the winter holidays are upon us. There's a Christmas tree in the common house, lights and menorahs in many windows and the courtyard. Cheerful small children everywhere."
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