Dear Members, Guests and Friends,
Our Test Speaker, TM Bianca, delighted us with a purpose-filled speech about a purpose-filled life. The answer? Love, joy and be a go-giver. Go-getters please abstain from signing up to be Test Speakers!
Our participating evaluators exceeded all expectations:
* TM Paolo praised TM Bianca's elegance, eloquence and confidence and asked her to step back and redirect the angle of the camera to inspire us more. He Won First Place.
* TM The Tom asked TM Bianca to show the HOW to attain those goals and talk more about regrets, if any, while standing back from the camera. The camera distance seems to be a recurring male thing.
* TM Terri liked the logical progression of achievements and the emphasis on spiritual principles that guide us coupled with TM Bianca's vivacious gestures. She Won Third Place.
* TM Marie highlighted TM Bianca's enriching questions aimed at the audience, suggested she stand up to enhance vivacious gestures and avoid 'gonnas" and the like. She Won Second Place.
While we waited for the Contest Judge to count and recount the hanging chads and votes, TM Aleta woke us all up with classical quotes from The Second Bard (aka Charlie Dickens) and we were to discover that...
* TM Chris rightly believes that attitude is what makes us perceive the same event either negatively or positively.
* TM Bianca has been bent, broken, reinvented, reshaped, flexed and remolded and the result was a vivacious person who focuses on what she can do.
* TM Terri believes giving is better than receiving and it is our sacred duty to give to the homeless and the poor, but make sure it's an honest charitable organization!
* TM Tom sees the world through the filter he was taught as a boy and agrees that no one is useless if they can lighten someone's load.
* TM BeckyJo shed some copious tears in her life, on the front pew at church, where no one intruded in her tears, and thus she made space for God's grace. She Won Best Table Topics Award.
* I, Ana, stated that the trifles of life make the spice of life but the best is not to sweat the small stuff, and it's all small stuff anyway!
* TM Pam confessed that she is at a mashed potatoes level, not at an ethereal level, and that's the best thing she's ever done.
* TM Marie likes mutual respect when dealing with those who share her blood and those who give and receive her blood.
* TM Paolo could not fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine because he's still recovering from transatlantic mid-aiir imbibing of a good rose on an Alitalia flight.
The Contest was conducted rather smoothly in spite of a few pesky technical glitches, handled seamlessly by our Chief Judge TM Pam S.
The Word of the Day was
VIVACIOUS, adjective
Happy and lively in an appealing way.
Example: EarlyBirds Toastmaster is certainly a vivacious group of Thursday morning early risers.
Below is the link to the recording
See you next week!
Ana I.
Vivacious Recap Writer
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