| Private Room and Bath available in West San Fernando Valley in California.
Penfield House is the home of Terry Lee Brussel, founder and organizer of Live the Dream, an education and support group for those who, originally inspired by the writings of Robert Heinlein, Robert Rimmer and Marion Zimmer Bradley, are now ready to LIVE such alternative lifestyles as cooperative living, open relationships and group marriage. Many of our concepts on multiply committed relationships come from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land and Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Live the Dream also sponsors a Nest of Church of All Worlds, the real life, over fifty year old spiritual movement inspired by Stranger in a Strange Land.
Our home is a beautiful one in a nice neighborhood of the west San Fernando Valley. It has two fireplaces, a high ceilinged grand living room, dining area and big country kitchen. Washer and dryer available. We have a clothing optional hot tub which usually has good company available and music of your choice playing in it. We share good conversation, holidays, outings, special occasions, hugs... and household chores.
Imagine coming home to a beautiful house, a well kept yard filled with flowers and young trees. The fire place may be lit if it is winter. You come home to the smell of something delicious being cooked by one of your housemates. Or perhaps you are the housemate doing that cooking—that nurturing.
You share a good dinner with whoever is at home tonight. Afterward, you might enjoy the massage chair, go to the privacy of your room, soak in the hot tub with good friends, join a lively discussion in the living room or cuddle by the fire. Sound good?
MAKE YOUR FANTASY A REALITY…
Private ROOM with FULL BATH AVAILABLE IN GROUP HOUSE
WEST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY – CALIFORNIA
If you have an interest in living in a lovely home with warm, caring, like minded people, call (818) 886-0069 ext 3 for more information.
RENT: $715 a month+your share of utilities+ $65 a week for food and sundries.
MAY BE REDUCED BY AS MUCH AS $300 FOR COOKING, CLEANING and SHOPPING CHORES BEYOND WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED YOUR FAIR SHARE IN A GROUP HOUSE. That would look doing the weekly grocery shopping for all four of us yourself, daily dish washing, cooking 3 dinners a week, Sunday breakfast and occasional errands . You would do some of that as household chores anyway, but not all of it.
If you are really up to it physically, I’m also paying a maid $105 a week for 7 hours of mopping, vacuuming, scrubbing the kitchen and doing quite a bit of laundry. I am not suggesting taking that on unless you really like that sort of thing…
Three cats in residence.
NON SMOKING ABSOLUTELY
CONSIDER GROUP LIVING
Are YOU Ready for Group Living ?
Many people together can live cheaper and a whole lot nicer than that same number could live separately. Over the years at our Live The Dream gatherings we've done an exercise in which we have everyone write down what they could afford to pay down for a home, what they could pay monthly, where they want to live, what kind of people they want to live with, etc. Invariably, we discover that living together costs less and is quite affordable for most people.
WHO LIVES HERE?
I am Terry Lee Brussel: fifty-eight years young Lady, passionate about LIFE, hypnotherapist, Judeo Pagan. I’ve been involved in multiply committed relationships since my late teens. I founded Live the Dream in 1987 as an education and support group for that life style. It was a spin off of Family Synergy which had promoted poly living since 1971—long before the word was coined. I’ve been doing hypnotherapy since 1969 (when I was sixteen) and I now help coaches and hypnotists to build successful practices nationwide, in Canada and the UK. I can also do home made chicken soup from scratch, creative salads…fruit omlets and other tasty things.
Our own group house (this one bought 2003) came together from several different sources. Carl Dietz moved in with my second husband and I January 15, 1995. We had met him a few months before at a Whole Life Expo where he and my son politely wrestled over who would carry my stuff to a hypnosis demonstration I was giving. He lived with me until his passing October 2, 2011.
Will “Taliesin” (the Bard) attended Live the Dream meetings off and on beginning in 1997. Will is a published author who writes novels on alternative lifestyles and is carrying on for Robert Rimmer, a fellow New Englander, since Bob’s passing . He is active in lobbying for freedom of speech and other first amendment issues, issues also dear to my own heart. He had become an intimate friend for several months before he moved in with us. When we did the exercise of writing down what you could put towards rent on a place, where you were willing to live and what kind of people you wanted to live with, etc. at a Live the Dream meeting in June of 2002, I looked at what he wrote and asked if he was seriously available for living in a group house. He was. Will moved in when we bought our current home in 2003. He’s still with us as I write this in October of 2011. He is also Live the Dream’s and Success Center’s web master. .
Lawrence has been with us since 2008. He attended a Live the Dream All Hallow’s Eve party in 2006, was a hypnosis client for a while in return for some handyman work which I much appreciated –he does it like a craftsman proud of his work. He has a masters degree in screenwriting and is working on making that a paying profession. Lawrence also moves Energy and does a masterful job of leading rituals.
Our newest housemate, Greg Barnes, is also my handfasted primary partner--the only one in this house with whom I have a romantic relationship. Unless You, future housemate, are the kind of person I could have such a relationship with. Not required, but mmm...
Greg and I met through OK Cupid in July of 2008 by phone, talked several times without meeting and he finally showed up at a Live the Dream All Hallow’s Eve party 10-30-09. We Shared Water shortly after that. An avid Science Fiction reader for most of his life, Greg gave a talk on Stranger in a Strange Land when I included him on the Live the Dream panel at his first science fiction convention-- Los Con November of 2009. He moved in with us 12-20-09. A year after we met, we decided to be handfasted . The ceremony was February 5, 2011 in the presence of friends and loved ones including many of our Water Brothers. Greg is a yogi and teacher of yoga (now doing this for some of my hypnosis clients), an accomplished professionally trained cook, a knife maker, Smith, hunter, maker of fine bows and master of many other survival skills. He has done marketing for Success Center’s trade shows and helped put together the scripts, CDs, books etc we provide for clients and professionals nationally and internationally. He is now studying professional hypnosis with me.
Yes, we do have some cottage industry going on here. If you do anything involving human enrichment, we can probably give you clients for it. If you can sell, I’ll put you to work for sure and pay you commissions. However, we do want a house mate who can pay his or her rent regardless of such opportunities. This is a cooperative household, not a commune. Everyone pays his share. Food and sundries $65 a week—tell grocery shoppers for that week what you want bought or be a grocery shopper. Several meals are shared ones and the rest is fix your own from what’s in the fridge. | Community location is placed at the center of the zip/postal code, city/state, or city/country (not based on street addresses) |
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination: Because our housing is a single housing unit and requires the sharing of bathroom, kitchen and common space membership/residency may be restricted based on sex/gender in accordance with the law. Our community does not discriminate based on race/color, national origin, religion, family status (i.e. having children, not having children, or being pregnant), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, source of income, age, creed, personal appearance, political affiliation, HIV infection, military/veteran status, unfavorable military discharge, gender identity or expression, receiving public assistance, or domestic abuse.
Our community does not discriminate in regards to housing based on race/color, national origin, religion, sex/gender, family status (i.e. having children, not having children, or being pregnant), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, source of income, age, creed, personal appearance, political affiliation, HIV infection, military/veteran status, unfavorable military discharge, gender identity or expression, receiving public assistance, or being the victim of domestic abuse.
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