Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: utilization of Common House

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

> You are right, my place is also underutilized a lot.  and the Psychological
> importance  of the presence of CH is immense.
> 
> It's not really underutilized, but certainly people hang out less than I had
> expected, and ours (retrofit) can seem pretty empty.

I think the most important things said about the commonhouse are:

1. Its importance is that it is there when needed.
2. Adults don't hang out much. Scheduled activities are more common.

College students and teenagers hang out. I don' t really want to hang out at
all and  I thought I would. I had visions of  this being just like graduate
school where we met every morning for coffee and read the paper together and
discussed world events and professional gossip. Anytime I wanted to see
people there would be a table of them in the commonhouse to play cards or
share disaster news with.

Hanging out was so. But I was also 21 and everything was  alive and real and
new and true and important. Hanging out now is just boring. I have so many
other things I enjoy doing.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org


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