SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #169

[L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt]

A few days ago I wrote:
>>Don't get me wrong...I think there is plenty of room for formality, and
>>formality can be fun. BUT, there are folk who forget that this is a big game
>>of pretend. For instance, recently a visiting "heiress" had quite a tantrum.
>
>(story omitted)
>

And His Grace Duke Sir Cariadoc Wrote in return (title used out of respect):
>I don't think this is an issue of "pretend." Important people in period who
>tried to demand unreasonable things were making a mistake too. The line
>"punctuality is the courtesy of princes" is not from the SCA. My favorite
>Caliphs, Umar, Muawiyya, and al Ma'Mun, were effective in part because they
>didn't take themselves too seriously.
>

<<graceful story about what truly matters in life omitted for space
constraints>>

Thank you for a lovely story. Having never worn a "hat", nor never being
likely to wear one, it is sometimes hard to see what the opinions are likely
to be on the other side. 

Aoife 
"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot."
				---Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet 1889-1957