SC - one more for the road...

[Laura C. Minnick]

Greetings everyone!

I'll be leaving in a couple of hours to head back to Eugene and then
tomorrow for the famous Caversgate Gatekeeper event (most of which takes
place in one of the cleanest and loveliest rivers in the country) and I
don't know if I'll be able to check/reply to mail again before we leave
for site. So- I just want to say this...

It is a good thing and even admirable when we can fit a charity function
and effort into an ideal of medieval behaviour. But just as many of us
who would prefer to cook and present period meals will offer a
non-period snack to someone who is hungry, I think the important part is
not _how_ we do it, but that we do it at all. 

Maybe those who wrote Corpora never envisioned a bunch of Hospitallters
making a 'pilgrimage' around a high school track to 'give alms to the
poor'. (Hmm- wonder what Flieg would think? Someone wanna ask him?) And
maybe in some cases more attention should be made to making them less
obtrusive on other aspects of our re-creation. That would be good. But
we should not shirk from doing them nonetheless.

To borrow a phrase from a non-period, somewhat unpopular (in Eugene at
least) shoemaker-

Just Do It.


And now I am off! Piles of jobhunting contacts to make before I leave
today. How fast _can_ I get through town?

'Lainie