minstrel: Fools circle, et al....

[Mike Baker]

> Sometimes when we strive too hard for authenticity we lose sight
> of what's really important and that is that we should have fun doing this.

There is always a time for being serious as well as for having fun.  When we 
can combine the two, all the better. (Yes, I can have "fun" singing a dirge 
or composing a satire as well as when I join in a singalong of "The 
Scotsman".)

>  As for it being "beneath" us, when has anything ever been beneath a bard?

Well, at least a part of the time I would hope that solid ground is under my 
feet.  Helps with supporting from the diaphram and other performance 
techniques.

The road or waves that take me to new friends or return me to old, familiar 
towns are also nice to have beneath me.

Some would even say that *everything* except the gods themselves are beneath 
the true bards, or no more than alongside.

Other times, I would hope for no more than a willing partner ... and even 
then I've been known to take turns <wink, nudge, GRYN>

Kihe Blackeagle (the Dreamsinger Bard)  s.k.a. Amr ibn Majid al-Bakri 
al-Amra
     currently residing in Barony of the Steppes, Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mike C. Baker                      mbaker at rapp.com
Any opinions expressed are obviously my own unless explicitly stated 
otherwise! 
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