SC - re: pre-1500 cookery (turns into rant;

[Sharon L. Harrett]

sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG wrote:
> 
> Ceridwen wrote:
> 
> > Unto kat and any and all others I may have upset...my apologies. I
> > should Know bettter than to leave out economics as a factor, when I
> > myself have spent most of my life living from paycheck to paycheck, and
> > truly have not done all that I would like to in the SCA for that very
> > reason. (including redacting recipes).
> 
> > Kat, you are absolutely right.... the SCA is a hobby, and priority must
> > be placed where it is most important.. on family and their needs. I
> > think in retrospect, that I got up on my soapbox and ranted away,
> > forgetting some of the reasons behind the reasons. Again, I apologize,
> > and let me add your wisdom to what I have already written, not as an
> > excuse, but as a concrete reason for not doing something.
> 
> My lady, I in turn would like to ask *your* forgiveness.  In re-reading this this morning; I realized to my horror that it looked like I was ranting at *YOU*; and that was definitely not my intention!
> 
> Please understand that I was ranting about the subject in general; and the fact that several of the responses that had come in so far sounded *to me* rather like gross generalizations of the SCA populace at large...  being too ignorant, lazy, or stupid to do anything but what they are familiar with.  I chose your response to reply to because what you said was closest to what I wanted to say... a similar argument, but for a different reason.  And your reasons ARE every bit as valid as mine; you h
> 
> Folks, I really do want to apologize to all of you for going off like that.  I know I'm not the only one who's been financially strapped--hell, a lot of you have been students!--and I don't think there's a one of us on this list that doesn't have to work for a living.
> 
> I'm not saying my point of view wasn't valid; but I am sorry for expressing it in such a way.  Thanks for your indulgence.
> 
>         - kat (sheepishly putting away her soap box for a while...)
> 
>

Kat, not a problem :). You did the same thing I did... Knee-jerk
reaction to a sensitive subject. We all do that, and often it is helpful
to others to put things in a different perspective.
Ceridwen
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