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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kat and
Maggie, I too found Sir Randall’s fire by the lilting of your songs.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I had just finished walking around the
entire encampment hearing song and drums, heralding an upcoming fire-dancers exhibition
(that was both well done and well received), and found your company most
entertaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I heard songs of
battle and war that I must have heard at every event I have attended over these
last two years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But at Sir Randall’s’
campfire, I was drawn by songs and tales I have not heard at all.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Songs from the 80’s written and sung by
a Duke who joined us later (I now know what the shishie-poke is), songs of elves,
written and sung by a most beautiful one, tales of bravery told by a Knight and
a Master at Arms, and songs of appreciation, sung by all there.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have
seen on this list a post (made after I embarked on my journey to join the
3Kings) where Ivo wants a concrete </span></font></span><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>statement</span></font><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> about </span></font></span><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>"this is what the college will do
that is not being done".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I do
not know how this has been answered as yet, so please bear with me as I give it
a try.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What this college idea will
do that is not being done now is, in my opinion, … </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in' type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4;tab-stops:list .5in'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Collect songs and disperse them unto the known world to
be both heard and not forgotten.</span></font><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;
mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in' type=circle>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level2 lfo4;tab-stops:list 1.0in'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>That last night of 3Kings, the discussion turned to
some well-known facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Such
as;</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in' type=square>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level3 lfo4;tab-stops:list 1.5in'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>Depending on memory and word of mouth to pass along
songs and stories from one herald to the next means inevitable errors
and changes – some by accident and some by design – so that singing a well-known
piece at a multi-kingdom event will have, at best, mixed results.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l2 level3 lfo4;tab-stops:list 1.5in'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>This seasons favorites will be all but forgotten in
just a few short years, and even the author can have trouble recalling them
later on, when faced with remembering the large amount of currently
performed pieces that need to be remembered to continue to be an
effective entertainer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Compound that with the filks we sometimes write and you have one
heck of a lot of grits to sort thru to find that one pearl you are
wishing to perform.</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo4;tab-stops:list 1.0in'><span
class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Give
Ansteorran Heralds a focal point.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></li>
<ul style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in' type=square>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l2 level3 lfo4;tab-stops:
list 1.5in'><span class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As
it is now, we only measure ourselves (and better ourselves) thru public
performances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Why not make
it possible for us to learn from each other without having to be in
front of the public to do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Create an environment where we have what amounts to a Bardic Symposium?<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Do we need to be on our own?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></li>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l2 level2 lfo4;tab-stops:list 1.0in'><span
class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Then
call it a Community instead of a College, a Symposium instead of a
retreat or training. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Heralds
have the CoH to help bind them together and make the rules we heralds NEED
to operate consistently throughout the Knowne World.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Heralds also have the </span></font></span><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Known
World Heraldic & Scribal Symposium to help them disseminate all that
knowledge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><span
class=EmailStyle15><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>As
Bards, we do not need that level of consistency and degree of training (or
do we?), but I feel we do need that level of community.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How do we know a bard except by
their performing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And is
that the time to ask them about the worlds they create in verse?<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>To share their songs with the new
member who wants to become a bard?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Again, No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But having
a centralized way to collect and disperse songs and tales both new and
old, to train bards up from a person who loves to sing but has a tin ear
to a bard who knows what they can sing and add stories the populous wants
to hear to his repertoire. <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Would thin not be a service we can perform for not only
our audience?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But also our
Shire, Barony, Kingdom and the entire Knowne World?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span class=EmailStyle15><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span class=EmailStyle15><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We could continue as we are knowing we are doing our
own personal best, and everything will continue onward into the future, each of
us driving on our own up the stream of time without anyone ever knowing we had
been so close to what could have been a renaissance event for this
community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I feel we will not do
it at all without some form of organization, someone or some many who will step
up to the wheel of the greater good and help direct us into the future.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span class=EmailStyle15><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span class=EmailStyle15><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ultimately, it is not any one of us that will make
this possible, but every one of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I know that some will prefer to be alone in their quest for what they
perceive as the perfect art form for their performance style.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And they are right to do so.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>But some, like myself, like to know
they are a part of a greater thing, or a thing becoming greater with each
breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And we are right to do so.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That is why there is no easy answer to
this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOTEXTLIST \s "E-mail
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