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

[Kezia (Barbara Gilbert)]

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From: "Dom" <thunder-domi at coxinet.net>
To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra] Query...


>
> I joined because of my parents. They were driving by a park in Dallas off
> of Abrams Rd.and saw some people in "funny looking" clothes and decided to
> go and check them out. I was about 3 1/2 to 4 yrs old. I have been in
about
> 29yrs now and I stay because I have learned so many cool things. Dancing,
> Druming, Sewing, Beadwork, Embroidery, and best of all I met my wonderful
> husband. This just to name a few.  But I think that the main reason for
> staying is out of love for my friends that I have made. They are after all
> an extention of my family. There are some aspects of the game that I do
not
> like but that happens with anything in the mundane world too. I also
> believe in my heart that the majority of the children that are raised in
> the SCA have more respect for other people and their belonging and most of
> all in themselves.  Thier self-esteem is also higher and in most cases
they
> are a little too smart for their own britches(I know that I was...sheepish
> grin).  Sometimes I think about the things that my family and I could have
> done instead of always going to an event and I do bitch a little about it
> too but I do not regret it for one moment and I plan on bringing my child
> up in it also with a healthy dose of other trips too. I am a lifer.
> Something really bad has to happen to ever change that.
>
> In Service to the Dream
> Hldy Dominique Michelle LeVesseur
> Hospitaler of Wiesenfeuer
> Matriarch of Rogue Thunder
>
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