I don't know if I have a secret but I've been thinking about this since yesterday.
I don't tend to play politics and frequently have a "head in the sand" general policy about it. In one respect that isn't good, but I can go to events and enjoy them and mostly be friends with everyone.
Most of my enthusiasm is from having all my friends in the SCA and having a huge string of unfinished projects that are mostly all SCA related. There have been years where I wasn't as interested and barely made it to more that 3-4 events a year, but I keep coming back to these things I really want to do or finish. I want to really study the Elizabethan era, I want to finish my sweetbag, learn card weaving, learn to do really good scrolls and teach people to do scrolls. I'd like to make some Elizabethan style jewelry and do more pewter casting. I want to try knitting again and make a pair of socks and a hat. I want to test myself by entering Pentathlon and learn to write a sonnet.
I guess it doesn't require the SCA to do most of that, but most of my friends are in the SCA and they are such a fascinating bunch of people. I'd really miss them if I totally dropped out or stopped going to events. As I get older in the SCA, the number of the old guard gets smaller and I realize that many of these are the people I have a long history with. And as the SCA gets older, new people join with new interests and new enthusiasm and that keeps me going too.
I don't ever want to be the snarky old-timer who just has knee-jerk reactions to everything that isn't how we did it in the olden days. Everything needs to be looked at with fresh eyes. We have beautiful old traditions that can be maintained while still opening the door and welcoming new ideas and new ways. We just have to be open to them.
Wow....that got longer and more far afield then I planned. :)
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Date: 2007-08-25 05:14 pm (UTC)I don't tend to play politics and frequently have a "head in the sand" general policy about it. In one respect that isn't good, but I can go to events and enjoy them and mostly be friends with everyone.
Most of my enthusiasm is from having all my friends in the SCA and having a huge string of unfinished projects that are mostly all SCA related. There have been years where I wasn't as interested and barely made it to more that 3-4 events a year, but I keep coming back to these things I really want to do or finish. I want to really study the Elizabethan era, I want to finish my sweetbag, learn card weaving, learn to do really good scrolls and teach people to do scrolls. I'd like to make some Elizabethan style jewelry and do more pewter casting. I want to try knitting again and make a pair of socks and a hat. I want to test myself by entering Pentathlon and learn to write a sonnet.
I guess it doesn't require the SCA to do most of that, but most of my friends are in the SCA and they are such a fascinating bunch of people. I'd really miss them if I totally dropped out or stopped going to events. As I get older in the SCA, the number of the old guard gets smaller and I realize that many of these are the people I have a long history with. And as the SCA gets older, new people join with new interests and new enthusiasm and that keeps me going too.
I don't ever want to be the snarky old-timer who just has knee-jerk reactions to everything that isn't how we did it in the olden days. Everything needs to be looked at with fresh eyes. We have beautiful old traditions that can be maintained while still opening the door and welcoming new ideas and new ways. We just have to be open to them.
Wow....that got longer and more far afield then I planned. :)