Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Too many events?

[J.G. Bretz]

> it sounds like a good Idea but Kingdom Eisteddfod happens once a year and
is
> up to the outgoing bard on were and when it is held. coronation happens
> twice a year and has a set dates. how would we combine them?
>
>
> Lady Simone Maurian ui' Dunlaingh
> simone at elfsea.net

I was not picking on Eisteddfod particularly...it was illustrative to the
point, not a request or suggestion.

I think the point was missed. We can have anything we want in conjunction
with anything else.

Why couldn't we have Eisteddfod at Summer Coronation and something else in
the Winter?   Why couldn't we have two Eisteddfods?  We certainly have two
crowns a year.  Where is it written in the laws of the Gods that the
outgoing bard had to decide where to have it and when?  What happens if he
(or she) gets hit by a coach and is crushed on his way to Middleford?
Would we never see the bardic arts in this Kingdom hailed again!?  "Dang I
wish we could have Eisteddfod again; it is a shame that Ralph the Bard was
hit by a coach."

I really don't intend to mock...just to take something to an absurd point to
make us think.

Traditions are a wonderful thing...

I get chills when I see the sword of state handed to the Lions at
Coronation, knowing that they will protect it and keep it safe.

 I shed a small tear when a toast is made to absent friends, for those were
my friends and they should not be forgotten.

I feel brave when the King speaks of war and the great deeds to be done in
the name of the Black Star, against the aggressors to the East.

But tradition that binds the heart, mind, senses and creative will....???

Perhaps we need to decide why we do some of the things we do, and if they
are really the best for our groups and the Kingdom.  Perhaps having  the
15th annual Sword Stomp Double Elimination Uber Tournament just because we
have always had it, needs to be rethought.
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