A full house and a full agenda set the stage for our March 23 meeting. The theme was "Weclcome to Our Home". Each member was asked to bring a guest, and we were fortunate enough to see 7 new faces around the table. We also gained one new member! Welcome Roseanne.
The word of the night was: fick·le /ˈfɪkəl/
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–adjective
adj. Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
[Middle English fikel, from Old English ficol, deceitful.]
fick'le·ness n., fick'ly adv.
adj. Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious.
[Middle English fikel, from Old English ficol, deceitful.]
fick'le·ness n., fick'ly adv.
1. likely to change, esp. due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable: fickle weather.
2. not constant or loyal in affections: a fickle lover.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME fikel, OE ficol deceitful, akin to fācen treachery, fician to deceive, gefic deception
bef. 1000; ME fikel, OE ficol deceitful, akin to fācen treachery, fician to deceive, gefic deception
—Related forms
fick·le·ness, noun
un·fick·le, adjective
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The Table Topics: Led by our resident auctioneer Theresa Taylor, 7 participants took to the lectern to speak on various topics centred around our home theme. John told us what he thinks of when he thinks of home. Earle spoke about the home his family lived in when he was younger and how the town was not like it used to be. Brigitte shared some traditions she started in her home and remembered some that her mother had when she was young. Ven talked about food from his ancestral home, and our soldier, Chris told us how he would respond to children reading him a welcome home poem after returning home from a tour of duty. Our church minister, Malcolm let us know his point of view on the prodigal son who returns home. And Harry, our club President told us what the line from our national anthem, "Our home and native land" means to him. All of our speakers did an excellent job of engaging the audience with their "homey" thoughts and the result was a 3 - way tie for best table topics. Congratulations to Brigitte, Harry and Earle.
Practice Table Topics at Home
The Table Topics: Led by our resident auctioneer Theresa Taylor, 7 participants took to the lectern to speak on various topics centred around our home theme. John told us what he thinks of when he thinks of home. Earle spoke about the home his family lived in when he was younger and how the town was not like it used to be. Brigitte shared some traditions she started in her home and remembered some that her mother had when she was young. Ven talked about food from his ancestral home, and our soldier, Chris told us how he would respond to children reading him a welcome home poem after returning home from a tour of duty. Our church minister, Malcolm let us know his point of view on the prodigal son who returns home. And Harry, our club President told us what the line from our national anthem, "Our home and native land" means to him. All of our speakers did an excellent job of engaging the audience with their "homey" thoughts and the result was a 3 - way tie for best table topics. Congratulations to Brigitte, Harry and Earle.
Practice Table Topics at Home
The Speakers: We had a full speakers showcase; three speakers in total, two of which were PowerPoint presentations including mine. I was up first and gave the audience a tour of our newly developed website. Unfortunately, I went over time and got the bell. It's funny how when I looked at my speech on paper I thought, "how will I even make it to 5 minutes?" Then, once I started practicing it, I realized it needed quite a bit of editing to keep to the time limit.
Denise Paquette, who took the best speaker ribbon, followed with a presentation on square foot gardening. Denise is a great speaker with a relaxed and laid back delivery style that makes it so easy to listen to her. And what a fascinating topic. I had a garden last year, and I extended it for this coming season because I felt I needed more space. Well apparently, the concept of square foot gardening is getting higher yields with less space. I was surprised to learn that 80% of a traditional garden is what we walk on and grows nothing! Some of the benefits Denise pointed out were: we can save water, there's less weeds, yields are five times the harvest of a traditional garden layout and it's less work. Apparently, the book Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew is a great resource. I'm definitely going to look into adapting my plot to this new way of gardening. Or I guess not so new. Denise made it look so easy. And this from a woman who claims she hates gardening, weeding, bugs and dirt. :-)
Our final speaker for the evening was Teri Kingston DTM. Teri renamed her Music as Medicine speech The Rhythm of Life and reworked some of the content in preparation for the area contest which was held in Morrisburg on Sunday March 28 2010. In the end Teri decided on a brand new speech and won the contest with it. Congratulations Teri.
I have a new video camera, hopefully we will be able to post some video footage at the next meeting.
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