RE: cohousing and disabilities | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Mac Thomson (ganeshrmi.net) | |
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:19:10 -0600 |
Greetings from snowy SW Colorado, Here I am at my desk catching up on recent coho-L postings instead of heading out with my snowboard to catch some of that fresh Pow. But if I went boardin' I wouldn't be able to make it back in time for our cohousing meeting this evening, so . . . . A topic has been batted around of late on coho-L that is also of current interest to our group, San Juan Cohousing - Durango, CO. That is the issue of people contributing various amounts of work during the creation of the project. I will also chime in that I love the approach of Liberty Village, "People put into cohousing what they are willing, able, and inspired to give. We give without expectations for the level of effort of others. The desire to help is nutured in an environment of acceptance of whatever people are willing to contribute." I think that we follow that approach fairly well with our 9 current member households (out of 24 planned), but we've just run into a situation in which we have a difference of opinion and maybe some of you have experienced this and can lend us your wisdom. There are some people that may be interested in joining, but they say that their lives are too crazy now to participate in the creation of the community. Basically, "Call us when it's ready and we'll move on in." Some of us feel that this may be OK assuming that they'll be solid contributing neighbors once we're living in the community. After all, we need members and their money and what we're eventually looking for is good neighbors and not good developers. Others feel that this is not at all acceptable and that we shouldn't let these people sign up to be members. If you want to share in the harvest, you need to share in the field work. This issue becomes further complicated by the fact that we have people that live hundreds of miles away that want to join. They obviously can only play a limited role in creating this neighborhood. How have other groups dealt with people that want to live in the community, but DON'T WANT TO do the work to create it? What about people that CAN'T do the work because of distance, disability, etc? -- Mac Thomson San Juan Cohousing ganesh [at] rmi.net Durango, Colorado Web Site: http://www.rmi.net/~ganesh "In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." - Henry David Thoreau
- Re: cohousing and disabilities, (continued)
- Re: cohousing and disabilities Joe Nolan, December 31 1997
- Re: cohousing and disabilities Merlin Porter-Borden, December 31 1997
- RE: cohousing and disabilities Rob Sandelin, January 1 1998
- Re: cohousing and disabilities Jan Gordon, January 2 1998
- RE: cohousing and disabilities Mac Thomson, January 5 1998
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