Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:51:13 -0500
From: Cathy Holt
Subject: Pittsboro
Hi Bob,
Welcome to Pittsboro.
I am sorry that a few unconscious people on the Chatlist have made you uncomfortable about your choice to move here.
I moved here 20 years ago alone, and I have never felt so embraced by a community. We are a warm and welcoming, creative and eclectic group!
People that have written these hurtful and negative posts on the chatlist are not bad people…. I think that they are a just folks that are unaware of any other way to vent the pain in their lives. Unfortunately the way they choose to vent it is ineffective.
When you put someone on the defensive, their ears close down and they can’t hear you. When are we all going to understand that!
If we go into negotiations over things with well being for all as our goal, we won’t have to raise our blood pressure or our voices to be heard.
You’ll find more people in Chatham County on that path then most places that I have been. They just don’t bother responding to the unskilled communicators on the Chatlist that dilute their message with any attacks.
Hope you find that you love it here as I do. A team of wild horses couldn’t drag me away ……
Cathy Holt