[Sca-cooks] merchants as Laurels

[Kathleen A. Roberts]

--On Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:26 AM -0500 Stefan li Rous 
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:

 It may well
> be that, as with the general population of SCA players, that there are a
> number that meet all the requirements for peerage, but for one reason or
> another, visibility, personality, their circle of friends or lack of the
> right people in the right places etc, just do not end up in the pool that
> candidates are drawn from.

and you  must remember, we feel obligated to change the water in the pool 
every now and then, and make sure no bacteria is growning.    8)

mama cailte's advice to her students and anyone else who will listen.... it 
doesn't mean you are the best in the world, just that a certain number of 
people at a certain time in their lives and your liife thought you were 
good enuf to honor  and hold up as someone cool you can emulate ( oh, and 
paint a target on yer chest!)     heck, half the people in the kingdom 
think i got mine for c & i rather than bardic, so that just goes to show 
you how public perception can be!)

cailte
not a stuffy ol' bardic laurel

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