Bellingham Cohousing

I just watched a Youtube interview of a woman who lives in a cohousing project with 33 seperate dwellings. I found her concluding remarks to be encouraging because of their consistency with my own experience in community living. I came into my current household with all kinds of expectations and visions. That our community would be a pseudo-monastic mission of love to our neighborhood, and that we would effect enormous change. But as day to day life set in, and I gained awareness of the corpus of self serving habits I drag around, I decided to change my focus; first work on myself and how I relate to my roommates. Then consider a more outward focus. The solution is probably more nuanced, but at least the general shift in my attitude has given me more peace.