Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Holiday Celebrations

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

We decided lo these many years ago to take a laissez-faire attitude towards
holiday decorations and celebrations in general. Anyone who wants to
decorate and/or celebrate is allowed to do so. The usual rules apply for
using the common house.

What this means in practice is that we usually end up celebrating
Christmas-a member organizes a posada and party every year-and the solstice,
and one member usually cooks a nice latke meal during Hanukkah. We have done
Kwanzaa, too, but there aren't as many people to sustain that.

Our kids love all the festivities, and I think it's a great example that we
set.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com
> From: Michael Arnott <mikearnott [at] juno.com>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:09:47 -0500
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Cc: BetsyDanteg [at] aol.com
> Subject: [C-L]_Holiday Celebrations
> 
> We would like to find out from other co-ho's how you handle the issue of
> holidays celebrations and decorations in common areas.  Holiday
> celebrations like a seder that are time specific in which one can choose
> to participate or not participate, and decorations like lights on a tree
> in the Common House during December, that are always present.
> 
> Michael Arnott
> Cornerstone Cohousing
> Cambridge, Massachusetts
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