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This anthology is based on my speeches delivered as a Toastmaster over my two decades. Like most other Toastmaster speeches, these have only been heard once at various Toastmasters' clubs.
Every speech made by a Toastmaster is a winner because it is part of his/her progression on the Toastmasters' 'Pathways' in developing the unique and amazing skill of human communication. Following are 28 stories from my speeches, as one club member from over 270,000 members worldwide in 148 countries.
This is just a miniscule fraction of the millions of stories told and being told by Toastmasters worldwide. Your challenge however, is for you to also record the greatest of these stories - your own stories.
In 1960s Australia, Charlotte travels from the city of Brisbane in Queensland to visit her uncle’s farm in the New England Tablelands in New South Wales for her school holidays.
Curiosity and the elements trap Charlotte and her cousin Charlie at the bottom of a waterfall. Will Charlie's bush survival skills and Charlotte's instinctive animal understanding be enough to survive the challenges they encounter in this remote yet magical gorge; challenges that have long since disappeared in the world above.
If either survive, what is the consequence of them telling the whole truth about their experiences in the gorge?
For those living in the sixties, those still young today, and those in between, this story rekindles the memory of life outside the cities during 1960s Australia.