[Ansteorra] Group Status Changes

[Chelsea Durham]

I don't come out of my shell often and post publically on the kingdom list, but this is a big concern of mine, so I'll bite. 

Having "grown up" in the Western Region (yes, it's still the Western Region. It's only been dissolved on paper) the people there are more concerned with The Dream, rather than the politics that actually govern it. I can see both sides of the argument: Don Pieter's side of keeping up with paperwork, and Baroness AmaRyah's side of "it is only a game." 
Storytime: 
Gulf War this past year, I rode out with a friend of mine. I'm not going to name names. We arrived on site late. I was dead set on putting up my tent. The friend of mine greeted their significant other, and we started to unload. Long story short, my friend's SO was insistent on them going to a party. My friend, in the best interest of their self, gave in to said SO, and left me with my tent partially up. Wouldn't have been so bad if they'd gone and gotten me help. I was livid, and proverbial knives hurt when they're in your back. I marched over to the WEstern Region encampment, and sure as the sun shines, Baron Gavin was still up, as were a select few other people. HE Gavin came over to where my tent was in another encampment, and helped me with my tent. They also loaned me a flashlight as my friend's SO and I got into a rather heated debate and I decided to not rely on my friend as much. The group I camped with was inviting, but it wasn't nearly as nice and homey as the Western Region encampment. I will never again camp with the group I camped with at that Gulf War. I will always... always always, ALWAYS camp with the Western Region people. They've not lost sight of the dream. They are not torn in their friendships because one group of people doesn't like another. They are my home. There's never been a time I was ever turned away from a WEstern Region camp. I've never been apprehensive to enter into one of their encampments, or indeed, their homes. (well perhaps at first because I can be shy) However, in other areas of Ansteorra, I've been apprehensive to even talk to some people. I've felt unwelcome in other parts. If you want hospitality, go to the Western Region. If you want hostility, go somewhere else. 

-Lady Grainne Kathleen NicPadraig MacDaniel 
None is deceived but he who trusts too much.
 

> From: estarkey at camalott.com
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:03:52 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group Status Changes
> 
> bitter?  nope.  unwilling to put up with bs.  i worked in a field for 20 
> years that mistakes just left pink mist, and the sca is not even close to 
> needing zero tolerance.   i did this for fun, not for life and death.  it's 
> not a lifestyle.  it is only a game.
> AmaRyah
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <DonPieter at aol.com>
> To: <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 11:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Group Status Changes
> 
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 7/13/2008 10:43:20 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> > estarkey at camalott.com writes:
> >
> <snip>
> 
> > I hate to ask this but bitter much? I have a hard time believing that 
> > being
> > asked to make sure that as officers that you have all your ducks in a row 
> > for
> > 3  years is asking to much. Perhaps it is because I work in a field that 
> > has a
> > zero  tolerance for any mistakes. In my field a mistake kills a patient, 
> > in
> > this case  a mistake kills a group. The mistake I see being made here is 
> > not
> > trying. Those  that rather give up and cry evil big bully foul without 
> > even
> > trying to do the  right thing shows no respect to oneself, ones group, or 
> > ones
> > love of this game.  It is better to have loved and lost then to never have 
> > loved
> > at all it has been  said. Also nothing ventured nothing gained. Nothing is
> > being ventured so noting  is being gained, only lost. I am sorry that it 
> > will now
> > take people in Abilene  who wish to find the SCA to do an internet search 
> > and
> > find us in a town down the  road and not there. But those people in the
> > future who have to find us in  different places, who have to travel to 
> > join in at
> > events, perhaps they will  rebuild the group there and will be told going 
> > into
> > it that as a NEW group they  will be required to learn their jobs as 
> > officers
> > and make no mistakes so that  one day THEY will be able to spread the 
> > dream of
> > the SCA to the local masses and  learn from the mistakes of those that 
> > gave
> > up and drifted away.
> >
> > Don Pieter Rausch
> > SoS
> >
> >
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