ES - Heal Thyself first
doug turnage
wolf77777 at juno.com
Wed May 26 04:21:15 PDT 1999
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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