camp out
Man is it hard coming back to work after having such a good week end. It was interrupted, rushed, and too short, but right now my life is such that in comparison it was great! Nothing is better than a weekend spent with friends.
We all had a long talk about the "direction" our house is taking, or not taking, depending on your point of view. Now I have never claimed to be the most or even the second most intelligent person on the planet, but I didn't exactly understand where this discussion came from. I understand that people in the house have different interests and life takes people in different directions, but aren't the house only camp outs there so we can for a moment step off of our separate paths and be with people who care for us and that we care about? Can't the people that "do" the SCA use the concept of the house and forge it into what is needed in the game work of the SCA and leave it loose for our informal get together with out offending our brothers and sisters who do not "do" the SCA? Couldn't others in the family also use the concept of the house and forge it into what ever they needed it for? Be it a LARP guild, WOW guild, dart league, charity work, or whatever with out giving offense to the people who "do" the SCA? I would like to think so. To me the main purpose of this house is these stupid little camp outs, which are not really so stupid. There are people that come to these camp outs that I normally would not get to see out side of this frame work, people that I would miss in my life. I love this house and the people in it. Let the members use it as they need to. The reason that the people in it are members is because we trust them not to sully the name of the house (Well at least not too much hehe) and to up hold the ideals of the house. I don't, as I said, really understand the problem. Maybe I'm just too simple, or too trusting, but I hope not. This house is full of my brothers and sisters, and if they have need of what I can give it is theirs no questions asked. Is there really such a large feeling of exclusiveness? I don't know, I am out of the loop right now, but I didn't feel it at the camp out. Did any one else feel it? Are we building paper windmills to tilt at? Arrrgh! This makes my head hurt.