We had 19 attendees total!  It was a big night for guests, our 7 guests were: Nikolai, Darlene, Wisdom, Nancy, Adriane, Kendra and Michelle.

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Traci led yesterday’s meeting with a theme of Mindfulness.

“Mindfulness means maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens.”

Traci also told the group about a variety of meditations and walked us through the 4 – 7 – 8 breathing technique.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” -Viktor Frankl

Scott’s tip of the week was to be an authentic and genuine speaker.

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha

Mitra’s word of the day was karma

Elizabeth was our grammarian and challenged the group to use strong verbs then reported her 10 favorite at the end of the meeting!

Other Highlights:

Enyonam gave a speech called “If A Tree Could Speak, What Would It Say?”

– It was a great speech about a mango tree from her ancestral home. It was interesting to hear how the tree connects generations of her family. And her brother, Wisdom, was in attendance to witness!

Sarah gave a speech titled “Redefining Success” – It was about some recent struggles she’s had with her business. She managed to use the word of the day twice in her speech!

Scott led Table Topics with a variant of the game Balderdash, where guests received obscure acronyms and had to “sell it” to the group.

Next week will be our open house!