I've been very interested in communal living ever since
living in a "co-op" in the west campus as an undergrad at U.T.
There are a lot of efficiencies of scale. You can afford
to have a garden, for example, because there are enough people that
each person only has to do a small amount of the work, and you can
actually put the whole crop to good use. In a group of two
people, It is too much trouble to go to a farmer's market or other
source of really good groceries, but in a group of 20, each person
only has to go 2 or three times a year to have a weekly schedule.
Cooking for 20 people is only about twice as much work as
cooking for two, and you can set up a schedule where each person only
cooks once every couple weeks, but you have a communal dinner cooked
every night. Think of having dinner with 20 good folks every
night.
Okay, maybe I'm being too didactic, but I
really think it's a great idea, a wonderful way to live. I,m
interested if anyone is serious. --- On Sun,
10/17/10, Alice Gordon <alicegordon@earthlink.net>
wrote:
From:
Alice Gordon <alicegordon@earthlink.net>
Subject:
Re: [Weeklong-l] in that moment, so it came to pass.... (your friday
pic)
To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Date:
Sunday, October 17, 2010, 4:36 PM
Ah, now there is a vision indeed. All
aboooooooard!
The only rule will be that we don’t use such
language as citational practice and formational structures. Or
structural formation, or reformationative infrastructure, or
constructive refraction.... Aieeee!
Fractured!
Love,
A
From: JOY MARVIN <JOYANDTHOMAS@MSN.COM>
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Date:
Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:36:56 -0500
To: <weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
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(your friday pic)
We
could have a flea market once a month to help the hoarders and
downsize.... The lawyers and doctors could have booths like
Lucy in Peanuts.... We could put up a few wind generators and
probably create enough power for our needs just by our Shakespeare
festivals. We could organically grow our fruits and vegetables
and grapes! {Starting to sound like old Clarksville in Austin
circa 1970s, etc.} We could have a school of free
thinking - look at all the talent we have to teach! Michael
could do a documentary and win the Oscar, Cannes, Sundance....
Alice could write the screenplay... O most rare visions!
Thank you Jayne!
Love to all,
Joy
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moment, so it came to pass.... (your friday
pic)
Here's a photo and cutline in today's
NYTimes magazine about the environmental activist Annie
Leonard. She lives in the Bay Area in a small bungalow with
10 of her closest friends living on the same street. They've
taken down all the fences, share gardening duties, etc.
"It's like I live in a Monet painting with all my best
friends," she says.
Sounds good to me; we can just
take over an entire block somewhere and hold a street fair and
Shakespeare festival a couple of times a year to raise cash.
I'll run the Limoncello stand:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/10/17/realestate/keymagazine/favorite-spaces-8.html
Jayne
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on behalf of Maggie Megaw [maggie@bizaffairs.com]
Sent: Saturday, October
16, 2010 4:37 PM
To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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Re: [Weeklong-l] in that moment, so it came to pass....
(your friday pic)
Joking aside, very interested to
hear about this group. Our friends in NH are living in
a commons-type situation, though not “outside capitalism.”
I am ready for the geriatric commune where you don’t
actually retire.
Love you,
Mag
From: weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:weeklong-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org]
On Behalf Of Alice Gordon
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010
8:38 PM
To: weeklong-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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Re: [Weeklong-l] in that moment, so it came to pass....
(your friday pic)
Okay, Maggie,
I’m ready to
start a collective that lives outside of
capitalism.
Radical commons group in residence.
Wow.
Headspinning.
Love,
More
later,
Al
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:35:43 -0700
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came to pass.... (your friday pic)
She
was amazing...Talk about a kid who
sparkles.
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She was
performing these same lines today at recess at Pease
Elementary....!
Happy weekend
all,
cs
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