While I lived at cohousing I saw the wonderful who dunnit movie – Knives Out. Then, when everything went crazy at cohousing it felt like I was in the movie. I thought we had all moved in to be a cooperative, caring community. Instead, I heard all sorts of stories of this person not liking that person. How what this person does bothers this person. How this person can’t trust that person. How this person feels this person is fake. I heard others call other idiots. Wow. I had no idea all this simmering tension was laying dormant till someone (me – now being pushed out) was available to let the truth out. It saddened me – I wanted us to assume the best in each other and try to respect each other. Instead, all knives were out.
