Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: RE: yadda yadda

[Molly Williams (mmw]

Kay,

I agree with you. Now I'm getting quite a bit of thoughtful and
interesting mail sent to me only, not to the list, about the topics
raised in recent weeks about children and community. Each person
says that they feel they can't reply to the list because it's been
discouraged by some list members. While I appreciate the mail, I
think these issues would be more profitably discussed in a forum of
people of diverse views, not just one on one. 

~ Molly Wms. (Maine)

Kay Argyle wrote:
> 
> Speaking for myself, I'd much rather get twenty-seven messages which I
> delete after glancing at the first sentence, then a single message trying to
> shut down the discussion when obviously a lot of people still have thoughts
> on the matter.
> 
> Sometimes discussions do stray far afield from the nuts and bolts of
> building cohousing.  Once the contractors pack up their trailers and pull
> out, though, it's the human element you're left with -- and you find
> yourself thinking that things were so much easier when it was just
> construction loans and roof trusses you were struggling with.
> 
> (Not that they were, of course -- but while you were focussed on paint
> colors, you could pretend the social engineering would work out magically
> after move-in.  Human nature being what it is, the trail is always steepest
> on the slope you're climbing right now.)
> 
> The recent high-volume discussion combined the elements of children and
> community economics (who provides resources, who benefits from them) -- both
> hot buttons!  And both tie into a lot of other subjects.  Sure, I winced
> when I saw the "You have 42 unread messages" notice.  But a benefit of email
> over face-to-face is that expression is limited by the individual's time
> instead of by the group time -- everybody can "talk" at once; yet reception
> can be selective -- if somebody rambles or doesn't seem to have any point,
> you can skim or delete.
> 
> Kay
> 
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