Dear Members, Guests and Friends:
Avid photographer TM Chris stirred our photographic memories with intriguing questions:
- Returning TM Lisa marvels at how wealthy she would be if for a few decades she had not ordered doubles of pictures of random people she knew for a fact she would never see again in her life. However, she singlehandedly kept old Eckerd Drugs (precursor of our current drugstores for you millennials in the crowd) in business quite a while longer.
- TM Beckyjo is just not that interested in herself and does not like how she looks on camera. Selfies are not her forte. Her forte is taking pictures of packages she ships to prove in Court to the carrier parcel service that packages leaving her premises are immaculate, not torn and tattered as some arrive at destination. Check your cable networks soon for a TV miniseries called The People vs The Freight Forwarder Turned Vandalizer.
- TM Jose has wedding albums from two weddings in two continents. He is censored from access to the first. He has a hair fetish, however, which will cause perplexity and consternation in future generations seeking his family legacy. Thousands of pictures of all hair, no face. He Won Best Table Topics Award.
- TM Mildred vehemently states that she is not one for losing pictures. Phone to PC to folder transfers assure that. Then she prints them and puts them into albums and is now sending her 5th invitation for family members to come and retrieve their albums. So far no RSVPs have been received.
- Guest Terri loooves taking pictures although she quite doesn’t know why. It has progressed into taking pictures of random inanimate objects she casually encounters. She and her therapist are working hard to uncover the source of this tendency. Stay tuned.
- TM Jeff reminisced into the very distant past – about 4 years ago- when people took pictures and actually announced to the other protagonists they were going to post them on social media platforms. Oh, the very idea….
Then came prepared speeches….
- TM Aleta pondered the wisdom of knowing your audience before launching on a motivational speech. She indicated she most enjoys self-talk because she really likes talking to intelligent people and hearing what they have to say.
- I, Recap Writer, aka Long Tall Ana, had to give up my seat in Heaven due to an uninhabited confessional whose window screen was below my view. On a positive note, I reached many shelf summits as a good overreacher. I Won Best Speaker Award.
- Master Composter TM Pam awed us with a well prepared, inspirational Composting speech with a plethora of shared screen graphics. Composting, she revealed, doubles up as a substitute for many exercise disciplines. She Won Most Improved Speaker.
And then we had loving Evaluations….
- TM Tom enjoyed TM Aleta’s speech and pointed out that it’s not what we say, it’s what other people hear. As TM Aleta herself realized, it’s not always possible to walk in other people’s mocassins (is that PC anymore?) okay, someone else’s penny-loafers.
- TM Yvonne, a self-defined slow-getter, recommended that I (Ana of Wuthering Heights) pause longer between funnies to give listeners a chance to get it. She liked the history part and brought up the Yin and the Yang – as a short person relying on a tall person to reach for those top shelves. She Won Best Evaluator Award.
- TM Carmine praised TM Pam with an alliteration (TM Carmine’s all-time highest form of praise), dedication, discipline, devotion. However, he thinks a “behind-the-graphics switcharoo” may have taken place and a Compost-Speaker-For-Hire gave the speech, as we did not see TM Pam for the duration.
The Word of the Day was:
PRECIPITATE, verb
1)To hasten the occurrence of
2)To fall to the surface in the form of condensed water, snow, hail, sleet. (Condensed milk need not apply).
Here's the link to today’s recording
See you next week!
Ana
Outgoing Sargeant-at-Arms
