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Post by Sir Trevor on Jul 24, 2007 17:35:46 GMT -5
Just wanted to voice this. We are already half way through the run Yeah, time flies when you are having fun. The final 3 weekends will probably fly by even faster. Take some time and savor the joy that is faire when you are in the shire. Those moments are precious and fleeting. I know for those of us who are there every day, it starts getting to the point where things feel comfortable and routine. And it is easy to take things for granted. DON'T!What we have this season, we will only have this season. If I have learned anything over the years, it is that things change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. But they always change. Performers will change. Cast members will change. Characters will change. Vendors will change. No other season will ever be like this season. So stop and realize just how great things are. Take a moment to notice the little things. Soak it all up. Enjoy every moment to it's fullest, because you will never get it back again. Don't mourn the loss. Embrace each moment for it's potential, and realize how truely blessed we actually are.
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Post by he who lurks in sahdows on Jul 24, 2007 18:15:03 GMT -5
i have to agree with that and to quote Dracula "a few days go by to make up a century"
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Post by Hephzibah on Jul 24, 2007 20:47:24 GMT -5
Well stated Trevor, well said
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Post by Hawise on Jul 25, 2007 7:14:33 GMT -5
WOW Trevor! That was absolutely beautiful and poetic. And too true - hold the season tight in your heart - things change whether we want them to or not. Savor!
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Post by Bosha on Jul 25, 2007 8:48:58 GMT -5
And, may I add, that we have 12 days of faire to last us all the year through, so each one is so very precious. Each day of faire is worth a month of time, so let the memories build to fill and hold you over till next year!
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Post by Allyn on Jul 25, 2007 10:04:06 GMT -5
Oh Well said Sir Trevor!!!!!!! Allyn
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Post by CelticWench on Jul 25, 2007 10:24:34 GMT -5
Wonderfully put, Trevor. (For some reason, I'm finding this especially true - and bittersweet - this year.)
And thank goodness for places like this board, where we can stay close to our faire friends year-round.
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Post by Lady Catharine on Jul 25, 2007 16:05:25 GMT -5
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Post by Molly O'Connolly on Jul 25, 2007 17:01:24 GMT -5
*sniffle sob sniffle*
i'm just so glad i've been able to REALLY be a part of everyone's faire experience...it makes me feel fuzzy inside.
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Post by Hawise on Jul 26, 2007 7:14:16 GMT -5
A wise man once said "Let us drink and be merry, all grief to refrain, for we may or might never all meet here again."
Okay, enough of the sniffles, on with the PARTY!!!
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Post by Dillasandra on Jul 26, 2007 14:10:07 GMT -5
I gotta say, I SOOOOO wish I still felt that way! Huh! Faire used to be pure magic for me.The highlight of my year. The way I defined myself. Home.
Any more, it's just a job. And one I'm enjoying less and less.
I MISS that feeling of magic, that sense of being right were I belong, the feeling of home.
Oh, I still love the people....ever the best part anyway. And it still has it's moments. But the magic is deffinatly gone.
Sigh! And no, no final decisions here or anything....I still keep hoping things will change, but it seems like every year there's just less 'for' and more 'against', and this year's not turning out any differently. Maybe time for the Goddess to consider retiring......................................
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Post by Dreamer on Jul 27, 2007 22:39:30 GMT -5
How can you say the magic is gone??
Have you seent the scenario shows? With the music and the story? Have you seen that closing thing with Robin and Marion and King Richard?
Have you heard the hordes of people who are laughing and smiling and daincing and saying that they are glad the magic is back???
Maybe you're spending too much time in one place and not getting out and seeing things . . . cause I see this as the best year I've ever seen!
Sorry, but Trevor's right - this year is a precious jewel that sould forever be cherished! If all you're going to be is bitter about the whole thing, then maybe you ought to stop posting here at all. There's no need to rain on our parade - we who like this year.
Huzzah Trevor and all the rest - keep this magic going!!!!!!!
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Post by Sir Trevor on Jul 27, 2007 23:14:13 GMT -5
Thanks for your support, but I will be the first to defend Dillasandra. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and all are encouraged to freely share that opinion. Just because someones opinion does not mesh with anothers, does not make one more right, and the other more wrong.
And unfortunately, she cannot go see the shows you speak of. She spends her whole day in the pickle grove doing her part to make the shire great for everyone else. As with anyone who actually works at things like this. Time will take it's toll. The luster will fade, and it does become a chore. Couple that with the stress of every day normal life and it gets to be too much after a time. Even with those thoughts and feelings, I hope she never stops posting here. She, and the other pickle goddesses are quirky and fun. And would be sorely missed from both the faire, and this board.
So Dreamer. While I love your enthusiasm, and quickness to defend this most wondrous season. I have to say, your comments to the Goddess are out of line.
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Post by Dillasandra on Jul 30, 2007 19:27:51 GMT -5
THANK YOU,Trevor! And, Dreamer, that WASN'T 'bitter' there...try 'wistful!' A little background - I was present at the very first GLMF back when it was out in Madison , and to say I fell in love would be an understatement. In point of fact, I wasn't in the gates 10 minutes when my sister looked at me and said, with something approching awe, "You look like you just came home!" Since I have always been one of those odd, lost souls who rarely fit in anywhere, and since I felt as if I had indeed 'come home', well, the term 'magic' didn't BEGIN to cover it!!!
I joined the cast in GLMF's third year, when it became apparent to me that merely being a patron was not going to be enough. Now, I'm not usually a joiner, being painfully shy and not all that social, and I'd less than no aspirations of ever acting, but on those rare occasions when I DO find something or somewhere that I feel at home, or find a bit of magic, well, then I tend to just dive in up to my eyeballs, and that's exactlly the case with Faire.
Found out a few things that first year. One, I SUCKED at street improv!!Two, that despite that, I made a DAMN fine Goddess ( Long, weird story, how that came about..we won't go into it here.) Three..and despite an acting coach who would have bet his right n...- oops!..arm that I wouldn't last the year, that I had in very fact found a place where I DID fit in, and DID feel comfortable and at home, not to mention finding an odd sort of family of happy, fellow freaks, and that I was there to stay!
Magic, pure and simple, in the place, the people, the charecter, the music and the mayhem! I spent a decade happily defining myself as a Faire person, in a niche where I could be as crazy and creative as I pleased ( was, in fact, encouraged to be!), making the best friends of my life, learning and growing and laughing and glorying in it all, and frequently stopping to wonder just how I'd gotten so lucky! Some of the greatest moments, and the very best memories of my life are, and forever will be,centered around Faire.
I'm crying now as I write, because...and this is the part that you obviously don't get, Dreamer.....well, life frequently just has to rear it's ugly head right in the middle of all that magic, and gods know it's been 'rearing' all over mine for some years now! I'll skip the details. I WILL tell you that I'd LOVE to get out of the Grove and actully SEE the Faire..it's been YEARS since I could. Not only duties...I do have helpers....but, bluntly, I'm handicapped now ( something I'm finding it hard to accept and adjust to as it is!) and plain and simply CAN'T.
My health is failing year by year. Those looooooong Faire days....They're torture now, and I spend half a week just recovering! All of it, what I used to glory in, it's just WORK now, more and more, when I can manage less and less!
Hell, I'm finding day to day LIFE harder and harder to handle, so suddenly all that extra time and work and mayhem and lack of sleep just ain't funny anymore!
I'm not BITTER, Dreamer, I'm mourning the loss of something that's been one of the best parts of my life for a very long time now, and that I can see fading into the distance and all I can do is stand and watch, and there's not one damned thing I can do about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I HATE that it's work now. I HATE that the magic is gone. I HATE , to quote an old Gordon Lightfoot song, that" the feelins' gone and I just can't get it back".
I'm mourning the loss of something I've loved above a great deal of other things in my life ( and , trust me, I've lost ENOUGH in the past few years) AND IT HURTS!!!!!!!!! So you'll please excuse me if I accidently rained on your little parade!
I can't say yet if this year will be my last, or if I can manage another one or two. We'll see, only time will answer that. I've got great friends helping out...it's how I've gotten THIS far. But the end IS in sight, and I don't like it one bit!
Losing things you love is an ugly reality of life, Dreamer, so you may think about cutting me a little slack, because an attitude like your's sure as hell doesn't make it any easier!
Thank you again, Trevor, for sticking up for me, and for understanding. Hopefully the Goddess wil be around for a bit longer. And sorry that this was so long! I CAN promise that I ( and, I'm sure, my fellow Goddess' as well) won't stop posting any time soon!
That whole thing about finding places where I feel at home??!! Oh YEAH!!! The Goddess LIKES it here! So, like it or not, you all are just STUCK with me for a while.....................
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Post by Sir Trevor on Jul 30, 2007 20:17:36 GMT -5
I thank you for that post. It illustrates my point even better. Enjoy it while you can. You never know why or how it will change, but it will. Don't mourn or fear the changes, that won't stop them from coming to be. Don't let the worries of things you cannot control rob you of the joy that can be had in the moment. The end may be in sight, but it isn't here yet. And there is magic everywhere in the shire this season. And though you may not notice it anymore, there is plenty of it in your little pickel grove as well.
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