Cohousing-L Mailing List: "Larger" Issues [was Pets in Community Guest Room with Meat Eating Visitors]

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 1 Jul 2011, at 9:36 PM, Racheli Gai wrote:

> I don't really think that we can wait until we have 1,000 coho  
> communities, or even 100 times more before we go out and work on other
> things.  We need to work on those issues even while we learn how to  
> live in community and how to treat each other better on a personal  
> level.

I think people who live in cohousing do work on larger issues every day — they 
go to work. But those larger issues don't overshadow cohousing and the issues 
of every day living. They are different. When the men went to the office and 
women stayed home raising the kids and cooking all the meals and making a 
comfortable home, the men's work was not more important. It was just different.

Just because someone has been out raising money for XXX doesn't mean that 
workshare jobs are any less important or that the neighbor's pets are an 
irritant they should ignore in favor of the "larger issues."

Quality of life issues come in all sizes and the focus of this list is the size 
that is addressed in cohousing.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
"Logic will get you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert 
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