Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Celebration: Coho in the mainstream?

[MelaSilva (MelaSilva]

AMEN ! The amount of work it took to get Southside built has prevented me
from enthusiastically advocating it for most people. For too many of us it
was the main thing we did for 5 years. That means we cut back on our
participation in school, church, politics, etc for a very long time. Years
ago I belonged to a "food conspiracy" where we were able to buy good quality
food for very little money. The only problem was, we had to spend endless
hours making lists, picking things up, delivering, sorting, storing,
returning mistakes, etc. Our cheap food was horribly expensive in terms of
time and energy. I am now very willing to let Lucky or the Natural Food Coop
have the extra money and I will keep my time and energy available for other
things. Someday I too hope we can have hundreds of cohousing groups without
so much work by each individual.