Magic Minute You Had To Be There By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Some of our memories aren’t that big a deal now, but at the time they were. It was around 1957 in grade 4 in old Dixon’s Class; a dour old Scotsman who found it hard to see the funny side of anything. […]
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Magic Minute Happy Song Bird By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever been judged out of context? Well, with these Magic Minute videos I soon learned that my speaking voice needed a bit of a tuneup before each event. And the best way to do this was to sing a couple of songs like: “Ramblin’
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Magic Minute Wrong Way Better Way By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // No matter what you’re doing, there’s always a more effective way of approaching it, even shovelling dirt! I’d just joined a gang of laborers preparing formwork for footpaths and got straight into madly shovelling the dirt to clear the way and show ’em
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Magic Minute Is Santa Real? By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // A concerned 9-year-old Cyndy came home from school and said to her grandma, “Sally told me that Santa isn’t real.” Her grandmother explained that the sharing of Christmas is very real and Santa’s goodwill represents this. But not wholly convinced, Cyndy did what any
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Magic Minute Unexplainable Wonder By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever experienced something wonderful that defies explanation? Well, the first part of it happened on a nice summer’s day when I stumbled across the resting place of Lachlan Macquarie, Australia’s fifth Colonial Governor from 1810 to 1821, among the woodlands on the Scottish Isle of
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Magic Minute Lumberjack Shirt By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I just stepped down from the platform when a youngish guy in a lumberjack shirt and a peak cap came over and said, “I really enjoyed your talk… What got you into this subject of speaking fear?” I shared the short version of my early
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Magic Minute Mind-Expanding Wonders By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I can’t remember my mother ever reading us kids a story, so we had little appreciation of the wonders between the pages of a book. But I did catch a glimpse of these wonders in grade three where I’d seek out a well-worn book about
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Magic Minute Walking Tall By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Julie was terribly self-conscious of her height after being taunted by cruel kids at school for years. Even in her 20s she was still walking in a ‘special way’ to make herself look shorter to be like typical people. So boyfriends were scarce and didn’t
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Magic Minute The Great Camel Ride By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // At our Primary School Twilight Fair, I talk my tentative 8-year-old daughter into an exciting camel ride around the school oval to expand her knowledge and experiences of the world. “They’re very friendly and the man will lead you,” I said to shore
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Magic Minute Magic Mountain By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // When I first heard the term Tower Hill I thought, “Sounds pretty mundane and ordinary to me!” But on descending into the Tower Hill National Park I found myself at the bottom of a massive crater of an extinct volcano, 4 km wide with breathtaking
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