Re: =?iso8859-7?q?What=A2s_so_funny_=A1bout_peace_love_=26_und?==?iso8859-7?q?erstanding=3F?= | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Fred H Olson (fholsoncohousing.org) | |
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 04:59:05 -0800 (PST) |
I take Igor's post to suggest that there have been few recent Cohousing-L posts about the joys of living in cohousing. There is a compilation of such posts at "Stories about life in cohousing" (based on cohousing-L messages) at http://www.austinprogressivecalendar.com/cactus/coho-stories.htm (For future reference, there is a link to it on the cohousing-L "Reference page" to which there is a link on the Info page ( subscribe page ) which in turn is accessible from a link at the bottom of any message or link at top of archive pages.) But indeed these stories are from 1995-2002. But my guess is that stories like those continue to happen but we dont post about them much but rather assume that most of us are experiencing or hearing about them where we live. I'd further guess that if we posted about all of them our inboxes would be even more full. But having some such stories would be good to reassure those that are new here that all the "mechanics" are worth it. So I invite folks to post some joys of living in cohousing stories. (Note the possible confusion with the name of the startup cohousing discussion web site and try to avoid that confusion.) To start things off I will tell a very brief amusing story from yesterday. I dont live in cohousing but in a neighborhood where we strive for similar relationships. Yesterday I was walking home from one neighbor's house where she had locked herself out to let her in with my key to her house. When I got near my house I saw someone getting out of a car and when I got close I recognised my neighbor Connie (we are bundled up these days when out doors - it was probably around 10 degrees F at the time.) The amusing thing was the unspoken tension Connie and I felt between chatting about recent events etc and getting inside our houses out of the cold. Multiple times we started to part only to return and talk a bit more. BTW both the locked out neighbor and Connie are African American and I'm White. One of the advantages of our neighborhood compared to most cohousing is our racial and economic diversity. But we don't have a common house to be in out of the cold to visit... Fred -- I support Bernie Sanders for President Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Email: fholson at cohousing.org 612-588-9532 My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org
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Re: =?iso8859-7?q?What=A2s_so_funny_=A1bout_peace_love_=26_und?==?iso8859-7?q?erstanding=3F?= Fred H Olson, February 14 2016
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