HeyJaredNotes From the Common House Substack
This substack will have two themes: cohousing and my passion project, Gratitude Village, plus, maybe, possibly my personal thoughts on life and excerpts from the Lucy Dakota Books.
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Who Gets to Have Choices? (opens the original)
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When I first started thinking seriously about cohousing, I wasn’t trying to solve the housing crisis. I wasn’t thinking about housing equity or Area Median Income or development costs. I was looking for a more connected way to live. I wanted to know my neighbors, share meals regularly, have people around who noticed when someone needed help, and live in a place where connection happened naturally as part of everyday life. I was thinking about belonging, about my daughter’s future and about how l
I Fell in Love With Cohousing, Then I Realized I Couldn't Afford It (opens the original)
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Long before Gratitude Village existed, I was looking for a cohousing community to join. I wasn’t looking to start one. That idea wasn’t even on my radar at the time. I wanted to find a community that already existed, buy a modest home there and settle in. I loved the idea of knowing my neighbors, sharing some things instead of everyone owning everything separately, gathering for meals when I wanted to and having people around who would notice if they hadn’t seen me for a few days. I read everyth
Learning to Live Like Neighbors (opens the original)
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One of the things that has surprised me most about creating Gratitude Village has very little to do with land, architecture or financing. Those are certainly fun and challenging, but they aren’t the part of this journey that has surprised me the most. Instead, I’ve begun to realize that creating an intentional community is asking all of us to learn something we may never have been taught in the first place: how to truly live like neighbors.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https
The Gratitude Captain (opens the original)
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There comes a point near the end of every Community meeting, Founder’s circle or Zoom call when someone calls out, “Gratitude Captain!”If you don’t know what that means, you’re probably wondering whether we’ve become a pirate ship instead of a cohousing community.The title actually belongs to one of our Founding Members. Well, to be completely honest, he didn’t exactly volunteer for the job. His wife “volun-told” him that he would be our Gratitude Captain and the role has stuck ever since. Befor
The Difference Between Community and Belonging (opens the original)
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For nearly ten years, I dreamed about visiting a particular cohousing community.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="871" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yoUc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstac
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