[Northkeep] Keeping the Dream alive
Jerry and Teresa Herring
j.t.herring at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 4 15:11:47 PDT 2007
In my time with in the SCA I have learned that there is not one dream that
is followed but many brought together by our society. Our goal should be to
share with each in those dreams. We should seek to create a time and place
where chivalry, honor, integrity, and glory are more respectful and
romanticized behaviors upheld by us all. We should all hold ourselves
accountable and pursue bettering this game we play. We should strive to be
more than people in funny clothes having a party.
It is my dream to walk the fields among the pavilions and see people being
more and better then what they are in their everyday lives, to see friends
gathered together in good company and good fun that follows the tenants of
this romanticized medieval life that we pursue. It is my hope that we all
realize that we have a very special opportunity to take part in something
special within the SCA, that this is a special place where inside each of us
is a special dream and that we might come to honor and respect those dreams
as much as we should honor and respect each other.
To much of late I see people showing disrespect, or participating in lewd
acts, I see people not taking the special efforts that those who went before
took to make an SCA event a magical place, a place of knights and kings,
where every woman was a lady and every man was chivalrous. We need to strive
to change ourselves in little ways, ways to be a little kinder, to have more
understanding, and to show it in acts of kindness, respect, and patience's.
We need to learn to strive for and promote the humble grace, honor, and
nobility in each of us. We need to to do more than recognize those qualities
more than that we need to revel in them.
Look to yourself search your heart of hearts to see if you are upholding the
ideals of the SCA, I would challenge each of us to become a more noble and
honorable person one who gives kindness, and respect with grace and
humility. Answer this challenge and see if your idea of the dream does not
become bigger and better and shared by others.
kindly,
Ian Dun Gillan
Baron Of Northkeep
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