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Random Thoughts on a Friday afternoon.
Feb. 19th, 2010 05:07 pm-- With J/S to come home to every night, I find I'm feeling much more at peace with myself.
Love Love Love! :-)
-- *Must* set time aside this weekend to stratigize on March Crown Ball Planning, as well as 16th C Day planning.
-- I've come to the conculsion that Equestrian stuff is very much like religion: You need to find a system/style/discipline that speaks to you and makes logical sense to you, and then once you decide on your own path you have to respect the different choices of others. And, like religion, there is the risk of much discord if you enter into a debate about the merits of different systems.
-- I can simultaneously Really Admire and Like something and still not want to participate in it. Recently I've been musing on this fact while I've been reading about all the great Norse-stuff people are creating and doing, as well as hearing about the old Varangian Guard encampments.
-- Tangential to the above, it seems to me that the Lack of Servants in the SCA means that it is easier to be more historically accurate when you choose to re-create more self-sufficient lifestyles. Therefore it makes sense to me that one could have a very period viking-era encampment, or a medival/rennaissance soldier on campaign camp, or middle or lower-class travellers. I think this is part of the appeal of the more military-based re-enactment groups, as well as the old VG.
But I don't want to do that. I want to play at being Noble and Rich. Without servants I don't see how one could have a completely period encampment and play Noble -- especially European medival or renassaince noblitly.
-- The more I read the Decameron the more I like the 14th C. At least 2 stories with young women playfully catching fish in streams, bath houses, playing with cute animals in forest glades, and abbasses being caught with their lover's underwear on thier heads. Really, what's not to like? ;-)
-- I just learned about the medeivalist.net and the medeivalblogspot.com sites. Very cool!
-- If it doesn't rain J/S and I will start our pilgrimages to different EQ practices. If it doesn't rain, there will be a Mists practice down in the Santa Cruz area. I think J/S would enjoy talking about mounted archery with Z and Sir C, as well as about the Vaquaro (sp?) tradition of riding, which I know C is very interested in.
-- Slowly, when I have time here and there, I've started work on copying J/S's old gambason. So far one big rectangle of fabric and padding is quilted, and I can cut a front half and a back half out of that. Started on another rectangle. The way my brain is these days this is the level of sewing I'm up for right now. :-/
Love Love Love! :-)
-- *Must* set time aside this weekend to stratigize on March Crown Ball Planning, as well as 16th C Day planning.
-- I've come to the conculsion that Equestrian stuff is very much like religion: You need to find a system/style/discipline that speaks to you and makes logical sense to you, and then once you decide on your own path you have to respect the different choices of others. And, like religion, there is the risk of much discord if you enter into a debate about the merits of different systems.
-- I can simultaneously Really Admire and Like something and still not want to participate in it. Recently I've been musing on this fact while I've been reading about all the great Norse-stuff people are creating and doing, as well as hearing about the old Varangian Guard encampments.
-- Tangential to the above, it seems to me that the Lack of Servants in the SCA means that it is easier to be more historically accurate when you choose to re-create more self-sufficient lifestyles. Therefore it makes sense to me that one could have a very period viking-era encampment, or a medival/rennaissance soldier on campaign camp, or middle or lower-class travellers. I think this is part of the appeal of the more military-based re-enactment groups, as well as the old VG.
But I don't want to do that. I want to play at being Noble and Rich. Without servants I don't see how one could have a completely period encampment and play Noble -- especially European medival or renassaince noblitly.
-- The more I read the Decameron the more I like the 14th C. At least 2 stories with young women playfully catching fish in streams, bath houses, playing with cute animals in forest glades, and abbasses being caught with their lover's underwear on thier heads. Really, what's not to like? ;-)
-- I just learned about the medeivalist.net and the medeivalblogspot.com sites. Very cool!
-- If it doesn't rain J/S and I will start our pilgrimages to different EQ practices. If it doesn't rain, there will be a Mists practice down in the Santa Cruz area. I think J/S would enjoy talking about mounted archery with Z and Sir C, as well as about the Vaquaro (sp?) tradition of riding, which I know C is very interested in.
-- Slowly, when I have time here and there, I've started work on copying J/S's old gambason. So far one big rectangle of fabric and padding is quilted, and I can cut a front half and a back half out of that. Started on another rectangle. The way my brain is these days this is the level of sewing I'm up for right now. :-/
