[MR] Disturbing compliments

[Becky McEllistrem]

In fact many people who have stepped down from kingdom level jobs have told me later that "it's hard to go back to canton level" after being at kingdom level.  Of course I disagree completely.  I've had 2 kingdom jobs and continue to serve my canton as best as I can especially with lunches and wine and cheese parties at their events etc.  In fact I find canton service less stressful and a great break from the stress of formal kingdom level service even though I continue to serve my kingdom with offers of a variety of specific projects.  For starters there's less travel expected of you and I'm still in service to Atlantia and SCA.

People think that way because they've seen it said that it's "not gonna happen" and yes I believe it is the state we're in right now and a sad state of affairs.

I also get offended that when a friend who is a lady makes a comment to an event officer about a situation that is a bad idea and is ignored but I as baroness make the same comment to an event officer and am told how wonderful my "new idea" might be.  

It's sad but it is the state of affairs we are in and only the individual can change it I'm afraid.

I'd like to be a Pelican one day and I'd like to be a Laurel one day but I'm still very happy to have my court baron.  The concepts are not mutually exclusive.

Rebecca


--- On Sat, 6/18/11, Rorik Fredericsson <baron.rorik at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Rorik Fredericsson <baron.rorik at gmail.com>
> Subject: [MR] Disturbing compliments
> To: "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 11:48 PM
> I’ve been a Society member for 35
> years and became Court Baron almost
> twenty years ago. I got that accolade for the service I had
> done the
> previous fifteen years. I was never dedicated enough to be
> thought of
> for the Golden Dolphin, let alone Pelican, but Court Baron
> suited me
> just fine. Much of that service was parking control. With
> the Baronial
> Coronet on it has always amazed me that arguments about
> where to park
> or who parks where are drastically reduced. That coronet
> and $5 gets
> me a good coffee, but it somehow makes my directions have a
> greater
> weight.
> 
> At Storvik’s Novice Tourney this weekend five people
> approached me and
> congratulated me on doing parking lot control all day long.
> I
> sincerely thank these people. It was an ego boost... but it
> also was
> appalling. Appalling because of the second half of their
> compliment.
> They were amazed that someone who had just recently stepped
> down from
> the high position of Territorial Baron would do such a
> lowly job.
> 
> Is that what The Dream has come to? Hold a high office and
> be excused
> from ever doing low profile work ever again. It is a sad
> day if this
> has become the norm. I pray it has not.
> 
> -- 
> Rorik Fredericsson
> Court Baron
> 
> "It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being
> tired."
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