ES - Heal Thyself first

[doug turnage]

Your Excellency 

             I am proud to have come from the Barony of Elfsea. And most
of all I am proud to hear your truthful wisdom. I support you 110%.   It
is rather simple folks. "More do and less talk"

                                           Airaklee Wolf
                                           Senechal of Glaslyn
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:40:41 -0600 "Vicki Marsh" <xaraxene at home.com>
writes:
>Xene here
>
>,Sfi Mordehai ben Yosef Yitzhak, Aka Matthew G. Saroff wrote:
>
>        The SCA is not dying as a group.
>
>Sfi, you have not sat in on the Baron and Baroness' meetings, where so 
>many
>of our Kingdom's leaders talk about the difficulties in getting people 
>to
>volunteer for jobs and that they cannot get autocrats / stewards for 
>events.
>Our Barony of Elfsea has been in that position, but things have 
>changed
>here, because of what we do differently.
>
> The corporation may be suffering, but
>this is a natural response to incompetence indifference, and 
>corruption.
>These
>are problems inherent in the current board structure, and will not 
>change
>until
>dissatisfaction reaches a level where change is required for the 
>immediate
>survival of the corporation.
>
>Yes, the corporation has problems, I don't deny that.  However, the 
>problems
>that we are seeing in our Kingdom don't come from the top down, they 
>come
>from the bottom up.  The idea that changes in people's personal 
>attitudes
>must be the result of legislation or corporate structure is, in my 
>personal
>opinion, and invalid one.
>
>So many people can complain about how things are run, but they don't 
>do
>anything to better themselves and their groups.  If you want to see
>effective change, it has to be from within.  If you want a TI to be
>different, or to have information of value, then write for it.  Submit
>articles.  Help your local chronicler and apply for that position when 
>it
>comes open.  Help the Kingdom Chronicler, and apply for that position.
>Eventually, you can apply for TI editor.  It may not happen the first 
>time,
>but keep trying.
>
>Twenty years of being involved in the SCA has shown me that only you 
>can
>change yourself and your surroundings.  Only you can make yourself 
>happy.
>If you aren't able to do that, no one, no Board of Directors, and no
>Government can do that for you.
>
>Baroness Xene, OL
>
>
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