My arts are almost entirely driven via the Society for Creative Anachronism Kingdom of Ansteorra (Texas and Oklahoma), primarily within the Province of Mooneschadowe (in my hometown of Stillwater, OK).
The SCA (sca.org) is an international not-for-profit organization that researches and recreates the Middle Ages the way we think they should have been - which, in our opinion, excludes practical experience with death-causing plague and famine, and includes applications of germ theory.
My current plan for this blog is to try to keep myself entertained, with the hope that eventually, I'll have enough content here to start looking reputable.
I'm not holding my breath on that last point. But at the same time, the pursuit is important enough to me that I've started a post to collect my rabbit trails. In the short term, I'm writing, collating, and curating long, rambling in-process project notes. In that way, this whole blog itself mirrors a post painstakingly chronicling a project using yarn I spun. This is my happy tedium: trial and error, and not stopping until I get a result I love like the sound of steady rain on the rooftop while I have nowhere else I have to be, with a project in hand, and a cat settled in.
I also offer some event notes. I do like a good synopsis of the Really Cool Things we get into, in this Society. I have a few of those I've written over the years. At the same time, the Society is filled with people, and I very much want to keep this blog far away from commenting on personalities and interpersonal conflicts.
In short, my plan here is to keep to the parts I want to remember, and emulate, and learn from.
I welcome you along on this journey!
My current plan for this blog is to try to keep myself entertained, with the hope that eventually, I'll have enough content here to start looking reputable.
I'm not holding my breath on that last point. But at the same time, the pursuit is important enough to me that I've started a post to collect my rabbit trails. In the short term, I'm writing, collating, and curating long, rambling in-process project notes. In that way, this whole blog itself mirrors a post painstakingly chronicling a project using yarn I spun. This is my happy tedium: trial and error, and not stopping until I get a result I love like the sound of steady rain on the rooftop while I have nowhere else I have to be, with a project in hand, and a cat settled in.
I also offer some event notes. I do like a good synopsis of the Really Cool Things we get into, in this Society. I have a few of those I've written over the years. At the same time, the Society is filled with people, and I very much want to keep this blog far away from commenting on personalities and interpersonal conflicts.
In short, my plan here is to keep to the parts I want to remember, and emulate, and learn from.
I welcome you along on this journey!
