Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Managing the Common House

[Matt Lawrence (matt]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, O3C11N6G wrote:

> I fail to see what people are unhappy about with my email.
>
> I described a management picture and wanted comparative perspectives from
> other communities.
> If you interpret that as complaining, you have injected your own reaction to
> simple words and you miss my point.
> Psychanalyzing my messages will not help me nor anyone else on this
> listserv.

Norm, I read you email as a series of observations.  I did think there was 
a tone in some of your comments that maybe what you were seeing wasn't 
typical and you wanted to know one way or the other.

> I seek information.  Emotionalism is not my cup of tea and never has been.
> Obviously there are several people on this listserv who cannot tell the
> difference between logical discussion and groveling for support.

Rules are important to you.  Breaking the rules is a bad thing for you.  I 
suspect that rewriting the rules by following the procedure specified by 
the rules so thay they were no longer being broken would make you happier.

> Information I can use to evaluate my communities common house practices is
> what I am seeking.  I see nothing objectionable about that.

Knowlege is Power.  There are people who accumulate it to increse their 
overall power.  I have also noticed a tendency in cohousing (and other 
groups) to limit the flow of information.  I feel this is bad.  If people 
are not willing to put their words down, then doing business with them can 
be tricky.  With all of the tool available online, building living 
documents that easily allow changes in direction is much, much easier.

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.