[Ansteorra] From the Kingdom Seneschal

[Darlene Burns]

Thank you for your unwavering and devoted service to our kingdom. You
inspire me.

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 10:23 PM Kingdom Seneschal via Ansteorra <
ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:

>  With all seasons comes change, and this season brings with it a change in
> the Kingdom Seneschal's office. In consultation with the Society Seneschal,
> the Crown has selected Master Ainar Magnusson to be the new Kingdom
> Seneschal. He will formally step up at Round Table. Congratulations to
> him, and
> thanks to all of the applicants who put in for the position.
>
> I have been blessed to have a wonderful local officer corps and team of
> deputy kingdom seneschals, without whom I would not have been able to do
> this job. To the regionals that I worked with during my tenure - Master
> Avery Shaw, Mistress Colleen O'Kelly, and HL Cadhla Ua Cellachain - thank
> you for your hard work and support. The regions have been in great hands
> with you, and will continue to be in good hands with your successors.
> Centurion Charles the Grey has succeeded Cadhla in the North. Colleen will
> be stepping down in January, and will be succeeded by Mistress Katrine le
> Roux d'Anjou after a transition period. For the Southern Region, Master
> Avery will be stepping down at Round Table, to be replaced by Don Miles
> Ridley.
>
> The kingdom calendar deputy is also retiring after a wonderful period of
> service to the kingdom. Big thanks to Mistress Genevieve de Courtanvaux for
> her efforts, and to Baroness Susanna Nightegale de Caldwell, who has been
> selected to succeed her.
>
> I am grateful to all of the deputies during my tenure for their dedicated
> service, from the waiver secretary, Katerine Bontemps, to the MoC who cares
> for our future, Lady Silvana Corwin, to HL Ahlanna a'Becket, the Social
> Media deputy, to Lady Zahira de la Sara, the Media deputy, and the many
> others who have helped in ways both large and small. I also want to thank
> to Don Martin Malone and Sir William Cameron de Blakstan for their amazing
> service with regards to the kingdom website and the seneschal's webpage
> (especially the Crown Tourney sign-up form); and my boss, Society Seneschal
> Master Antonio Giordano da Sicilia, who provided invaluable guidance and
> support. And last, I would like to thank my touchstone, my communications
> director, she who has kept me sane, my wife, Mistress Sara Penrose. I could
> have not have done this job without her help at every turn.
>
> I have some final thoughts to leave you with - in this day and age, with so
> much turmoil and strife in the world around us, I would ask that we all be
> compassionate and kind to one another. We are all a second family. It is
> only when we try to understand and truly listen to one another that we will
> grow genuinely closer and form the bonds that make the SCA such a special
> and wonderful place. We are all responsible for protecting the SCA and
> making it into a place that is worthy of our dreams and ideals. Fight with
> your last breath to keep the Dream alive.
>
> Lastly, I share with you this quote from Theodore Roosevelt, which has been
> with me throughout my life, provided me direction when I needed it, and
> given me courage when mine began to fail:
>
> “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong
> man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The
> credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is
> marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who
> comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and
> shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great
> enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who
> at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at
> the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his
> place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know
> victory nor defeat.”
>
> Be well, my dearest Ansteorra.
>
> Modius
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-- 
Annes
"Munerius Ultra Sanitas"