[Ansteorra] How to start things (was Which brings us to...)

[L T]

Though I'm not Her Grace...

What I have found is that there is an ebb and flow to things in the
SCA. To get something started, sometimes it takes many years of
periodically introducing things (like every 6 months) to get the timing
right were the people who are interested are able to participate...
and it takes persistance...to get people used to an idea you can't
decide if it is the "time" for it by just one meeting...you need to
give it at least 6 months...sometimes things "just come together" but
usually its because of long planning an preporation...

Lorraine DeerSlayer

who's been discouraged more than once....



>
> If you will pardon my candidness, this doesn't exactly encourage someone to
> organize anything, your Grace. I have to admit, I'm feeling extremely
> frustrated... and it leads me to wonder if it's worth my time to try to do
> anything new if this is the result. I do realize this is a bad attitude, but
> still... perhaps this is the feeling shared by others.
>
> Any advice on how to combat this?
>
> Elysia
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan [mailto:catmafia at swbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:09 PM
> To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Which brings us to...
>
>
>
> >I've several different theories from "people are just too busy nowadays"
> >to the loss-of-community-mindedness theories.  I suppose it's anyone's
> >guess and even the "experts" don't agree.
> >
> >--Perronnelle
>
> Other aspects of it have to do with the 'time saving modern convieniences'
> that seem to create more work.  Also looking at the number of different
> things people commit to that take up their time, as well as the number of
> activities competing for ones time.  The author of 'Ishmael' addresses many
> of these points in his works.  Thus the topic a bit ago about there being
> 'too many events'.
>
> We were recently trying to come up with a time to hold a revel locally and
> it was nigh on impossible to find a weekend that didn't compete with
> something else.  The only times when we were able to find gaps in the
> schedule in the region were filled in by wars in other kingdoms.
>
> Susan
>
>
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