Thoughts to believe in.

[bunnyjadwiga]

From Babylon 5: this is my mantra:
"Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who opposes me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than someone who is always on my side because it was expected and required." - Delenn, "Rumors, Bargains and Lies"

And...
when I was on vigil for my laurel, the most important tool anyone gave me was this: Mistress Pagan said: "Just say thank you." I discovered that no matter how much I felt embarrassed by something, or even if it hurt, or it was good-- Just 'thank you' was sometimes all that was necessary.

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

There are at least a pair of two-word phrases where a particular third word is harmful. "Thank you, but" or "I'm sorry, but". :-)

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

No one told you to take the belt, not the baldric?

Master Liam

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Let us be fair. If someone would have spoken to me on that point, given my personality-- they would have said, "I guess you're going to take the baldric, not the belt, huh?"

Recent events have shown that I do actually stand a chance of growing up to be entirely too much like Sam Vimes for other people's comfort.

Re: Master Liam

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

You have an excellent point, but there are so many knights and so few masters (comparatively), that few of us were ever told to take the baldric.

;)

Re: Master Liam

[fuzzybutchkins.livejournal.com]

huh? could you explain all that to me? (group politics are a continual interest for me, for better or worse.)

Re: Master Liam

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I tend to be kinda obtuse.

1. A friend of us was on Pelican vigil. He was a fighter, so when two Jersey knights came in (we are in Boston), they told heim to take the belt (be a knight), not the baldric (a master).

2. Among the knights, masters are seen as sorta rogues. Becoming a master means not necessarily "running with the pack."

3. So I was teasing Jadwiga, and she said:

"Let us be fair. If someone would have spoken to me on that point, given my personality-- they would have said, "I guess you're going to take the baldric, not the belt, huh?"

4. I agreed with her, but commented that you just don't see that many masters these days, so most Chiv are knights and would suggest the belt.

A vague, silly comment.

Re: Master Liam

[fuzzybutchkins.livejournal.com]

ahhh. nifty.