
Hey, my wonderful SCA friends--
I know it's still the season of cold and challenging roads, and many of us just aren't up to SCA activities right now (which I completely understand). Hopefully this quiet time has been one of contentment, family blessings, and what my mother (Toda Galindez in the SCA) has referred to as "a romance with nourishment." But now I'm going to suggest that some of you turn your minds to your fellows and think about award recommendations.
There are many, many SCA people out there who are vastly talented--work until they sweat blood--and fight like lightning unleashed. Some of those folks, of course, are known to Calontir and have been recognized and spurred on by Kingdom awards. Others--not so much. Sometimes it just happens that a person has been working so hard, fighting so much, or doing A&S for so long that we assume they have X, Y, or Z awards, when it isn't so. In other cases, some folks are a bit newer, and have talent or heart to burn--and they need that encouragement, that vote of confidence, that letter of marque, as it were, to Go Be Awesome.
So I ask you, take this time to look around you, at your friends, at the people in your barony or shire whom you don't know all that well. Who has knocked your socks off in the past year? Who needs a nudge to move them into the next realm of shininess? I know that Their Majesties--the witty and gracious Magdalena and the manly and noble Hirsch *love* giving out awards to Calontiri.
So please, send in those award recommendations. Together we can lift the light of these dear people, who inspire us, to illuminate the land of Calontir!
Award Form:
http://www.calontir.sca.org/award/index.h
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Description of Calontir Awards:
http://calontir.sca.org/herald/award-int
ro.html
List of Order of Precedence (so you can see who has what):
http://calontir.sca.org/herald/op/index.h
tml
In service to Crown and Barony,
Melisende de la Roche de Lionne
Baroness of Vatavia