Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Finding your path in community

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

on 7/15/2002 9:27 PM, Rob Sandelin at floriferous [at] msn.com wrote:

> Over time, the entire community had cycled through one of her dinner
> parties (no, she did not cook all the meals) and several other people began
> to want community meal to be more like her dinner environment, and so
> several changes were made and she pretty much stopped doing the dinner
> parties, because she now gets what she needs at community dinner. (small
> groups with intimate conversations - they spread some of the tables WAY far
> apart for example)

Thanks for the example. I'm one of the people who wants everyone to have or
do something.

This is interesting example since a current mild-to-hot topic is the
arrangement of tables in the dining room. Some want them in two long tables,
conference room or school cafeteria style; others want them arranged
artistically so it doesn't look that way and has some smaller tables where
you can actually have a conversation.

The long table people find them more community supportive because everyone
is sitting together. You just sit down in the next seat.

The 'artistic' people want more choices and more connected conversations if
not more intimate conversations. They don't want to take the next seat and
be one in a row of people calling to each other up and down the table.

We are trying a compromise but this approach to the issue is interesting.

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





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