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FIELD NOTES
OLD BURDENS,
NEW INSIGHTS
Lee Coyne, ATMS
Each Toastmaster maintains a varied and valuable past. Some parts
inevitably can haunt us yearlong. Not simply an artifact of Halloween
season.
Let us imagine that we carry forth a backpack. Within it is an
assorted group of heavy stones. These are symbols for the setbacks
of life that created major havoc. We can go back many years to fetch
these archaic stones and most likely will.
Some may be with family and others with friends. A few can revolve
around negative school experiences that we wish never took place.
An element of real trauma leaves its imprint.
Our first mission is to identify the said setbacks. What happened
back then and why? The second part is assigning a personal rating.
We create that lineup of lightest to heaviest. It can well constitute the
first time ever that we did a fullscale comparison.
That can assemble the larger picture on burdens that slow life's
journey. We have denied such a useful tool up to now. Finally we
head toward removal these onerous stones one at a time.
Where shall we begin?
That quandary needs a cure!
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