The First Senior Co-Housing Community in Port Townsend, WA
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January was a BUSY month! This edition highlights several activities - music, pies, dog-runs, art, exercise classes and more.
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❤️Mack started us off by giving a lesson in pie-crust making. Several members accepted the challenge and we all benefitted from their efforts. Delicious! ❤️
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Combo Choro performed early Brazilian jazz for us. You can hear a sample here but the sound in our Common House is hard to beat.
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What Members are Saying about
Anne:
I’m beginning to feel more comfortable. This is the first time I’ve ever lived so close to other people. At first it was difficult to have people walking by all the time or stepping out my door and feeling like I had no privacy.
Once I had my paintings on the walls, my plants thriving and the heritage of my grandparents’ rug under my feet, my inner space has come together and I am more comfortable with my space in the community.
I’m in the middle of a learning process, not an intellectual one anymore, but the ‘doing’ of it, and becoming more comfortable with living in it.
I am in a time of adjustment learning how to speak my mind on things I feel strongly about while not offending someone else. I’m learning how to do that. ❤️
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David H.:
It’s hard to not have my garage right by my house due to my mobility issues and I am still annoyed by that aspect of things. I love the house, love the community meals, game night, movie night and the other things that pop up.
It’s such a self-contained community and I love it that whatever you want to learn or do can happen by just checking in with other people. We can create the activities that we want to share with others.
----Pam
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Transitioning into Community
Pat:
I keep pinching myself because this is so different than anything I’ve ever done and I ❤️love it. It’s a bit magical to live here. The common house is cozy, warm and inviting. Today a few of us were over doing some cleaning up, while someone else was reading while laundry was being completed and when we all finished we just gravitated to sitting down together and having an informal chat. Just being comfortable with each other.
I’m amazed at how people help each other out with immediate needs and take on tasks that they see need be done without being asked first. It’s easier living here than the process of building it was. Although there are differences of opinion, it’s not acrimonious. We’re learning how to make it work.
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Phil:
It’s a big change yet a pleasant change. What I enjoy is it's keeping me busier than I thought. I can be rather sloth-like and I’m not now. I enjoy helping people. Although I miss the views of the water and mountain from my old home, I would rather be here than there. I notice that I need to allow more time to walk anywhere just because I run into people along the way, stop to help them with something or talk. It means that I have better time management.
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
-Coretta Scott King
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Please join us for
the FIRST
Quimper Village Open House
Sunday, April 29th, 2018
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Visit Quimper Village as we participate in National Cohousing Open House Day. Hours are from 11-4 and light refreshments will be provided. Parking is limited so please consider car-pooling with friends.
RSVP here
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