| Am I Alone in This? Bill Bottrell in the January 2001 New Settler |
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haven't done much of that, but I've always envisioned it that way. - Also organizing. If twelve people are trying to get something done and they want to expand to be thirty people, I'd like them to be able to do it there whether I'm involved or not. If they need a room to move around in, to teach, to discuss. What is your sense of privacy, Bill? BILL: The place is designed so well for that. I could go into the kitchen area - or even the kitchen could be available if people needed that. I could go into my bedroom. The rooms are so big and generous. I don't have to feel marginalized. The two small bedrooms can be locked. It's possible to lock it up so there is a large bathroom and a hallway and the library that people can move around in. |
How do your daughters feel about your sharing the family spaces? BILL: They love it. They have their Halloween parties. They get to do things their way too - it's their house too. My daughter entertains her friends here all the time - they run wild at my house. So what is that like? - watching another generation run wild. BILL: I can't change myself at this edge. But the kids don't take advantage of me. They respect me and I learn a lot from them. Because part of what I want to do is to bring back
a consensus
where there has been cults defined by generation.
I saw the media actively and conspiratorially doing that during
the
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