By Your Side

So I'm on a "friends of the household" list for House Blackspear. And this morning, the warlord sent out an email about the virtues of fighting together as a unit, of sacrificing individual desires for a team effort. Now, heaven knows I was raised by a father who is such a believer in individualism that he even regards team sports with suspicion. But, since one of the duties of the scop is to praise the hall-virtues of the warrior, I felt moved to write something.

I banged this out in 30 minutes, although the music for the first two lines of the verses isn't done yet. It is unfortunately of the "John Denver" school of SCA music. (Actually, what it is really shaping up to sound like is one of those new Jesuit-written Catholic hymns of the mid-1970s. Which makes sense, considering how many of them I've heard and how individual sacrifice is a theme of the song.)

( By Your Side )

Oh Goodie!

Gothic Miss Manners appears to be back on the web, under a new, non-infringing-on-Judith-Martin's-gig name.