Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
It’s not that I have to get myself out of negative and/or ‘bad’ moods on some mornings…it’s more a matter of, (an illustration that should resonate with the rogers: it’s 5:30 pm on Thursday of Thanksgiving. Dinner was a success and your guests are watching TV in the living room and you’ve just finished putting away the dishes. You sit for a minute (you’ve been up since 5:30am), and you nod off, just for a second and, all of a sudden, someone walks in and says, ‘We’re all going for a walk, come on it’ll be fun!’ lol that is what this morning was like, trying to write this week’s TToT). It’s a matter of working out the emotional stiffness (from habitual worry) and trying to stretch all the muscles (I mean, I am capable of the gratitude thing that this bloghop emphasizes). It’s just that some mornings… it seems to take a little longer on some mornings to get my mind right for this exercise. (I know that this TToT is a good thing, and it’s benefits are what keep me coming back…week after week…after…)
Hey!! Lets go ice skating!
1) is being able to start one more TToT Post. (no! hold that ‘awww’ you haven’t seen what I will be trying to pass off as a grat list!)
2) Christine and Dyanne as scotts, they’re not only fun to know, but following their blogs makes me smile (and/or laugh), at times, as they illustrate the scottian worldview
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4) ok here’s where I ‘started’ this Post:
Wordless Grat List:
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5) yeah, I know… a) that doesn’t make any sense at all! (and the least I could do would be to present these photos with captions or titles, like zoe and Kristi do so well with their photo Posts… but, hey, if I took the Doctrine name off this Post, mixed it up with a bunch of others and said, “find the Doctrine post and win the prize’ who doesn’t feel totally confident? 2) I didn’t invoke the BoSR (aka SBoR) to count each photo as an item! what gives?!!
6) That’s a pretty low-keyly archaic expression! ‘…what gives?’ I better go look it up.
7) (yeah, I know, now I’m starting to drift into cheating at the itemization….) but that is also a very useful insight into the worldview of a clark! If any of you ‘non-clarks’ are trying to see how the Wakefield Doctrine can be helpful in better understanding a clark in your life, know this: clarks (believe that they) keep track of everything in their world. and when it looks like a clark is trying to take advantage of a situation (“…dear, I thought we discussed this already, you said that would do (fill in blank), like you promised!”) well, if your clark insists that they are holding up their half of whatever bargain you are in, there’s a very good chance that they are factoring in a variable that you are not aware of… (the clark in this situation might be thinking, ‘I know I said I would study 1 hour for the 1 hour of TV, but the Reading I did last week, that she didn’t count… that gives us a credit against the study time!’)
8) there was another…. oh yeah! let do another mystery Item…. who to go to, who to go to…. here
9) (you ever plan on exercising and, knowing that you have to stretch and limber up first, find that you have spent all your time getting ready and left no time for the actual activity?
10… hit the showers, yo
* hey Dyanne…Christine don’t say it!**
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** yeah, at least I have Phyllis in one photo
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FRIST!
pha…..wrist!
Yeah it’s a mystery comment…
hahahhaha I just read the title!
(thought you’d enjoy it lol)
I kinda like the randomness of it.
yeah… that was exactly my skilled intent, in conveying to the Readers!!!!
lol (thank you for the kindness)
Grateful for grain elevators?
Sarah
lol… yeah not certain what they keep in ’em… I’m suspecting it’s like food for the cows (not in the picture)…as silos go, these are not all that gigantic …. maybe 40 feet (and wooden, if that tells us anything)
Silage is in the silo.
thats cow food, right?
yup.
This is far more than ‘starting to drift’ :p YOU OWE THE SEVEN A DANCE!
Well I am totally engrossed in low keyly archaic expressions like what gives, keep on trucking, and yo.
yeah… so here’s what I got from wiktionary:
“First attested in 1940. in John O’Hara’s 1940 novel Pal Joey. The term is considered by the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition (2013) and several other references to be a calque of German was gibt’s? and/or a Yiddish equivalent. Brian Joseph considers this unlikely, however, and speculates that despite its extremely late attestation, it and the German was gibt’s may “allow[] for a reconstruction of a Proto-West-Germanic existential use of ‘give’, which survives marginally into present usage.”
all well and good but what I want to know is what the hell the ‘[]’ in the last line supposed to be!
I totally agree with your intro. I admit to falling asleep at the gaming table last night, and I am also guilty if desperately trying to remember what beautiful things have happened this week while I can’t barely remember what I had for breakfast that day. Thanks for sharing the Una pictures, and the other pictures as well. Pictures are awesome!
yeah some (Saturday*) mornings are more difficult that others
* I write the post Saturday morning, have not had any real luck writing in advance.
Words or photos…whatever works. Una is such a pretty girl!
This is one of your posts that confuses the hell out of me, and what’s more, you KNOW it does!
Good dog, Una!
#8 is the best part of your list ;)
Roger here resonates with the suggestion indeed, Clark. I certainly find it hard to get myself out of the funk in the morning! It’s that dreadful sense of having so much to do, etc etc etc!
yeah I like the metaphor of stretching and warming up, because it doesn’t have to be that I am in a negative space, it’s just that to get to a certain (gratitude) state requires ….exertion. and I don’t want to pull a sentimental muscle!
Allz I know is that it’s 4:44. And I’m up. Have been since 3:33.
What IS it with these numbers? And what IS it with my middle-of-the-night need to write?
It’s because at those times of day, we’re the farthest away from the everyday, ‘real’ world as we normally get (other than in time of extreme duress or romance)
I feel as if I cheated this week because I used 10 pictures with no words. Tell me I didn’t cheat :)
…you didn’t cheat!
no, serially! it’s looks like a lot of us went with the photo format, but if we want to blame someone, I vote for zoe! lol
Im good with it, ya cheaters.
lol
damn! does that mean I have to go out and buy some chickens?!
either that or a poodle
It was definitely a photo week. I like how you captured the sunbeams in that last photo.
thank you… it took me hours and hours to perfect the set up, painstakingly precise adjustment ….lol yeah! right
We have one in my yard. It’s over 100 years old and empty. Yes, cow food.
Damn! Why didn’t that reply go under the silo discussion?!?
Dude, really should have just counted the photos as individual thankfuls. This list would have made a whole lot more sense. :)
Lovely photos by the way. It looks like you have a pretty, secluded property.
sense? sense??!! now wait a minute! when I joined the TToT Board of Co-hosts (as it’s only male mem… ) er only person of the Y Chrome persuasion, no one mentioned ‘making sense!’
lol
(yes… it’s mostly pine trees, which have the advantage of staying green all year around)…
#10. And #4 because pictures are pretty cool. The SBoR/BoSR is a handy little bugger as it allows for the counting of pictures as eaches or as a group. Your option.
it is, isn’t it? (lol… I keep a copy close at hand as I venture into ‘the world-past-Sunday’… having trouble convincing some people in the ‘real’ world that my cited out-secret-book should be sufficient. what the hell!)
love the term ‘eaches’