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QUARTER NOTE

Importance of Being Thankful

David Freedman, PM2

Over the course of my nine years in Babble-On I’m thankful for my family. This year will

Toastmasters, I created two “traditions” that be the first time in a long while that I won’t be
we’ve managed to maintain in our Club. The first able to spend time with my family since we’re
tradition started when I took on the role of the all celebrating in different places this year, but I
Timer and came up with the saying, “We like to keep them in my heart always.

start on time, end on time, and have a good time.” I’m thankful for my hobbies, namely, video
Several people in my Club have used that quote games and books, both of which I have scads
ever since, and it always adds a touch of humor of. Because frankly, it’s nice to come home to
to the role of the Timer since time is crucial in something that you enjoy, especially when you’re

everything we do. hard at work (or in my case, working hard to find
The second tradition happened almost a job), and it’s also nice to lose yourself in another
accidentally. Somehow, without intending to, world when it’s absolutely necessary.
I became the Toastmaster for many of our I’m thankful that my Toastmasters Clubs

Thanksgiving meetings. Rather than reciting the are still active. Quite a few Clubs have shuttered
origin of Thanksgiving, my goal was to simply over the past couple of years, no thanks to the
ask each member and guest present what they pandemic, so it’s nice to know that I have two
were most thankful for. Again, to keep us on track Clubs that I can come home to – three, if we can

and within the meeting time limit, I instructed get our debate Club, Virtual Virtuosos, accredited
them to do so in one to two sentences. Taking in the next year.
my own advice, I thought I’d share a few things I’m thankful for my health. I grew up with
I’m thankful for in bite-sized bullet points: a number of disabilities, and one of the things

I’m thankful that we’re not in isolation that keeps me motivated to maintain my health
anymore. It’s been well over a year since the is constant exercise, either by going to the gym
Covid-19 vaccines came out, but I’ll never take for five days a week or walking everywhere.
granted the value of being in large groups again. I’m thankful for having a good sense of

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