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A Feeble Cry For Help Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute A Feeble Cry For Help

Magic Minute A Feeble Cry For Help By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Sam picked up a feeble cry for help and quickly swam towards it, discerning two boys fighting for their life in the deeper water. They’d drifted way past the sandbanks and fallen off their paddle board. Through his mother’s encouragement Sam was […]

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Keep The Happiness Flowing Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Keep The Happiness Flowing

Magic Minute Keep The Happiness Flowing By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // “Funny how a friendly conversation with a complete stranger can take us somewhere we didn’t expect. I’d just stopped at the lights on my fancy pedal-assist tricycle with a massive 4 L bottle of mineral turpentine in the basket to clean my dirty

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Should Have Listened Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Should Have Listened

Magic Minute Should Have Listened By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Heavy rains the night before had the creek running higher than usual. “Should be all right,” Johan thought. “I’ve crossed this ford before and I know where the rocks are.” Our bike group leader saw it differently. “Better play it safe and walk across,

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You Had to Be There Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute You Had To Be There

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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Happy Song Bird Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Happy Song Bird

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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Wrong Way Better Way Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Wrong Way Better Way

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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Is Santa Real? Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Is Santa Real?

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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Unexplainable Wonder Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Unexplainable Wonder

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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Lumberjack Shirt Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Lumberjack Shirt

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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Mind-Expanding Wonders Laurie Smale Magic Minute

Magic Minute Mind-Expanding Wonders

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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