Keeping community when common house is built last
From: Joani Blank (jeblankhooked.net)
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 01:54:07 -0500
I've not been in that situation, but have a piece of advice anyway. That
is, find a way to eat together at least once a week, at least 5-6
households at a time if you don't have space for everybody who wants to
share dinner on the chosen common dinner night. Do a potluck or an old
fashioned progressive dinner (anyone remember those?) if host households
don't want to cook for the others eat at their house that night. Go out to
a restaurant together  or have an on- or off-site picnic or barbecue. If
you want to get real organized about it (not a bad idea in my opinion, have
a few people with slightly larger houses offer to host, the dinners  and
then shuffle other households around so everyone gets to eat with everyone
else at least once in a while until the common house is built.

Joani Blank
Old Oakland Cohousing and Doyle St., Cohousing, SF Bay Area, CA

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