INDEX OLD ISSUES OF TW #1, May 1991 #2, June 1991 #3, August 1991 #4, early September 1991 #5, late September 1991 #6, October 1991 Bio Pages on some of the writers Topics, links added as pages are created: Interkingdom Anthropology      Ethnocentricity      Kingdom Traditions SCA Itself      SCA as Grand Theatre      Serious Play: Only a Game? Teachers/Students Personal Growth      Biographies      SCA's Effect      Personal Growth      Persona      Rest in Peace Knighthood Squires Martial      Accepting Blows      Training      About Wars      Earned Advantage      Archery      Why Die? Be Ransomed!      Mercenaries      Coronets on helms Peerage      Campaigning for Peerage      Fealty      Making Peers      Tapping Out      Peers on the Clean-up Crew Virtues      Peers Serving      Humility Arts and Sciences      Enhancing Arts      Authenticity      Scribal Backlog      Courtly Arts vs. Non-Courtly Arts Art and Poetry Writing and Words Ideas      "The Dream"      Religion      Real vs. Make-Believe      The SCA as Religion      Two Lives to Live      The Nature of Power Other Publications Newsletters Barons, Princes/Kings      Term limits      Powers      In Her Own Right      Royalty and Feasts Interpersonal      Tolerance      Sexuality, Rank and Ethics      Isolation      SCA and divorce Heraldry, Formality, Atmosphere      Toasts      Introductions      Ceremonies     Vigils      Precedence Thinkwell Itself      How TW changed folks SCA Organization      History      Membership Chirurgeons and Fighters Impressions/Perspective      "Time out?"      Judgment      Charisma      Central SCA Mythology      Burnout Rank      Peer Fear      Titles      Opinions Children Awards Criteria Magic Moments Tattoos TV/Radio

ThinkWell was once a simple project by one person with one entryway and one delivery method. The cost of photocopying and mailing would make it prohibitively expensive now, even if physically feasible.

The original ThinkWell was on paper. The current plan for ThinkWell is for it to be a network of selected ideas and commentary. Because of the nature of communications in the early 21st century, many people can participate, and very quickly, but the quality of immediate communications is, on average, low. Let's try to avoid that. Then, by selecting best parts and small jewels of that, treasures can be created. I'm not in a hurry. Life ebbs and flows.

Ideas don't need to be new or innovative to make someone think. Certainly anyone in the SCA must have had the thrill of discovering something that's a thousand years old, that many others had found before. What's new to me is new in my universe. What's new to someone who has just joined the SCA is as new as it can be. Newness to someone who's been working on the same thoughts for forty years might be welcome news.

Discussion List

Go to Guidelines for the discussion, and a sign-up link on the same page. You might also want to just read the archives, which will be open to the public, though you will need to join the list to post or to receive it by e-mail.

Paper letters through the mail

If people want to send potentially publishable comments on paper, my address is
Sandra Dodd
2905 Tahiti Ct. NE                       (don't omit any—there's a very similar address)
Albuquerque NM 87112
a link for printing that out, so you can just cut it out and tape it to a letter if you want, or cut and paste it into a word file.

I can decipher just about any handwriting, and I don't mind misspellings at all. I'll fix them as I transcribe, if a gem sparkles. I DO mind misspellings in final versions, so if any of you find typos on topic pages, please, please let me know. If any of you have non-computer-using friends who want to participate, you might want to pass this on, if you also like them enough to print out and deliver discussions or pages in which their input appears. I have people I like that much; I hope you do too.

E-Mail to Ælflæd

Sandra@SandraDodd.com
Anything sent with this e-mail link is fodder for public use.

Links from Other Sites

On-topic links can be posted to the blog or the list, or sent to me by e-mail or on paper. Some will make it onto best-of-topic pages; some won't. If you have an article on your own website or blog, or you want to write one there, on some of the topics that come up on the discussion list or blog, send the link!