Being a Peer
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(A "keeper" posting from the Steps, Feb 2006.)
However, years ago [when I asked] a very wise Knight and Master why it was important for me to wear the various award medalions and regalia, [answered] thusly: "It is important because it lets the Populace know that your deeds are valued and to be emulated".
To put it more simply, our Peers should be the people we want to be like when we grow up. :-) And I can honestly say that most all of those Peers I have personally met have had at least some traits I would like to emulate, some more than others. There are a couple that I can most honestly say are my roll models, those whom I use as a touchstone for my own behavior. There aren't any situations in the SCA, and damn few outside, that haven't been helped by my thinking, "What would Amanda do?", for instance.
You know, that's one of things I'm giving a lot of thought during my current Vigil---I don't know if I can live up to being a roll model. It's a pretty big responsibility and fairly humbling. But, with a lot of help, I'm going to do my best.
Melusine
(A "keeper" posting from the Steps, Feb 2006.)
The absolute WORST thing that can happen is when a Peerage council leaks [discussion information about a candidate] -- something they try really hard not to have happen, but sometimes it does anyway. Back in the summer of '97, someone came out of a council and told me that I was being discussed but that someone in my own shire (who I counted as a friend at the time, and we still very much are) said I wasn't ready. I cannot tell you how much that hurt.
- Councils shouldn't leak.
- the person misreported what my friend said.
- I discussed it with my Peer and my friend (and have never felt so darned awkward in my life!), and it turns out that my friend was misrepresented.
- I wasn't ready, but it should have come from my Peer and would have, except that the leaker beat him to the punch.
- Hurt like hell. For a long time. There was no reason I should have known what happened in a Council, beyond what things I might need to work on. This incident made me feel both betrayed and privvy to something which should have been kept confidential.
Arlys