<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 26, 2006, at 10:24 PM, Gerald Norris wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">My original post that started all of this asked if we in the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">performance/bardic community felt themselves well used...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space">... </SPAN>Do I see enough useage?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>At the end of the day, have I had</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a chance to get the performance bug out of my system for a bit?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The usual</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">answer is "yes".<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I wanted to find out if everyone else gets to "play"</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">enough or not.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There are venues at events, if we just take the effort to create them ... <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">... </FONT>we can have</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">performance in the many venues an event provides; music at the lists, either</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">played or sung.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Stories between rounds in a tourney, music during feast,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">singing afterwards, circles and fire-walkers and music that spins through</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the air as the skald weaves her words in the glowing embers of torchlight or</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">campfire.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Very, very well said, Gerald; and the parts I snipped about not letting any focus on a college (or whatever) distract us from a focus on performing, and on encouraging others to perform.[1]</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That was a rather longish paragraph.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Must be time to stop.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In service to the dream with a song in my heart, I am,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">HL Gerald of Leesville</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">A bard of Stargate<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>I read recently that Ernest Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. :-)<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael Silverhands</DIV><DIV>pot</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[1] Yes, Robin. I know. I heard your argument that a college will achieve that. You're very convincing, and I have nothing against that. I just want to sew caution that the means doesn't become the end. I also would prefer that we don't repeat the mistakes of history. Let's make all new ones, if we must make any. :-)</DIV></BODY></HTML>