[Bards] What can we do to make things better

Lou Burgin lburgin at gt.rr.com
Wed May 2 07:52:56 PDT 2007


Touche, Robin.  I personally have always found it endearing.  AmberLea
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Rudin" <rudin at ev1.net>
To: "Ansteorran Bardic list" <bards at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Bards] What can we do to make things better


> Gerald asked:
>
>> Our community likes to think of itself as a nurturing community that
>> encourages new talent to grow.  We do a fair job of it, but from time to
>> time we go too far and try to nurture that which just ain't there.  A 
>> silk
>> purse / sow's ear dilemma.  And who, among us, wants to be the one to go
>> tell the gentle that they really should consider accordion lessons?  I
>> promise you, I'm not struggling to be first in line.
>>
>> That having been said, how do you tell a person who wants to be a
>> nightingale that they're a crow?  How do you handle someone who wants to
>> be
>> a skald that a stutter of that magnitude is just REALLY hard to get
>> around?
>
> I dunno.  In early Ansteorra we had a particularly bad example.  Somebody
> wanted to become a bard even though he had a clear, recognizable,
> distracting speech impediment.  It was so bad that he couldn't even
> correctly pronounce his own name.
>
> Furthermore, he was a stubborn, egotistical person who could not be
> persuaded, so we were forced to listen to his works.  Nobody was able to 
> rid
> the kingdom of this irredeemable would-be bard.  What a shame that he 
> wasn't
> gently persuaded to sit down so we could hear the good performers instead.
>
> Wobin of Gilwell / Jay Wudin
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bards mailing list
> Bards at lists.ansteorra.org
> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/bards-ansteorra.org 




More information about the Bards mailing list