Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Long term survival issues

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 7/09/2003 9:51 AM, "Fred H Olson" <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 annehyman1 [at] aol.com wrote (off list):
> 
>> I wonder whether the greatest proportion of queries in all this time
>> [ of cohousing-L's existence] have been related to sticks and stones
>> issues and very few on what's essential in order for a community to
>> survive.
> 
> Fred Replied:
> 
> To date (cohousing-L's first 10 years), getting started and living in
> cohousing issues have probably been the vast majority of those discussed.
> I'm sure survival issues would be of interest to many.

>From living in cohousing almost 3 years and having spent 3 years before that
on trying to build and building cohousing, I would venture a guess that
unless the sticks and stones issues are mastered, the people relationships
will be destroyed. But on the other hand, unless you have the people
relationships, you won't keep struggling with the sticks and stones.

I think it is a defining characteristic of cohousing that the sticks and
stones issues are integral parts of the social issues. There are days when
only the sticks and stones are keeping you happy and others when only the
social relationships are keeping you happy. Usually we are really discussing
both of them although the words we use may favor one or the other.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org



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