Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution by Marjorie Kelly

Author:Marjorie Kelly [Kelly, Marjorie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: non.fiction
ISBN: 9781605093109
Goodreads: 13434598
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2012-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

On the night I’d first arrived and had dinner with John and Chris, I was struck not only by the welcoming sense of community at Island Cohousing but also by the simplicity of the home where this company president lived. When John drove me around that next day, he took me past the house where he and Chris had lived before, which was larger and more valuable than their current home. Their cohousing home was simple. Four bedrooms. And on the first floor, one combined kitchen, dining, and living space. The staircase post was a bare branch from one of the wizened oaks on the property, stripped and sanded but not otherwise industrialized. There was a single rug on a bare wood floor, some simple furniture. That was it. John and Chris don’t have a glitzy lifestyle—not because they can’t afford it but because they don’t want it. In relationship and in community, they seem to have found what they sought.

This is sufficiency at work—a genuine sense of having enough, feeling satisfied. Another term for sufficiency is happiness.

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