Cohousing-L Mailing List: Did your community celebrate last night?

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Only in cohousing... my experiences last night

- Over our common-house dinner, of about 30 folks, we listened to returns on NPR
- Karly talked about making cookies before she had to meet with her student
- During dinner, Karly (my wife of 28 years) fell and hurt her ankle -
many rushed to her aid (including a former nurse)
- One of our neighbors said that she'd bring us some home-made cookies
so Karly could relax
- I went home to do some online work while watching Broadcast TV on a
few channels using our TIVO
- About 10 other community members set up an impromptu Net broadcast
watching party in the common house (no broadcast TV there)
- Karly did some ESL training for a high tech professional in the
common house living room
- My internet connection suddenly went dead (and I lost a little work)
- I called the common house to ask about it - turned out the watching
party allocated all our bandwidth to their feed
- After I squawked about it, they restored community-wide access, so I
finished work on the Survey I posted last night
- Karly limped home, her ankle was still sore
- After McCain's consession, one of our adolescent boys stopped by our
home to invite us over for a champagne celebration in the common house
- Karly and I returned to the common house to be with about 15 very
happy folks, one of which cracked out a few bottles of Asti
- We realized that Fred and Nancy - and Chuck and Marilyn - probably
wouldn't be coming over (both are BIG Obama supporters)
- After pouring some glasses to take to them, it was suggested we take
the party to their house (the two couples have homes in the same
duplex)
- We descended, en masse, filling Fred and Nancy's living room to even
more ebullience
- Lots of jokes and excitement as we heard each other's joy and
speculated about the future
- Toasts began, considering the future of our country - with much hope
about the environment, health care, education, employment,
participatory democracy, and possibly even a future world of peace
- We went home and called some family members

Hooray for good neighbors - and this chance to celebrate!

Craig Ragland
Songaia member since 1992