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GLEANINGS FROM THE GROVE

boost your program and meeting up a notch and take a break for the holidays, perhaps this is the
have fun doing it too. year that you shine and excel with a thematic

We have all heard of Zoom fatigue and the meeting or two!
current trend of lessening the number of online Hence, dear readers, I await the day when we
meetings. Remember when we first started can be pirates. We cannot walk the plank online
Zooming Toastmasters? We were online night or use our cutlasses with a flourish and a clash of

and day—two or three meetings at a time in metal but my eyepatches and my favorite Argyle
addition to work-related meetings. socks are close at hand for my day of glory rich
Now that Zoom meetings are considered “old with the treasure of fun and fellowship.
hat,” we need to liven things up a bit. Thus, fellow Come to think about it, you still have time

Toastmasters, I challenge you and your club to to create your own SPOOKTACULAR meeting
consider hosting a quarterly thematic meeting. this month. It may not take a ghost of a chance
Break out of the box—color outside the lines. We to put on a thematic meeting, but it would be to
have the perfect prospect of two to three thematic die for! Have a heart (or organ of your choice)

meetings in the next two months. We have fellow Toastmasters.
Veterans Day in early November, Thanksgiving Oh, my. The clock just struck midnight. Got
in late November, and several festive celebrations to fly!
in the month of December. While many clubs

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