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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Branded

The hot molten medal

Comes out of the fire

The owlet pierced ear

The law hath required

Branded

 

Rest assured o reader

It‘s not an easy thing

Know the insignia

Of all the strange beings

Branded

 

Sometimes for slaves

Yea even for crimes

Demonic spirits mark men

Others signs of the times

Branded

 

Snakes and dragons

Crosses- favorite bands

Fascinating addictive

These colored sands

Branded

 

So if you look

You will see the mark

The stroke of the owner

Expression of hearts

Branded


Toastmasters- Goodwill speech

My assignment for our upcoming meeting is a 5 to 7 minute public relations type speech for toastmasters. I will be presenting the below speech this week at our local club.

 

 

It all started in the basement of a YMCA in the year 1924. Ralph C. Smedley The director of education noticed a need for public speaking skills as well as those required to head meetings. During this period of prohibition and tumult when Capone was king a new nonprofit organization emerged. Today it has now grown to around 250,000 members in more than 12,500 clubs and resides in 106 countries. It   offers time proven, and enjoyable, ways to practice and hone communication and leadership skills.  I am of course talking about toastmasters and what it can do for you.

 

It has many benefits the first of which is helping you define who you are, clarifying both to yourself and others what you believe. In preparing speeches you must both articulate what you want to communicate and do it in such a way to enrapture your audience.

 

You will discover what truly interests you and how to utilize what doesn’t. For instance many prefer so called soft ball questions such as what do you do for fun.  While such inquisitives have their place they are actually more difficult for this speaker to address because, though they do have lasting social ramifications, they have little direct relevance.  Of course there is always games, footfall, and so on but these topics are relevant to only those in specific niches of culture.

 

Topics such as history, politics and faith scintillate this presenters mind. Those of Christianity and evolution excite because they have consequences in our lives, our morals, our purse strings, our nation, and our eternal souls.  We continue our education from the presidential curse to the bay of pigs and the Cuban missile crisis onward to  modern socialistic agendas and how we respond to evil and its face of terror.

 

In essence you must make the audience care about what you care about you do this with a thorough knowledge and passion for your topic.

 

This group allows you to discover more about the diverse community around you without ever going beyond the four corners of the local society. The topics people chose, the answers they give, and the unguarded listening observed all continually teach valuable lessons. 

 

 You will have an opportunity to help others to excel and live out the American dream which is epitomized by the success of freedom driven by the very real opportunity for failure. For no true success is accomplished without the chance of not succeeding.

 

In the end you learn the power of words what they are capable of doing and of not. For often times what we do not say says more about us than or words possibly can. All of this thanks to Toastmasters.

 

In the end they have fulfilled their mission statement which as you know is “to provide a mutually positive and supportive learning environment in which each member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills, which in turn fosters self confidence and personal growth”

 

 


Sunday, November 15, 2009

 Dark clouds rising

White puffy wisps wander the sky  

Amid a blue ocean of azure blue

Yet felt is that dread threat  

That internal barometer       

Imminent- Dark clouds rising               

 

Swirling birds of prey wheel in glee 

Or is it, that they are startled and flee?

Yea flee from what but chill

Nay I hear a croak- Oh harbinger

Pox of doom-Dark clouds rising

 

Up on the peaks the vultures stare

A definite change in the gentle air

Run for the shelter

Hurry- for in this there is thy hope

Here outlast- dark clouds rising


Holidays

1.I love Thanksgiving and the historical and Christ centered richchness of it.

2. I love Christmas which I consider a redeemed holiday since it was originally nothing to do with Christ though paganism still struggles to dominate the day.

3. I hate the term holiday party it is too PC for me. The term is Christmas whether you are a Christian, pagan, or don't care.


Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The day before Veterans Day

Tomorrow the base honor guard will be presenting colors in several ceremonies and I have the Priviledge  of being in one of these. This weekend our base is hosting retirees.

Fragments of dreams

The mirror shattered

A bullets blasts

Early into eternity

Permissions not asked

Fragments of dreams

 

The dust covers

Mothballs preserve

Laughter it shatters

Dust seeps in

Fragments of dreams

 

The door cracks open

Rust hinges swing

Disturbed solemnity

Is it time to restore

Fragments of dreams

 



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