Gossip: Blabber-Mouthing Hearsay

A social code to live by

Bonni Brodnick
Age of Empathy
Published in
3 min readFeb 14, 2023

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Two young girls with one whispering something, possibly gossip she’s heard. in the ear of the other.
Photo by Vitolda Klein on Unsplash

Lip-flapping, idle prattle, muck-raking, and tittle-tattle. In other words, gossip.

It’s the kind of discourse that creates small-mindedness, and it touches all ages — from children’s whispers in the playground to grown-ups looking askance when you pass them in the supermarket and you thought they were your friend.

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Bonni Brodnick
Age of Empathy

Writer. Creative. Thinker. Humorist. Author of "My Stroke in the Fast Lane" + "Pound Ridge Past." A proud Stroke Survivor. Visit me at bonnibrodnick.com