Tag: Gossip

Quote of the Day: Gossip

 

“It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.” — Lawrence G. Lovasik

Father Lovasik didn’t mince words. He made it clear that gossip is a hateful activity, and those who indulged in it were to be held in contempt.

A Civil Tongue in Your Head!

 

No, this was not President Trump’s final retort, to Jim Acosta, during the donnybrook in the East Room. But, if you read this little tale, you may find the phase on your lips at socially delicate moments. I report it just as my father tells it. Use with caution, my friends.

A Tale from My Father: The Inquisitive Postmistress

My home township in Pennsylvania had three crossroads villages, each with a general store. Each store had its own personality. The staff was typically small, two or three persons. It would offer canned and dry groceries, plus milk, sodas, and such. I remember the red letter day, in the late 1940’s, when one of them acquired an open top, floor model freezer, and offered, for the first time, Birdseye frozen vegetables.

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The weekly news cycles in recent months have been full of silliness and garbage. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of it. It seems that every news broadcast or internet news site has flooded our lives with stories that are nothing more than gossip or people just seeking a bunch of attention […]

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I believe you can teach an old dog new tricks, but for this old dog, it can be slow and painful. So I need some help along the way. To facilitate this process, I have begun a Jewish practice called Mussar . (Hat tip to @podkayneofisrael for telling me about it.) In his book, Alan Morinis provides […]

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Be a Verb, Not a Noun

 

“I can’t do it! I am __________!”

How many times have we heard this complaint from children, and indeed from adults? How many times have we said it ourselves? This protest sounds reasonable, but it limits us in extremely dangerous ways.

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Politico shares an astonishing article titled The Secret Lives of Hillary and Bill in the White House.” It tells of various tantrums as described by the White House help. Here’s the jaw-dropping ending: One day, according to Payne, he was walking through the second-floor private kitchen when an agent walked in behind him waiting to […]

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