We're On Our Way

I'm chatting online with Rebecca who's in Arizona while Mary prepares spaghetti in our new common kitchen for this evening's meal. I've not elaborated on our experiment in family relations that commenced in earnest last Tuesday. What has been in the planning stages for a couple of years now is putting rubber to the road, so to speak. It's an experiment in more eco-friendly, economically efficient housing. Somewhat to our surprise, after having first looked into communal living through the Boulder Free University back in the early seventies, it turns out that the seminal community consists of our daughter, Rachel, and her husband, Steve. We have literally split the housing costs fifty-fifty which provides us with much more amenable common areas (kitchen, dining, living, entertainment, etc) than we could afford separately. As the experiment progresses, I anticipate that other areas more conducive to a sustainable lifestyle will emerge for our common sharing. To borrow those two words used in the New Testament to describe the reaction of those who witnessed the reality of the Christ in their midst, I am both astonished and amazed that the dream is becoming real.