“Gossip is Like Cutting Open a Feather Pillow”
August 12, 2025
Gossip is a simple word, yet it carries a heavy weight. It can flutter through conversations with the lightness of a feather and wreak havoc like a storm. This thought was driven home to me after reading a children’s book entitled, “Mr. Peabody’s Apples”. The main character in the book is Mr. Peabody, an elementary school teacher who spends his summer coaching a boy’s little league team.
One Saturday morning, after a game, a young boy, Tommy, sees…