McCamant & Durrett Architects

Dear all,

I was reticent at first — another conference?  But then I know that fundamentally this is the time for cohousing and expanding our individual groups possibilities by sharing at this crucial time.  I know that we can do so much more together to not only survive but to thrive and yes, even have some fun.  

Down the road from us, in Lincoln, California, there are 7 out of 10 houses in foreclosure on one cul-de-sac.  I don’t know of this current economic downturn creating one cohousing foreclosure — do you?  And I know of movements within cohousing to help others if some get close.  This is the time for simple houses, simple living, cooperation, cheap land, smart construction, cooperation and sharing.  Come to the Cohousing Conference in Seattle in the end of June if you possibly can — in order to learn how to make your project more economical, more successful, and yes, more fun.  

“We are tied together in the single garment of destiny: caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.  What affects one directly affects all indirectly.  For some strange reason I cannot be all that I ought to be until you are all that you ought to be, and you cannot be all that you ought to be until I am all that I ought to be.  This is the way the universe is structured.”  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in Staying Awake Through the Revolution

“As a Baby Boomer, I’ve joked for a few years that we’ll all end up living communally again because Social Security will be broke . . . this is one of the better ways to envision it.”  (Book review of Senior Cohousing in the Sacramento Bee, April, 2009).  

See www.cohousing.org for details.