A benevolent morning at Earlybirds

Dear members,

We are all wishing both Ana Illsen and Terry Montealegre speedy recoveries from their respective surgeries. We had several vacancies this morning, but with a large dose of benevolence and a few cloned members, here's how it went ... please be benevolent when I butcher this as I try to channel Ana's humor - Chris

We welcomed Carmine Tuozzo from Corpus Christi to our meeting, but he had the good sense to leave before we called on him for Table Topics. Good to see you Carmine - come back any time! Also joining us as a guest/past member was Terry Scheckwitz. We promised to keep them on the maillist in hopes of seeing them again.

In a newly minted segment called "An Educational Minute" TM Chris vowed to help us all navigat pathways and she succeeded in making her point (over many minutes) that it is confusing by getting totally lost.

Then TM Chris led us in Table Topics continuing on the theme of the 60s. We learned that

• TM Aleta listened to Creedence Clearwater Revival whenever she needed to find the bathroom - she won best Table Topics
• TM Randolph had to make up stuff about the British Invasion and the war of the bands
• TM BeckyJo remembers exactly where she was when Kennedy was shot. 
• TM Tom Quinn also remembers exactly where BeckyJo was when Kennedy was shot
• TM Terry Sheckwitz saw with her own eyes when a man walked on the moon, contrary to those that think it was a video created by Artificial Intelligence

Then came the prepared speeches:

• TM Marie Rock crawled her way out of the covid era to teach us how to crawl into our own silent space to counteract the noise all around us
• TM Jim Guld showed us how to tame an unruly audience as he showed us how Toastmasters taught Lionel Messi to be a leader. He won Best Speaker

For Evaluations

• TM Chris thought Marie was being very brave to stand up for the camera after crawling to get there. She won Best Evaluator
• TM Randolph wanted to see Jim's face as he slayed the unruly mob while giving a serious speech.

Here's the link to the YouTube recording. 

See you next week,

Chris Guld - acting recap writer