Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Gossip

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

Perhaps I should have said "sometimes gossip runs around, other times it runs 
amuck"

I'm a gossip. I'm only complaining about the part that is not helpful to 
building community. 
And the line, of course, is clear as mud. It's easy to run amuck in mud.

-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
www.worcesterfellowship.org
www.mosaic-commons.org
508-450-0431




On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:

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> On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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>> Gossip runs amuck.
> 
> One thing our community is horrible at is gossip. There was a wonderful 
> article in the NYTimes a few years ago on the benefits of gossip. So many 
> people think of gossip only as negative, as if the only thing people wanted 
> to know about each other was muck.
> 
> The authors pointed out that gossip binds a community. It's the sharing of 
> information and feelings and actions that can't be shared any other way. 
> People would have to do everything together all the time and maintain 
> intimate relationships with everyone. 
> 
> [snipped]
> Sharon
> ----
> Sharon Villines
> 
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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