Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Diversity in Co-housing

[Monty Berman (mberman116]

Good morning all,
Sharon and Diana are both right regarding diversity and living together. Like 
the Japanese pillow approach to looking at differences (if I've got it right), 
where there is one corner of the pillow where I am right and you are wrong, 
another where you are right and I am wrong, and then where we are both right 
AND both wrong, and finally where neither is right or wrong (where things are 
just as they are ---my preference).
 
In any event, Diana's mandate about putting more attention on just what ittakes 
to live well together resonates with me.
 
Monty Berman    EcoVillage at Ithaca, NY> 
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Message: 1> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:51:14 -0500> From: Sharon Villines 
<sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Developer Driven 
Cohousing> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>  > On Feb 24, 2008, 
at 11:42 AM, Diana Kardia wrote:> > > By putting more attention on just what 
it> > takes to live well together amidst all our wild, ridiculous, wonderful 
individuality, social identities, and Myers Briggs types, the communities we 
are building can be strengthened and maybe even transformed to be more of who 
we seek to be (given how often diversity gets mentioned in community missions 
statements).> > Diversity is in the eye of the beholder. When we know each 
other well, we think we are diverse. A person looking from outside, may not 
think so at all -- as I hear from my daughter when she visits.> > Sharon> ----> 
Sharon Villines> Takoma Village Cohousing,Washington DC> 
http://www.takomavillage.org>