Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Standing exclusive-group dinners vs standing community-group dinners--do the former inhibit the latter?

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 9 Feb 2012, at 7:26 AM, Howard C. Katz wrote:

> * EXCLUSIVE-GROUP DINNERS are cooked by and serve only the members of
> the group and their guests. Nonmembers can attend if they bring their
> own dinner, but they are not served by the group. Group membership is
> controlled by the group.

This would never happen in our community. People just wouldn't conceive of it. 
It would feel to weird.

Just because I said "never" someone will probably suggest it tomorrow, but the 
idea would quickly die. The only time a group would say you can join us but you 
have to bring your own food would be if they decided to join when the food was 
already purchased and there wouldn't be enough. But the larger issue is 
"exclusive". We don't have exclusive activities in the CH unless someone is 
hosting a retreat workshop for their office or something like that.

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