[Ansteorra] Getting people confortable with the SCA

[Ronda Melendez]

I definitely remember and highly respect Duchess Willow.  When I was at 
Jason and Saerid's coronation to present them with gifts and the good wishes 
of their royal cousins of Atlantia, she made me laugh and feel at home by 
singing me what I think was her ducky song.  I will never forget that.  
Bless you, you wonderful lady!



In Service to the Dream,
Muriel filia Donaldi de Skia
Barony of Bryn-Gwlad
Fledgling of House FalconRose
Ambassador to Atlantia
Member of Academy of St. Gabriel



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>From: "Richard Morgan" <rmorgan at satx.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." 
><ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Getting people confortable with the SCA
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:56:31 -0500
>
>My Dear Duchess Willow,
>
>     As we discussed many, many, many, years ago when you were so kindly
>explaining to me that my persona stops where your persona begins, and that 
>I
>should not put someone in a position where their persona could not play
>because of my persona's actions. By the way I am still working on that and
>thanks for postponing my execution. You wisely told me that as we become
>more experienced in the SCA it takes a ever increasing amount of
>authenticity to take us to that place where it all seems real and you get
>that chill of being there. It is easy at our first events we don't notice
>the ice chests and the cars as much, but as we become more experienced,
>those incongruities disturb us more and more. This is what drives the SCA 
>in
>many ways, it is why as the years go by we have become more and more
>historically accurate. As I  look back over the years that we have played,
>what we once thought was so period we now find laughable. I think that we
>need to explain this to newcomers when we explain the SCA to them. Us
>old-timers need to also keep in mind that we were not always as authentic 
>as
>we think we are today, nor as we will hopefully be tomorrow.
>
>
>In humble service,
>
>Sir Richard ap Morgan
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <willowdewisp at juno.com>
>To: <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:18 PM
>Subject: [Ansteorra] Getting people confortable with the SCA
>
>
> > ..I think our first goal is to help people be
> > comfortable with what we do...then worry about how "period" (or accurate
> > as
> > possible with modern materials to be more precise) they become.
> >
> > This is certainly a pearl of wisdom. We need to help newcomer get use to
> > the courtesies and customs of our kingdom. It is very important that we 
>as
> > a group become user friendly. Some people approach this by dropping the
> > things that make the magic but this is mistake. Playing the game and
> > living the dream and the studying history are the things that make us
> > different form other groups. I was raised in the Old South so our way of
> > doing things didn't seem strange. Also I was here from A.S. 3 so I
> > influenced many of our customs, but today that kind of formality is very
> > strange, We need to show people it isn't that hard and all right to make
> > mistakes. Also please help people get over their peer fear. It is lonely
> > when everyone stands 10 feet away.
> > Willow de Wisp
> >
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