[Northkeep] Keeping the Dream alive

[susannahhenson at cox.net]

Beautifully written! Thank you!  Thank you! - 

Respectfully,  Robin of Northkeep and Mary Anne

---- Jerry and Teresa Herring <j.t.herring at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
>  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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--
>From Susannah Henson, also known as:
Mamasannah
Grandmasannah
Maizie
SCA name: Mary Anne