Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: What’s so funny ‘bout peace love & understanding?

[Catya Belfer (catya]

Hey, can I put that compilation on cohousing.org?

     - cat

Catya Belfer   -  www.catya.org
Technical Director   -   www.cohousing.org
Cohousing in MA - www.mosaic-commons.org

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org> 
wrote:

>
> 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
>
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