[SCA-BMDL] Salve Accolens! A Motto for the Debatable Lands

[Krista Cogan]

What an excellent idea! See what we can accomplish together? I wish I would
have thought of it myself! Thank you!

See, here is the beauty of game side stuff - it's flexy!

~Bns. Hilda

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:00 PM Shawn MacIntyre <medicmacintyre at gmail.com>
wrote:

> While the idea of a "Motto" for the Barony may be a great idea, I have an
> issue with this not being brought up for public discussion and chosen by
> the few, Who had input in the process? I have attended all the business
> meetings because they are held at my church. I think a better idea would be
> to get input from all the members of the barony, perhaps have a contest to
> choose a motto rather than singularly making a decision on behalf of the
> populace. While there is a "Game Side" and a" Business Side" to the SCA, a
> motto is something that the populace as a whole should decide. While you
> point out that the motto is about Love and Acceptance, it lacks the input
> of the many, which is the opposite of acceptance. The Hael and Thescorre's
> motto have meaning to the populace because they represent something special
> that the populace can get behind. Picking a motto is more like making a
> campaign saying, while your backers may get behind it, without a reason to
> stand by it, it is a saying, not a motto.
>
> Maighstir Liam
> 7th Baron of the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands (Retired)
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:35 PM Stórfréttir Updates <
> admin at debatablelands.org> wrote:
>
>> There is new Baronial News at the Stórfréttir!
>>
>> Salve Accolens! A Motto for the Debatable Lands
>> Posted by: Hilderun Hugelman
>>
>> Note to those reading from the email list, click on the link below to see
>> a formatted version with live links at the blog website. On this, the eve
>> of our third Debatable Lands Equestrian Championship (details, and
>> schedule), we'd like to introduce to you our new Baronial motto! SALVE
>> ACCOLENS! What does it mean? HELLO NEIGHBORS! It is the week of World
>> Kindness Day, embodied by the greatest modern champion of kindness and
>> courtesy, especially toward oneself and their neighbors: Mr. Fred Rogers.
>> The Debatable Lands is his home Barony, and we hope that all our people
>> will strive toward these ideals: kindness, courtesy, generous and open
>> hearts, mindfulness to feelings, and to be helping and loving and
>> welcoming. All these, we feel, are encompassed by "Hello Neighbors" -
>> "Salve Accolens". We hope to enact these these ideals in word and deed, and
>> hope you all will join us. We are ALL each others' neighbors. SALVE
>> ACCOLENS! Please use this new Baronial motto with gusto and verity. (Also,
>> it's Latin, so you can say it the other way: ACCOLENS SALVE!) See you at
>> Baronial Equestrian Champs tomorrow! In Levitate et Caritate, and
>> Cheers,Baron Brandubh and Baroness Hilda "Listening is where love begins:
>> listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors." -Fred Rogers
>>
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>>
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>> http://debatablelands.org/blog/?p=4056.
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