Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Political News

[Kathryn McCamant (kmccamant]

Thank you Ann, and Alice. 

WOW…… apparently there is a lot of the world that sees it differently.  But I 
agree, the only thing to do is to keeping doing what we are doing, better and 
broader.  We must make sure our communities are not isolated islands, but 
rather beacons of hope of how people can work together respectfully, spreading 
love and hope rather than anger and fear. And most importantly, we must not let 
this discourage our efforts to create a more just and respectful world for all. 
The one thing we can count on now, is there will be no financial assistance 
from the federal government for the forseeable future to create more affordable 
housing, protect our environment, or slow climate change. It is up to us to 
keep moving those efforts forward as best we can. 

Katie 
-- 
Kathryn McCamant, President
CoHousing Solutions

241B Commercial Street 

Nevada City, CA 95959

T.530.478.1970  C.916.798.4755

www.cohousing-solutions.com
 




On 11/9/16, 6:11 AM, "Cohousing-L on behalf of Ann Zabaldo" 
<cohousing-l-bounces+kmccamant=cohousing-solutions.com [at] cohousing.org on 
behalf of zabaldo [at] earthlink.net> wrote:

Dear Alice —

Leave it to you to find a way to direct our thoughts and energies this morning! 
 This is what a leader does.  Thank you,  Alice.

I applaud your words and I’m delighted to report I’m now a member of the  Sixty 
and Me community.  

Last night at 1:45 a.m. my neighbor Carrie and I packed up the projector and 
the computer and headed home.  We were the last two waiting out the results.

You might consider the emotions I might be feeling at that juncture in the 
election results would be sadness, anger, confusion, bemusement, bewilderment, 
anxiety, depression, etc.   Instead, I felt profoundly lonely.  I haven’t 
sussed out all that that might mean yet.  May take a while.

But when I woke up this morning at 5:30 a.m. I was profoundly grateful.  I live 
in cohousing.  Now, it’s not just that I have all my neighbors so I won’t be 
lonely.  It’s something bigger than that.  A lot bigger.

Cohousing allows me to tackle the issues I want to tackle.  I’m not waiting 
around for “The Government” to deal with issues around aging.  Or the 
challenges single parents face (and two parent households, too!).  Or, 
environmental and energy challenges.  Or, latch key kids.  Or any of many 
dozens of other social challenges facing society today.  I have a blueprint for 
how to tackle these issues:  Cohousing Communities.  I don’t have to wait 
around for a government program. I can just keep building more communities.

So on this morning after the night before, I am moved to say how grateful I am 
to Katie McCamant and Chuck Durrett for giving me this blueprint.  From the day 
I read the first paragraph in the first edition of “Cohousing” I have never 
wavered in my belief and commitment that community has the power to change the 
world — one cohousing community at a time. That’s a gift, Katie and Chuck.  
Thank you.

As I heard one Wellesley graduate say on NPR early this morning:  we wake up, 
we pull on our pants suit and we start again.  (Editorial note:  only I don’t 
have to “start again.”  I just have to wake up, pull on my pants suit and keep 
doing what I’m doing.)

Thank you to everyone on this list.  We are a community also. Fred, our list 
serve manager, makes this community possible.   

Let’s keep building cohousing!

Now, what color pants suit will I wear today …?

Best --

Ann Zabaldo
Takoma Village Cohousing
Washington, DC
Principal, Cohousing Collaborative, LLC
Falls Church, VA
202.546.4654

A friend recently told me I was delusional.  I nearly fell off my unicorn.


> On Nov 9, 2016, at 7:41 AM, Alice Alexander <alicecohous [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Many of us are in shock with the national political news; other of us may
> feel pleasantly surprised.
> 
> It was helpful to me to listen to Margaret Manning morning show out of
> Geneva with "Sixty and Me," a global network of women whose organization
> would like to support cohousing, with her positive message of working
> together.
> http://sixtyandme.com/america-elects-donald-trump-and-begins-the-healing-process/
> 
> I hope everyone takes care in the next several days as we work through what
> this all means.
> 
> I am pleased that we will be offering a "Cohouser in Politics" facilitated
> discussion with Eris Weaver at the 2017 National Cohousing Conference.
> Please join us.
> 
> -- 
> Alice Alexander
> Executive Director
> http://www.cohousing.org
> [image: The Cohousing Association]
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