[Northkeep] Fair warning to the Community

[Miriam Cook]

"Every child needs a village." It just so happens that
my children have a Viking village!

I agree (I think that he was saying this) with Marc,
if a member of Northkeep wants to take the sense of
community home with him from our meetings, practices,
events, etc, it is definitely possible. I for one DO
believe that the SCA in general, and Northkeep
specifically, is one of the two community circles I
live within. And it is within that feeling of
community where I am most comfortable, a sensation
that is the driving factor for my remaining.

I could ramble on about the idea of community or the
lack there of in modern society, what I believe to be
the failure of the American culture, but this is
obviously not the correct forum for such discussion.
If you'd like to take the bate and discuss it more
drop me a line and we can make a date for coffee!

Zahava

--- Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >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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