Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Like-Minded"

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

This has been an interesting thread.

Back in Jan 2003 there was a similar thread in which the term
"like-minded" came up.  It can be found by going to our subject search 
tool at http://nzpp.virtualave.net/coho
and searching for:
cultural + racial + diversity
(Please ignore all the ads and you may have to hit reload to get results -
I hope to move / get this fixed one of these times... )

While I dont live in cohousing, we have a great neighborhood where we have
done some intentional organizing with cohousing-like goals.  I remember at
the final session at the 1997 cohousing conference in Seattle, commenting
on how it had been great but I looked forward to getting back to my
neighborhood where it isn't so "white" (I dont recall my exact words...)
I usually summarize the neighborhood ans about 50-50 white/non white
depending on what boundaries you are looking at.

This morning when I took the trash and recycling out, my African-American
neighbor, Larry, said "Thank you" from down the street.  I walked up to
chat and find out what he was thanking me for.  (I'd closed his garage
door over the weekend when Inoticed it open and had left a voice mail
about it.)  He told about his trip to North Dakota to take his second son
to college.  I asked about his school; he's principal at an inner city
elementary school a couple neighborhoods away. 

I'd miss having neighbors like Larry around.

On the other hand I am often impressed by how few Conservative Republican
I know personally (and they do exist in Minnesota; they currently dominate
our state government).  So I guess my neighborhood could be described as
"like-minded" with respect to many political / philosophical issues 
while being very racially diverse. 

BTW the house next door to us (3 bedroom story and half ) which could be
very nice with some work is for sale.  We'd love to have some
"like-minded" move in there.

By that term "like-minded" I mean people of any race, gender preference,
age etc who as Lynn Nadeau said " who have in common with me a value on
community, cooperation, environmental responsibility, open-mindedness,
peace and social justice, conscious child rearing, sustainable local
economy, organic food."  (Tho I might quibble on the degree value put on
organic food...)   For details, email me or see our out of date web page
"Homewood cohousing" via my link page - URL at end.

A couple of specific comments from the thread:

Elaine <itchyink [at] spiritone.com> wrote:

> Just read my own post. Maybe i should have added vain and arrogant to
> the list? LOL.
> > In my community everyone is
> > ...highly intelligent...like me
> Elaine 

Right on, Elaine.  I like having serious folks around who can laugh at
themselves too.


Matt Lawrence wrote in part:

> Eris Weaver wrote:
> > I don't WANT to live in
> > community with a bunch of Republican, NRA folks whose
> > favorite form of entertainment is TV!
>
> I think I'm rather offended by this.

Matt, what specifically are you offended by in this (or something I did
not quote)? Maybe you have some TV addiction as I do?

Fred

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