Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Subject: Common meals - mandatory participation?

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

On Saturday, August 2, 2014, Pat Elliott <pdelliott43 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

>  However, I feel our community would be much poorer and less connected if
> we had fewer common meals and a larger portion of the community who didn't
> participate at all. Which leads to my unhappiness about potentially going
> to a completely voluntary system.


You're assuming that participation will decrease if participation were
voluntary. Not sure that's a valid assumption.

Diana