[Namron] Enara - Sigh...

Lord Pooky lord_pooky at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 13 10:26:47 PST 2004


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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:55:42 -0800 (PST)
>From: Lea <l_j_frizzell at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Namron] Re: Newbies and other issues
>To: namron at ansteorra.org
>Message-ID: <20041211055542.20295.qmail at web13124.mail.yahoo.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>Mi'lords and ladies,
>
>As an outsider looking in, wanting so badly to be part of the family, I'm 
>seeing things that I honestly feel help or places where slight changes 
>would make all the difference and I am being told that won't work and to 
>"read the books" or "jump right in."  Well, I've read the books and I've 
>been trying to "jump right in" or at least wade in.  I've been working 
>steadily to get my gear together and learn the rules so that I can play, 
>but it feels like every step forward I take, somehow I lose three.  I don't 
>wish to hurt anyone's feelings, nor am I pointing fingers, but I have 
>volunteered to help and can't get answers as to how and when.  I've stood 
>by patiently and courteously waiting for conversations to stop so that I 
>can ask various "persons in charge" how I can participate, but I can't even 
>get a look acknowleging I'm there, much less the courtesy of an audience.  
>I know people are standing up and reporting and I get the general idea, but 
>how it all fits together is still !
>  something
>  of a mystery.  I've bought the books and read them, I've asked questions. 
>  I've explored options.  I read these email postings every single day 
>hoping to get a grip on things.  I feel like a baptist in a catholic 
>service.  I know how to pray and pray enthusiastically, but damned if I can 
>figure out when to sit, stand or kneel.  Dear people, I have talents I 
>could have contributed had the internal squabbles stopped long enough for 
>the group to recognise that some people don't have extroverted natures but 
>are still quietly valuable all the same. Yall need to quit fussing with 
>each other like cats tied in a wet bag and treat each other with respect, 
>remembering that every opinion has value and every member is a gift to the 
>barony.  You don't have to all agree, but you do have to respect every 
>individual's right to disagree.  Certainly no one is perfect, where's the 
>fun in that, nor do we all think alike.  But if someone is making a 
>mistake, it appears to me that at least that !
>  person is
>  out there participating.  Correct the behavior but foster the enthusiasm. 
>  I shudder to think how boring it would be to sit around a meeting nodding 
>at each other in perfect accord.  Nor can we all be loveable rascals like 
>Matthias or Pooky.  I don't know if it's because it's late and I'm tired or 
>I have finally reached my level of saturation, but I find that I just don't 
>even want to try anymore.  I truly am beginning to feel like I'm too stupid 
>to get it.  I didn't sign on for that, I only have so much free time to 
>spend on myself and joining the SCA was suppose to be fun.  I am giving the 
>books that I have to Matthias to bring to populace in hopes that the barony 
>will find them to be of some use.  To those folks who were kind enough to 
>say hi, thanks so much.  I wish I could have made you my friends.  Matt and 
>Chris, thanks for being my sponsers.  May God bless and keep all of Namron 
>and Skarrgard in his hands and heart.
>
>Fare thee well,
>
>Enara
>
>
>
IN RESPONCE TO THIS:

Ah well, there goes someone I will spend the rest of MY life wishing I could 
have gotten to know better..... Seriously.  Its the missed opportunities to 
be helpful that embed into MY Psyche.  But wait! I still have this message 
... this little line on top with an email adress.  Maybe I can get in touch 
with (assumedly>) her and see if one wonderful person can be brought back to 
~The Dream~.

When one person leaves us ~THE DREAM~ becomes a little bit dimmer.

Ohhhhh....(big sigh) It just kills ME in MY Heart to think I haven't found 
the way to incorperate the best of people and to show people the best that 
we have, over the last 2.5 decades.
I am feeling mighty lazy,
I am feeling that I have been mighty unempathetic,
I am feeling mighty waistful with MY time,
I am feeling I should do a hell of a lot more.

Pook

p.s. It only hurts because I care.  And that leaves ME 2 options Deal or 
Disolve with it.





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