Post by Captain John Stout on Mar 11, 2005 8:15:00 GMT -5
Sean makes some valid points. Shane makes some vaild points. Ranger makes some valid points.
Who is right? Who is wrong?
And now I feel worse for it all because I think it started with me. If I had never lost my temper and went and aired dirty laundry on the GLMF boards, then maybe this never would have happened. Maybe it never would have come to this. I knew there were people with deep feelings about what we have done in Rock Creek for the past decade, but I didn't think that it would cause as much of a stir that it has.
Maybe the key here was I just didn't think.
I was hurt to learn from a third party that I wasn't going to be involved in the Faire anymore, and I lost control. I just wish now that we could go back and do things differently so that feelings wouldn't be so aggregiously harmed.
People I called friend now I can't talk to anymore, and there is no greater pain to someone like me than to lose friends. I always tell people that a "man is defined by the friendships he makes, and the people who surround him" - a valuable insight I learned from a very famous historical figure.
But what started as me venting my anger and my hurt has turned into personal insult and injured pride. Perhaps it was inevitable, unavoidable. They always say it gets worse before it gets better.
I don't know what to say, I don't know what to do.
All I know for sure is that I want to entertain people - it's all I ever wanted. Somewhere along the way that got a little lost, and now my time to do so anymore at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire is in jeopardy.
To the Ranger - I never sent you a PM because I agreed with you. Is this kind of incite the proper way to enact change? I don't know. History tells us that when words fail, war in inevitable. This country was started that way - by one very long and gravely worded insult to the King of England. We call it the Declaration of Independence - King George saw it as a personal insult.
To Brook - whatever my personal differences with you are I never intended things to end up like this.
To Shane - if everyone in this world cared as much then we wouldn't be worth so valuable a friend.
To Trevor - it takes a lot of guts to be the man who sponsored this forum of speech and discussion. I wish my hasty and inauspicious actions hadn't been the cause of so much grief and unhappiness.
Call me a bleeding heart, I wear it on my sleeve. I always have. It is apparent that we all want what is best for the Faire, and we disagree on how to do that. Along the way people became the price of those decisions, and when your business is people, then that is too high a price to pay.
I don't know what the point of this post was all about - just me speaking from my heart again.
I hope it helps . . . . finally.
Richard Brentar
King Amaranth, Papa Beshalde, Merlin, King Richard, Friar Tuck, Ian McWooley, entertainer.
Who is right? Who is wrong?
And now I feel worse for it all because I think it started with me. If I had never lost my temper and went and aired dirty laundry on the GLMF boards, then maybe this never would have happened. Maybe it never would have come to this. I knew there were people with deep feelings about what we have done in Rock Creek for the past decade, but I didn't think that it would cause as much of a stir that it has.
Maybe the key here was I just didn't think.
I was hurt to learn from a third party that I wasn't going to be involved in the Faire anymore, and I lost control. I just wish now that we could go back and do things differently so that feelings wouldn't be so aggregiously harmed.
People I called friend now I can't talk to anymore, and there is no greater pain to someone like me than to lose friends. I always tell people that a "man is defined by the friendships he makes, and the people who surround him" - a valuable insight I learned from a very famous historical figure.
But what started as me venting my anger and my hurt has turned into personal insult and injured pride. Perhaps it was inevitable, unavoidable. They always say it gets worse before it gets better.
I don't know what to say, I don't know what to do.
All I know for sure is that I want to entertain people - it's all I ever wanted. Somewhere along the way that got a little lost, and now my time to do so anymore at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire is in jeopardy.
To the Ranger - I never sent you a PM because I agreed with you. Is this kind of incite the proper way to enact change? I don't know. History tells us that when words fail, war in inevitable. This country was started that way - by one very long and gravely worded insult to the King of England. We call it the Declaration of Independence - King George saw it as a personal insult.
To Brook - whatever my personal differences with you are I never intended things to end up like this.
To Shane - if everyone in this world cared as much then we wouldn't be worth so valuable a friend.
To Trevor - it takes a lot of guts to be the man who sponsored this forum of speech and discussion. I wish my hasty and inauspicious actions hadn't been the cause of so much grief and unhappiness.
Call me a bleeding heart, I wear it on my sleeve. I always have. It is apparent that we all want what is best for the Faire, and we disagree on how to do that. Along the way people became the price of those decisions, and when your business is people, then that is too high a price to pay.
I don't know what the point of this post was all about - just me speaking from my heart again.
I hope it helps . . . . finally.
Richard Brentar
King Amaranth, Papa Beshalde, Merlin, King Richard, Friar Tuck, Ian McWooley, entertainer.