Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: business vs personal is a misleading dichotomy -- Scott

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

Linda Scott, Cascadia COmmons COhousing, Portland, OR  LScottr2go [at] aol.com
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In a message dated 4/19/2002 9:17:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
ccharis [at] jeffco.k12.co.us writes:


> In that respect, I have to say I had to come to the place where the
> community "broke my heart" when it/they COULDN'T meet my personal needs.
> Now, I'm glad of that, because I had to figure out how to be responsible
> for my own feelings, my own needs, and now my heart is fine.
> ... like in some families, my personal needs may not be met by what seems
> to be "best"
> for the family.
>
> Cheryl
> Harmony Village, Golden CO
>

It's beautiful what you wrote - you wrote my story, too.  Marketing was hard
to do during that period of disillusion:  "It's not what I expected."  It
turned out to be a spur to growth for me, too.  I suppose some of us are not
there yet, and keep trying to make it meet our needs, some don't survive the
disappointment and leave, and some go on to let the experience be what it is
- and find new, surprising things in living it.
 Linda Scott, Cascadia COmmons COhousing, Portland, OR

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