Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Maintaining the conversation

[Joanie Connors (jvcphd]

Excellent point! That is how it often happens!

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Ruth Hirsch <heidinys [at] earthlink.net> 
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope this comes across as ok, and gets the conversation back on track-- and 
> off the distraction.  This is the second time in recent memory that this same 
> dynamic has taken place here.  There was a recent discussion re: CommonHouse 
> use,  WT threw in comments of interest to him, and off went the discussion 
> chasing WT's ball.  I suppose is fine for W to write to the List--- but we do 
> not then have to spend a bunch of energy on responses to what I'd call a 
> distraction.  I really would like to see this discussion back on track.
>
> These have been two big and important topics:
> CH use, and
> pets/dogs.  Please do write how your communities are doing on these, or even 
> on the current one: dogs-- actually, we have neighbors with concerns about 
> cats doing in song birds, so if you have any cat policy, pleas do tell.
> Thank you, Ann, Leland and Katie for speaking up.  Please can we help 
> ourselves maintain our conversation, and acknowledge Wayne: --WT, please do 
> not distract-- which --my concern-- leads to another round of distracting 
> conversations-- re: WT's concerns, or do not acknowledge, but not get 
> distracted by what seems to be what may be called a red herring.
> Sorry if this is redundant/unfriendly  but this is a very valuable forum, and 
> seeing is shift has been problematic.
>
> Ruth
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:21:23 -0400
> From: Ann Zabaldo <zabaldo [at] earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ dogs in community
>
> Wayne and all --
>
> How would knowing the answers to your questions be helpful in dealing w/ this 
> issue?  I'm not picking at this -- I'm trying to understand what inferences 
> you could draw from knowing if 5% or 50% of the owners/residents are dog 
> owners.
>
> If only one resident has a dog and that dog is a problem then the community 
> has a problem.  If 100% of the residents have dogs and none of them are a 
> problem and the community at large has no problem w/ the dogs then ... 
> there's no problem.
>
> I don't know what difference it would make in a cohousing community if one or 
> more people on the board have or do not have dogs.  Since most governing 
> boards in cohousing work at the behest of the membership the membership is 
> the body that sets "the rules" ... O!  Excuse moi!  I meant "guidelines."  :-)
>
> I'm probably missing something glaringly obvious so do fill me in.
>
> :-)
>
> Woof!
>
> Best --
>
> Ann Zabaldo
> Takoma Village Cohousing
> Washington, DC
> Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
> Falls Church VA
> 703 663 3911
>
> On Jun 26, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Wayne Tyson wrote:
>
>
> CoHo:
>
> What is the proportion of dog owners to non-owners among the respondents to
> this thread and its sub-threads?
>
> What is the proportion of dog owners to non-owners on this list at large?
>
> What is the proportion of dog owners to non-owners on the governing boards?
>
> Thank you for your responses,
>
> WT
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>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:26:32 -0600
> From: Leland Baker <lhbaker [at] ecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ dogs in community
>
>
> Is it just me who expects someone asking for information requiring a
> fair amount of work for many people to state why the information is
> needed and what will be done with it?  This is a rhetorical question.
> Please don't respond.
>
> Leland
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:21:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ dogs in community
>
> Wayne,
>
> This is another message where you come across to me as a conspiracy theorist
> looking to uncover the hidden authoritarian nature of cohousing. Why else 
> would
> you ask about dog ownership on "governing boards" vs. list members at large? 
> It
> sounds to me as if you hope to reveal that dog owners take on positions of
> "power" to avoid being subject to pet policies, or to craft pet policies in a
> way that favors them. Why else would you seek that information?
>
>
> Katie Henry
>
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