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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Laundry list of things here...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alden, please note that a B&/orB gave out those
pearls. Shires do not, by definition, have landeds. So,
once again, we are back where we started.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hilary, the Ant got replaced with a one time
Portcullis.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Concerning delayed AoAs or any award for that
matter...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have chased people down to get them the award
that I want them to have and I have enlisted the help of people whose voices
will be heard. The phrase, "you will be coming to court, right?" was
followed closely with, "Here, oh look, court is about to start, let's
go."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know that people get overlooked. I have a
friend that waited 12 years and three or four kingdoms for his. It
happens. All I can say to that is better late than early. I would
much rather have someone say, "about time!" than "Huh? you have to be
kidding me. She got that?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lastly, and this is the hard part to say and
understand on email so bear with me. If a person works locally for 20
years then chances are they do it because they chose to and they like it and the
rewards of service. They are respected for their knowlege and wealth of
stories of the old days, they are competent and trusted, and they carry a
special place in the heart and soul of the group. After 20 years, they
know the score. And chances are that they hear all of the thank yous loud
and clear. If they didn't, I daresay they wouldn't be back.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>With the advent of email, we have lost the art of
letter writing. A well-written, nicely phrased and perhaps decorated
letter complete with a seal (hey, here's another way for us to show off some
cool medieval stuff) could go do much for a person.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Medb</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=prudencecurious@netscape.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=housedragonstar@earthlink.net
href="mailto:housedragonstar@earthlink.net">housedragonstar@earthlink.net</A>
; <A title=heralds@ansteorra.org
href="mailto:heralds@ansteorra.org">heralds@ansteorra.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 14, 2005 2:17
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ANSTHRLD] Shires and Thank
Yous</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> My question here goes deeper...why would you
want to recoginize someone for service to their local group and _not_ put them
in for an AoA? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Reason 1: Okay, using myself as an example.
It took seven years to get an AOA. After moving to my new shire (after
being in for three years), they started writing me in for an AOA
after another two years. This is what people told me. But for
one reason or another (the royals that reign didn't travel, the letter got
lost, all the courts were filled to the max in time, there were no royal
progresses (RP) nearby that reign, autocrated the RP and no one had
told the crown that particular reign I didn't have an AOA), it took an
additional two years to get me and the Crown and a scroll in the same place at
the same time. It would have been nice if the local group had had a
means of saying thank you a little more publicly and obviously then just -
thanks in a meeting. And remember this was with writing people in and
having good word fame. Sometimes life just doesn't work
out.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Reason 2: The person has an AOA and continues to
do work only at the local level - for decades. How do you say thank you
for that level of service? (Include maybe a non-stellar personality that
a friend of mine has who has been for over 20 years as a local officer -
peerage is out-of-the-question.) So people talk about how to say thank
you that gets through someone's thick skull.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Now I will say that my favorite two scrolls were thank
yous given to me. I value them more than the awards scrolls. One
was for a weekend demo (10,000 person) I drove five hours to participate
in. A group for my shire just said "lets go" and five of us arrived and
helped out - a lot. They gave magic markers to a scribe and the result
is now framed on my wall. The other is from all the fencers of my
old kingdom for my service to them. Sometimes when burn-out occurs,
I look at those two scrolls and go - oh, yeah, someone likes and respects
me. These make a huge difference.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ever a Servant,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Prudence the Curious</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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