Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Larger" Issues

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

Going to work means working on larger issues?  How so? --
I was thinking about the kind of work for pay people in my community  
do, and the overwhelming majority doesn't get close
to dealing with  larger issues as part of those jobs.

Racheli.

On Jul 1, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:

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