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In public speaking we are taught to focus on one person in the audience and focus on them. Another approach is to focus on one person time focusing on them then moving your focus to the next person. Both are ways to tell the forest from the trees. Let's say I'm on my church group's annual...

The interactive map function RULES!

I love your new word - voluntold. Most excellent.

So any lodge that does not have a program prepared (or does not have one of the regulars on this forum who present regularly) has a presentation to read. Any of us who do presentations are free to continue doing so. Nice. Last week I was at a Stated meeting with two presentations because one...

Being on-line my reaction to that is "You never heard of the Internet"? It is trivial to start at the UGLE website and move from there along the chain of regular and recognized jurisdictions and then to the lodge locator. An agreement delayed is an agreement denied. It's trivial to figure out...

For what's in a degree I'm all for keeping it a surprise. For your friend knowing you're in his new lodge it matters less. One friend I recommended him into a lodge near his home. He knew I was going to be at his first. I wasn't at his second. For his third I ducked in when he would not...

A couple of months ago when I went to the MWPHGLofTX web page there was a lodge locator off the "GRAND LODGE INFORMATION" menu. Now there is a district locator that points to the DDGMs. Something that is true in every jurisdiction I have visited - Many DDGMs are unresponsive to email and under...

Single affiliation jurisdictions normally only restrict their members to a single lodge that confers degrees. As lodges of research are not authorized to confer degrees they are allowed as an exception to the rule. It's interesting to find a jurisdiction so strict they don't even allow that...

Not all jurisdictions require the MM proficiency so there might not be any instructors in that. One of my jurisdictions considers it mandatory. One only requires it for elected officers but waives the requirement for officers who are current in their office ritual). One has it optional so...

The image is too pixelated to be certain but when I zoomed in the arc looks much more like a scimitar than like a quadrant. The blur below it could be either a sphinx or a double headed eagle but given the scimitar I'll go with a variation on a Shrine emblem surrounded by compasses.

Fun variations jurisdiction to jurisdiction. GLofCA thinks it's a conflict of interest to pay the Treasurer so it is forbidden in the GL bylaws. The Tiler is a paid position in California but the pay is so low it does not cover the gas to get to and from lodge. I read it in the lodge bylaws...

In the early days of the US republic guys met in the summer between planting and harvesting. They drilled as militia units. Men knew their rank in the militia. Read the books about Lewis and Clark - They were Captains in the regular Army (a story of its own) and Generals in the militia. I...

In one of my lodges (Illinois) the tradition is the outgoing PM serves as tiler. I was in the east two years in a row in that lodge so I really needed to quiet by the time my "out"stallation was scheduled. One of my lodges (Texas) appoints an active brother not currently willing to go into...

Lodges of research do not confer degrees so you already have to be a MM to petition. In jurisdictions that only allow a brother to be a member of exactly one blue lodge, there's no need to demit from your local lodge to become a member. In jurisdictions that do allow a brother to be a member...

More than one of the selections overlap in this survey. I tried to select the most general one - Get the new brother involved in some activity, any activity. You'll notice that Stated meetings usually have a lot of PMs in attendance. We're the ones who got active by going through the line...

In the US about a century ago there was a consensus decision to switch from small lodges to large lodges. I understand the financial reasoning - A large lodge can afford a much larger nice building. Lodges went from meeting upstairs from the general store to meeting in a nice building at the...

Gotta love spell checker mistakes like that. Note that calipers calibrate and they are comparable with compasses.

In the US a Valley tends to be a group of bodies that meet together. Taken together they cover degrees 4-32. How the degrees are divided up by body and the exact names of the bodies is different in the Northern and Southern jurisdiction but the pattern is the same. Each body gets its own...

Their web site is in my previous post. It gives their address and meeting schedule.

It's easy to recommend your own lodge so I can point you to Victory 1160. We meet in the building behind the Shrine center near the 1604 north. Several lodges meet there. The most active lodge near your Seaworld location would be Helotes lodge. http://mwsa39.albertpikedemolay.org/ Use the...