[Northkeep] Fair warning to the Community

[Chuck Kaun]

Please stop referring to us as a "community".  the term may be 
socialogically legitimate, but I consider that term synonymous with 
"retirement community".

I'm too young for that.

I think of Northkeep and the SCA on the whole as "a successful social 
experiment with a high degree of longevity"

......or "a complex group of dreamers who found each other in a goal to seek 
a better state of existence through imagination and creative re-enactment"


Cearl, whose head is beginning to hurt



>From: "Marc Carlson" <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at ansteorra.org>
>To: northkeep at ansteorra.org
>Subject: RE: [Northkeep] Fair warning to the Community
>Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:36:46 -0600
>
>>From: "Keith Duke" <KDUKE at fwmurphy.com>
>>Well, obviously you just need to pick which community you are talking
>>about if you're concerned about too much touchie-feelie... As any odd
>>collection of people with a specific bias, preference or other
>>commonality is unerringly referred to in the media these days as a
>>"community"...
>
>A number of years ago, I had a person explaining to me why I should pay 
>more attention to the SCA as my community since "they're the people who are 
>most likely to go to your funeral when you die.", which put it into pretty 
>succinct terms for me :)   Since I consider "Northkeep" to be a community, 
>that's pretty much what I'd be focused on regarding THIS list :)
>
>Although when it's at its best, Northkeep is effectively a small town, 
>there ARE times when it just feels like a bedroom community.  But that's as 
>much my fault as anything else -- since you generally get out of it what 
>you are willing to put into it (with some notable exceptions).
>
>>But, that's just my perspective, which - as has been noted many times -
>>is usually about 90 degrees off from what everyone else sees... (Thus
>>while virtually everyone else will have a "long day" from time to time,
>>I have *wide* days, and occasionally either deep or tall days...Those
>>are bad...)
>
>Yes, but we love you anyway.
>
>M/D
>
>
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