Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(Landscape orientation)
Phyllis’s treehouse on a snowy Saturday afternoon.
The trees are a frustrated child’s attempts to draw a straight line, up and down. The Number 1 soft-graphite pencil a not-so-un-witting accomplice in the filling of the page with dark lines. The snow on the ground matches the cloud-painted sky. We choose to see it as the sky, as it appears opposite the colorless ground.
We identify the ground because it supports the one element of color, the treehouse and it’s banner flag appended to the side at an angle.
The flag is a rectangle on end with it’s right edge sliced by gravity on the diagonal. We do see a Labrador-looking puppy in the center of this flag, poised, it might seem to those of us with less mental discipline, to jump to ground and play in the snow.
1) Climate-appropriate change in weather. Makes for interesting photos.
2) Phyllis and Una. Both are the ‘qua’ in my ‘sine qua non’ (being my all time favorite latin phrase)
3) the remarkable depth of writing over to Kristi Campbell’s ‘hop FTSF
4) the opportunity to wrestle with the everyday bindings of routine and, at times, gain enough slack in the life-colored ropes to practice writing, such as this week over to zoe’s Six Sentence Story
5) the Wakefield Doctrine (which, to get all allegorical (or metaphorical or whatever the cool sounding term is), was the bus ticket found at the side of the road one day that has totally taken me to a place I would not have gone.
6) The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) the freedom to write whatever is enjoyable (with the stipulation that: “[w]hen shooting off on a tangent, the basis and a priori justification need be cited or otherwise referenced. Exceptions allowed to the (Rule), if and, conditional on the acquiescence of putative Readers, the writer clearly states, “well, ….because! that’s why!”)
7) Video
8) hey! New(er) Readers and/or TToT participants!! Did you know there’s a (valid) concept referred to as ‘hypo-gratitude’ (or commonly, ‘hypo-grat’) ex. “Hey, it snowed yesterday! That’s a total hypo-grat on my TToT!” (note: as Josie Two Shoes (our hostinae) will remind us, there are no rules. There are, however, shared expectations. And first among these shared expectations is ‘good intent’. So (an) Item of Hypo-gratitudeness should contain an element of humor (whimsy is allowable as substitute)
9) photo (to follow)
10) SR 1.3
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somewhat way back in time… (yes, as a matter of fact, I did wear bell-bottom pants but did not wear a fringe jacket)
About clarkscottroger
my yellow in this case is not so mellow…
Greeting card material right there in that excellent photo! The Treehouse after a snowdust day. Lovely.
#3 No shit, right? :)
#5 We are all the better for it.
P.S. As I briefly considered completing my own TToT this morning, the hypo-grat thing came to mind. It is a lovely addition to the “rules”, so thanks for reminding us.
And if this has not taken too long…I may be FRIST!
FRIST is the correct appellation for your comment
I am thankful for your landscape orientations. Love number one on this list and love how number two is always making this list for you every week.
yeah… I look at them as a part of but somehow distinct from the listing of oTs
Good read, good read. :) We got an unexpected snow dump, but just as well since I have the flu. lol. I’m glad to see a photo of the treehouse and greetings to Phyllis and Una. :) I hope you had a chance to enjoy the snow! I think I’m going to go take another nap. Haha.
oh man, the flu? Fluids and sleep? Seems to be a non-fail approach to most illness. (Is this the type with bouts of fever? Man, that was always the worst part…what I used to call ‘fever creeps’… a remarkably bad mental state usually occurring 11:30 to 1:30 and then 3:00 or so)
Enough of the therapeutic Replying sleep and fluids and then, saltines and ginger ale.
Yes…fever creeps. That’s a funny but fitting term. It WAS a bad mental state. I remember asking John if I was delirious at some point…lol
sometimes it’s fun and interesting, except when it’s not (delirium, that is)
I hope you feel better soon.
See?! See? Video at 25 seconds forward…they have come to pay homage to the “Rock” :D
that is true
That flag on the tree house is just the greatest. Of course anything having to do with yellow labs seals the deal. :-)
Were all those turkeys on your place? And I got all excited because we had two on the property one time. lol
yeah, out of the woods into the side yard. funny, haven’t seen any for a couple of years, then this year… had to be 15 or 20 of them.
It is always interesting to me how similar themes emerge in posts, written independently and from different parts of the world. I’ve read 2 posts so far, and both mention snow. I also wrote about snow–and quail (not turkeys). (As an aside, apparently a group of turkeys is a rafter, and a group of quail is a bevy–thanks, Google!)
rafter!! I did not know that one… (whatever must the root be for that particular choice)…yeah that occasional synchronicity always cool to witness
Your thankfuls always leave me feeling happy.
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Ah, Hendrix. YES. Thanks huge for the mention and shout-out and overall awesomeness that you are. Also? We saw turkeys in Tennessee over Thanksgiving! I thought they were vultures at first but nope. Turkeys! We were blown away!
and they’re fricken huge!