Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing Alternative -Reply

[CSpirito (CSpirito]

I think the name/image problem has to do with the need for an
_INTENTIONAL- grouping of people. This implies to me that
people/families are SELECTED by some admissions group.  This is
already distasteful to me...

"I wouldn't want to be a member of any group that would have me as a
member" - to quote/ paraphrase Woody Allen, I think.

Someone recently listed the common traits of "community" as
Communication, Cooperation and Caring...   If you REALLY care, then
one of your goals should be Inclusiveness, so that anyone can belong
who shares the other common values.  Without that, you have only a
very exclusive social club or, worse, a sort of live-in country club for
the affluent and well-connected. This is not my idea of "community"

from a reformed lurker...

Carl Spirito, in southern Maine  (cspirito [at] mailbox.une.edu)
mid-fifties, married 31 years, 3 grown kids
University Professor - Physiology
hobbiest sculptor and scale model builder (trains, etc.)
Not in any "coho" situation, but trying to build true community in my town
of 15K people.