Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Re/Blue/Black/White/it's all grey...

[Mary Ellen Wessels (mew]

Saoirse said:

> I'm not looking to stir the pot so much as to dip my toe in the water
> and see if others have been wondering the same thing.

While I understand the intense need to "circle our 
progressive/liberal wagons and fight" as it were, I too feel a strong 
need to keep working for change but reach out to healing and more 
understanding. 

Tell you good friend that he should come to your cohousing 
community as a "stealth" republican. (smile) that is, he can come 
and talk to people and when everyone sees all the good qualities 
you respect in him he can surprise them by saying "yep, but I 
totally disagree with you politically."   I would hope there was room 
for political diversity within cohousing as well as 
age/racial/gender/sexual orientation...

So, no, you aren't alone even though as I said, I understand the 
urge to pull into "us v. them" mode.

Namaste/Blessings,
Mary Ellen (aka "mew")
MaryEllen Wessels / Hopeful Romantics
mew AT  mewsic DOT com 
http://www.mewsic.com
(802) 985-3165