Re: Did your community celebrate last night?
From: David Heimann (heimanntheworld.com)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:34:14 -0800 (PST)
Hello Everyone,

We at JP Cohousing watched and celebrated similarly to the way others have posted, with a special TV linkup in the common house (looks like more places than us do not make TV uniformly available in the common house!), snacks and beverages, and later champagne.

At 11:00 (EST) you could probably hear our screams of delight and high-fives around the whole neighborhood, except that most of the whole neighborhood was doing their own celebrating (I heard the cheers at one point when I ducked out of the common house!).

Wouldn't you know it though; the 5-year-old son of one of our residents fell asleep in the common house midway during the evening and slept solidly through all the noise around him!

As far as Craig's original post, I'm fine with it, including the "Did your community celebrate last night?" subject header. I take it that he was expressing his own and likely his community's feelings, and asking whether other communities were during the same. If a McCain supporter or more conservative community wishes to check in with a posting requesting "Was your community in mourning last week?", they are free to post this. I presume Craig was posting personally and not as a Cohousing/USA official.

Cheers and more cheers,
David Heimann
JP Cohousing


Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:00:49 -0800
From: "Craig Ragland" <craigragland [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Did your community celebrate last night?
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Great point and I wish I had been more inclusive in my title.

My experience is that most cohousers today are fairly liberal - some
downright radical. My personal belief this is large an early adopter
phenomena and that we have probably already broadened as our numbers
have grown and that we will continue to broaden in many different
dimensions as the concept becomes better known and more accessible.

Craig

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:
Hello all!
I've been reading all the posts on how communities celebrated the election
last night.  An historic moment.  I share in your joy.
I also have a question that's been on my mind for a few years ...
Is there room for conservatives in cohousing?  Or are we islands of
liberal/progressive thought?  (Not saying this is "bad" or "wrong." -- just
curious ...)

The reason I got involved in cohousing is that I immediately saw this social
structure as one road to peace in the world.  (If we can figure out how to
live together in small communities maybe we can tackle the Middle East.)  So
I'm always looking for mutuality, inclusivity and connection in cohousing.
I know there ARE some conservative folks in cohousing -- out there somewhere
-- but I wonder how welcome we make them feel when it looks as if there is
"A" kind of political leaning?
For instance ... the question posed in this thread wasn't:
What did your community do on election night?
But rather:
Did your community CELEBRATE last night?   (emphasis mine)
The implication of this question is that clearly cohousing and cohousers are
Obama supporters.   Which is highly likely TRUE ... I'm just wondering where
"inclusivity" and "diversity" are in this picture?
Personally, I've always understood cohousing to be non-ideological -- all
are welcome.  Maybe not?
This is NOT an indictment of all the celebrations that went on last night
(and may still be going on!)  There's LOTS to celebrate!  AND if cohousing
is to reach its full flowering then it must be a possibility for ALL people
-- not just liberal/progressive people.
Ok.  You can now start throwing bricks and tomatoes at me!
:-)

Best --
Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village
Washington, DC
Principal, The Cohousing Collaborative
McLean, VA
PH: 703 663 3911
FAX 202 291 8594

On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Craig Ragland wrote:

Only in cohousing... my experiences last night

- Over our common-house dinner, of about 30 folks, we listened to returns on
NPR

TEXT CLIPPED

Hooray for good neighbors - and this chance to celebrate!

Craig Ragland
Songaia member since 1992
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:17:28 -0700
From: Racheli Gai <racheli [at] sonoracohousing.com>
Subject: [C-L]_ Celebrating Obama's victory
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Great point and I wish I had been more inclusive in my title.

My experience is that most cohousers today are fairly liberal - some
downright radical. My personal belief this is large an early adopter
phenomena and that we have probably already broadened as our numbers
have grown and that we will continue to broaden in many different
dimensions as the concept becomes better known and more accessible.

Craig

Hi Ann and all,
I want to say that I, as a decidedly "lefty" kind of person, felt
relieved by
Obama's win (because I think is way less likely to cause nuclear
devastation).
I haven't celebrated, and with the celebratory outbursts of most people
around me
I've been feeling rather isolated.
I'm saying this to point out that not only people on the "right",
(conservatives), feel
sometimes isolated in cohousing.  And that the idea that we all
"celebrated" leaves out
people on both sides of the spectrum.

Racheli, Sonora Cohousing, Tucson.






On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net>
wrote:
Hello all!
I've been reading all the posts on how communities celebrated the
election
last night.  An historic moment.  I share in your joy.
I also have a question that's been on my mind for a few years ...
Is there room for conservatives in cohousing?  Or are we islands of
liberal/progressive thought?  (Not saying this is "bad" or "wrong." --
just
curious ...)

The reason I got involved in cohousing is that I immediately saw this
social
structure as one road to peace in the world.  (If we can figure out
how to
live together in small communities maybe we can tackle the Middle
East.)  So
I'm always looking for mutuality, inclusivity and connection in
cohousing.
I know there ARE some conservative folks in cohousing -- out there
somewhere
-- but I wonder how welcome we make them feel when it looks as if
there is
"A" kind of political leaning?
For instance ... the question posed in this thread wasn't:
What did your community do on election night?
But rather:
Did your community CELEBRATE last night?   (emphasis mine)
The implication of this question is that clearly cohousing and
cohousers are
Obama supporters.   Which is highly likely TRUE ... I'm just wondering
where
"inclusivity" and "diversity" are in this picture?
Personally, I've always understood cohousing to be non-ideological --
all
are welcome.  Maybe not?
This is NOT an indictment of all the celebrations that went on last
night
(and may still be going on!)  There's LOTS to celebrate!  AND if
cohousing
is to reach its full flowering then it must be a possibility for ALL
people
-- not just liberal/progressive people.
Ok.  You can now start throwing bricks and tomatoes at me!
:-)

Best --
Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village
Washington, DC
Principal, The Cohousing Collaborative
McLean, VA
PH: 703 663 3911
FAX 202 291 8594



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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:37:14 -0800
From: Lyle Scheer <wonko [at] monkeyhouse.org>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Celebrating Obama's victory
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
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The running joke here at Bear Grass Village in Ashland, Oregon, when we
were still trying to sell our last unit, was that we were holding out
for a single elderly gay black conservative/republican male.  The joke
came up at a member's birthday party, where we held a skit of two
members chatting 30 years from our founding, and that the unit was still
open because the member who we were roasting was blocking consensus on
anyone that didn't match the above profile.

... only another cohouser would appreciate the humor.

- - Lyle

Racheli Gai wrote:

Great point and I wish I had been more inclusive in my title.

My experience is that most cohousers today are fairly liberal - some
downright radical. My personal belief this is large an early adopter
phenomena and that we have probably already broadened as our numbers
have grown and that we will continue to broaden in many different
dimensions as the concept becomes better known and more accessible.

Craig

Hi Ann and all,
I want to say that I, as a decidedly "lefty" kind of person, felt
relieved by
Obama's win (because I think is way less likely to cause nuclear
devastation).
I haven't celebrated, and with the celebratory outbursts of most people
around me
I've been feeling rather isolated.
I'm saying this to point out that not only people on the "right",
(conservatives), feel
sometimes isolated in cohousing.  And that the idea that we all
"celebrated" leaves out
people on both sides of the spectrum.

Racheli, Sonora Cohousing, Tucson.






On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net>
wrote:
Hello all!
I've been reading all the posts on how communities celebrated the
election
last night.  An historic moment.  I share in your joy.
I also have a question that's been on my mind for a few years ...
Is there room for conservatives in cohousing?  Or are we islands of
liberal/progressive thought?  (Not saying this is "bad" or "wrong." --
just
curious ...)

The reason I got involved in cohousing is that I immediately saw this
social
structure as one road to peace in the world.  (If we can figure out
how to
live together in small communities maybe we can tackle the Middle
East.)  So
I'm always looking for mutuality, inclusivity and connection in
cohousing.
I know there ARE some conservative folks in cohousing -- out there
somewhere
-- but I wonder how welcome we make them feel when it looks as if
there is
"A" kind of political leaning?
For instance ... the question posed in this thread wasn't:
What did your community do on election night?
But rather:
Did your community CELEBRATE last night?   (emphasis mine)
The implication of this question is that clearly cohousing and
cohousers are
Obama supporters.   Which is highly likely TRUE ... I'm just wondering
where
"inclusivity" and "diversity" are in this picture?
Personally, I've always understood cohousing to be non-ideological --
all
are welcome.  Maybe not?
This is NOT an indictment of all the celebrations that went on last
night
(and may still be going on!)  There's LOTS to celebrate!  AND if
cohousing
is to reach its full flowering then it must be a possibility for ALL
people
-- not just liberal/progressive people.
Ok.  You can now start throwing bricks and tomatoes at me!
:-)

Best --
Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village
Washington, DC
Principal, The Cohousing Collaborative
McLean, VA
PH: 703 663 3911
FAX 202 291 8594

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