Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Don't discuss this in committees

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On 12/10/2002 2:01 PM, "Kay Argyle" <argyle [at] mines.utah.edu> wrote:

>  If anything, people seemed
> inclined to suppress me, because my indignation made them uncomfortable.
> That made me even less cooperative.

As you might imagine, stuff like this drives me crazy. As the person who
speaks up more often than others I raise a lot of hackles.

> Having been dragged out in the open, and people realizing what they
> themselves were contributing, the situation is much less tense, as people
> mend fences (if you can use that term of a community that makes lack of
> fences a point of pride).  I don't see that it would have changed without
> being brought into the open.

This is why I speak up. Things have to be discussed out in the open. The
rumors are far more destructive than the realities. You can change
realities, you can't change "confidential" rumors.

Sharon
-- 
Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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