[Ansteorra] History

[DonnelShaw at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/4/2008 10:03:31 PM Central Daylight Time,  
sueorintx at hotmail.com writes:

Milady,  

You are making a very large assumption that all newcomers want to have  the 
same experiences that you and others like Her Grace had when you started  with 
the SCA years ago. Many of the newcomers are looking for something else.  In 
the group that I hang out with, I am a relative newcomer. I have just  
celebrated my sixth anniversary of playing with the SCA. I find plenty of  magic in 
the SCA now. New people these days have much different backgrounds  and 
experiences from those who began in the SCA when it was in its infancy and  childhood. 
Some may still be looking for the same kind of experience you  recall, but 
many are not. 

It is far more important to help our  newcomers find their own dream and what 
will meet their desires and needs  within in the SCA than it is to try to 
make them fit in a mold that is twenty  or more years old. Should you share your 
dream with a newcomer and they find  it appealing, fine, but do not paint all 
newcomers with the same brush. Their  dreams share different foci than yours 
or mine. It is for them to discover it,  not be molded to it.

Living the dream....my own dream,

Lady  Lyneya de Grey

Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher  Ulrich



I am sorry I will have to disagree. When we come to the SCA we are  all 
looking for a place that is enjoyable and that we can be with people we  enjoy 
their company doing something we enjoy. That was true 26 years ago and it  is true 
now. How we do that may have changed. Everything from the old days was  not 
perfect and everything now is not perfect either. But there is good in both.  
In my younger days I would have never bought linen because of the price. We 
were  mainly all broke. But as my body has aged and I have a little more now then 
then  my cloth of choice has changed. It does not make one better than the 
other just  than things have changed. 
 
 HL  Donnel 

Faith is believing what the eyes cannot see. ~~~~Michael of  Langley





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