Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Here we are, Saturday again/already! (Right there is an insight into the one of the ways clarks experience the world differently from scotts and rogers… i.e. attributing a quality of persistence to the recurring event, serving to, if nothing else, convey a sense of inevitability, which, by any measure is rarely a good way to view (one’s) life and, simultaneously, expressing dissatisfaction with the rate of the passage of time.)
1) I’m grateful to the other co-hosts for their tolerance, however bemused, for my obvious inability to get out of my own head (or way…. thank you Christine, no! I know that you mean well by your all too true suggestion)
2) I’m totally grateful for my increasing words-per-minute typing, not because the work is done quicker, but because the faster I type the more likely I’ll stumble on something that’ll tie all this together, before the end of the Post hopefully!
3) I just pasted in the Post photo and I realize that 94% of this week’s TToT list is implied by this single, artsy-by-chance portrait (‘Silhouette of Dog and Driveway’) I would tell you why, but then I’d just be using up perfectly good Grat Items!
4) The Gravity Challenge ….always gratifying (hell, all I do is gather photos and post a post 6 days a week, but I still get a lot out of the effort.)
5) alright! lets address the photo. Dog: Una; Driveway: managed to get a replacement crop of grass to grow (the part just to Una’s left); weather: moderate enough to get grass seed to germinate before the inevitable cold
6) in the truest spirit of the TToT, (at least, from my perspective), is the growing love/hate/fear/excitement of my serial story project! ‘Blogdominion’ (find it here! don’t forget to Vote!) It, (the experience of writing), is pretty much what I’ve gone through in learning and attempting to apply the Wakefield Doctrine to my life has been, a humbling yet uplifting experience. The only problem with engaging in an effort to self-improve oneself, is that it is very, very difficult. What makes it very, very difficult is, in my own experience, that it’s necessary to accept shortcomings and weaknesses prior to overcoming and replacing weakness with strength. This is more difficult for clarks, in a lot of ways, than it is for scotts and rogers, because we clarks, we often don’t tell ourselves all that much about how we feel about ourselves.
7) Phyllis surely gets a standalone grat item. She’s been one of my pre-Readers for the Serial Story. As a roger, I look to her reaction and response as a good measure of the readability of (a) chapter.
8) The Secret Book of Rules(aka the Book of Secret Rules) is a perennial grat item, not only because I rely quite heavily on it, (seriously! have you read any of the preceding?!!), but also because it is an expression of the quality of community here in ‘the blog that Lizzi built’… no, not ‘clearly the asylum is being run by the inmates!’ sense, but in the feeling that, if you work hard (and I don’t care what anyone says, writing and publishing a blog post is hard work), then simply by participating, you are contributing (often in ways unknown) to another person’s life. Maybe in a minor, fleeting, totally-of-no-lasting-consequence way but it is a valued contribution. thanks!
9) damn! went for my big finish only to look down and see that I’m one Item short of the finish line! shit! oh! wait! I got it! ‘Work and not being ill and having shelter from the world (literally and figuratively)…. whoa! high class problems those!
10) …1.3 (see Item 8 if you’re new to the TToT and/or ask one of the co-hostinae)
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FRIST!
Ahhh, that FRIST was so satisfying! That pic of Una should be framed. She’s probably planning just which sprigs of new grass to baptize first!
I concur…
Una…what a prize she is… I bet Phyllis is the perfect proof reader… She has a manner that i think i could hear any criticism from without having to kill her for her honesty… Great delivery… Although i believe you both said she can be quite fierce!!! Lol
Does Phyllis do proofing as a side job? I love what Ivy said about her. I still remember the sweetness with which your shy little Una hid herself in your lap amidst all the attention at Operation Meet the Brit. Precious. This unseasonably warm weather will yield grass at this late date. Good work, Clark. Love the serial story and I am awaiting Chapter 4.
Hey! What’s goin’ on?! Dyanne was FRIST! (congrats little lady lol)
“we clarks, we often don’t tell ourselves all that much about how we feel about ourselves.”
Have to think about that a bit….”
Nice list. Yay to #3 :)
Handsome dog and driveway!
I appreciate your TGC efforts greatly. I need to go finish chapter two of your story!
thank you…. I’m grateful for being a part of a pretty damn cool thing
…cool, working on Chapter 4 hope to have it out this afternoon… (teaser: the action takes place in Mt. Prospect)
^^^ What she said.
I wonder if it’s a permission issue.
the thing about not telling ourselfs everything about how we feel (about our own selfs)?
Whoa, that’s a substantial chunk of property! I envy Una’s room to roam but not the lawn to mow.
yeah… she actually spends most of her time (free from a leash) in the back yard which is sorta fenced in…. but we have to go out first to make sure nothing has wandered in from the surrounding woods, skunks and such, ya know
Our yard is partially fenced and the rest with invisible fencing. Unfortunately, Jackson is too protective to leave him untended in the yard, if he feels he is protecting us from intruders a shock isn’t going to stop him from going after them.
annoying and endearing… lol
That is a great window from which to watch the world.
My comments are always made in love. :)
My daughter and I were having a conversation last night, and funny enough, you and the WD came up. She was describing some things that happened at school, and I said, “Well, Honey, it’s because you’re a scott.” :) She is not exactly happy to know she is so very much like me. She will once she gets older. :)
I’ve never consider them otherwise
lol… very cool!
I’m enjoying your story. I tried to answer your question in a facebook message the other day, but ended up sending a novel of a response. Let me know if my wordiness made things clear as mud.
thank you. no, your response was of great help, my questions tend to be a bit broad and, shall we say, encyclopedic in scope? lol Chapter 4 implies (by Orel’s wife’s first name) that, hopefully that I understood your answer/insight… don’t worry, my questions will only get vaguer as the process continues, ‘the better to acquire information that I did not know at the time I was really looking for’ as the old saying goes!
Shit, I’m behind on the story. How does the time slip away? I’ll get to that this week.
I’d love to hear any feedback (on the story so far)
What a great perch to watch the world go by! Love the photo.
yeah, she is the smallest (of the 3 dogs we’ve had since moving into the house), the sofa (loveseat, actually) has always been there for our guard dogs to protect us, but Una is the only one small enough to sit on the top of the back of the couch.
That lawn is looking mighty good. My Mom’s lawn is looking much better after a second try of reseeding a section. The first time around, the lawn care people planted the seed too early. It was way to hot. The second time around the rains and cooler weather helped the seed do what it was supposed to do.
I’ll need to come back and catch up with your novel. It is great that Phyllis can be such a wonderful help to you, and of course Una keeps life in balance.
thank you, I was worried that I wouldn’t have time to (re)establish that section of grass that mysteriously died out… yes, dogs provide the perfect counter-perspective to the world that, at times, we humans can miss!