[Ravensfort] Fw: [Ansteorra] Query...

[Kezia (Barbara Gilbert)]

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From: "Rob rose" <onetruewolf at hotmail.com>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Query...


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> Why did i join?  It was new and different. At least to me.  Plus it looked
way
> too fun.
>
> Why do i stay?  That's the easy one.  extraordinary people.  I think that
> ordinary people stay home and play payrolls and paychecks.  Extraordinary
> people do extraordinary things.  Somewhere, i found a home amongst some
very
> extraordinary people.  I found family in them.
>
>
>
> Ian macleod
> >From: "Theron Bretz"
> >Reply-To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> >To:
> >Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Query...
> >Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 20:20:23 -0500
> >
> > > So...why did you join and why do you stay in the SCA?
> >
> >I first heard of the SCA when I was 14 or 15, reading L. Sprague de
Camp's
> >"The Blade of Conan", a collection of stories and articles from "Amra" (a
> >Conan fanzine from the 60s). One of the articles was by Poul Anderson and
> >entitled "Richard the Lionhearted is Alive, Well, and Living in the
> >Twentieth Century", which gave a snapshot of the SCA circa AS 5 or 6. The
> >notion of people putting on armour and playing knight was too cool to put
> >away and colored much of my free time for the next few years as I
improvised
> >highly dangerous weapons and somehow avoided killing my brothers with
them.
> >
> >I finally found the Society just before TYC, and my first event was the
> >Crown Tourney in Emerald Keep that Inman won for Drusilla. I got horribly
> >ill from heat-prostration (the hole-in-the-ground toilets didn't help
> >either - another thing I don't miss about the old days), got better,
watched
> >the tournament (which was held on a Sunday) and resolved to keep doing
it.
> >
> >Why do I stay is sometimes a tougher question. With job, family,
mortgage,
> >a nascent writing career (very nascent, barely there at all, really), and
> >other interests, making time for the Society is something I have to do
> >consciously. My reasons for sticking around change depending on a number
of
> >factors: a sense of obligation and "giving back", a desire to teach, the
> >joy of fighting in a tournament, sheer inertia. Often times, Bia and I
> >find that one or the other is more fired up about the Society than the
other
> >and that helps to keep things going.
> >
> >But I'd be lying if I said I didn't think once in a while about how much
> >easier things would be if I gave it up until the kid gets older. But I
know
> >that if I did, I probably would keep finding reasons not to play, so I
stick
> >around.
> >
> >Luciano
> >
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