Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Weekends1. A job that involves working every/any day of the week2. A moment in bed in the morning before the day begins3. A secondary scottian aspect4. A new toaster5. The clean slate environment of the blogosphere6. An appreciation of the unusual7. A dog to greet me8. Having our new Wakefield Doctrine docTees finally be ready to ship9. Sending Wakefield Doctrine tee shirts to people around the globe10.
Alright, so what is it? Thankful or Grateful? (our friends at ‘the Wikipedia’ define ‘thankful as : “…a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.” while a search for (a definition of the word) gratitude yields the following:
Gratitude is not the same as indebtedness. While both emotions occur following help, indebtedness occurs when a person perceives that they are under an obligation to make some repayment of compensation for the aid. The emotions lead to different actions; indebtedness can motivate the recipient of the aid to avoid the person who has helped them, whereas gratitude can motivate the recipient to seek out their benefactor and to improve their relationship with them.
* and what does the Wakefield Doctrine have to say about zombies and/or the Zombie Apocalypse? Two things: a) scotts would appear, at first blush**, to be the best equipped to survive a zombie attack, and they would, as long as they did not run out of ammo or break a heel and fall down, b) clarks actually will, be able to survive the up-coming humanity game-changer… for a number of reasons, not the least of which is, we can decide to not resist the overwhelming horde attack and pretend to be one of them, ‘passing as being zombish’ if you will, until we can make our escape and 3) yeah, rogers… stand on the roof top with the brain-eating mob on the street and yell, “hey! look isn’t that Ken Burns down the street there!!” and you’ll be able to waltz out the front door, safe as can be… until the crowd realizes that Ken never actually got bitten by a zombie
1) a certain suspension of expectations/demands as to how much energy we put into our activities
2) being in business for myself allows me to take whatever time off I would like, being in business for myself, of course means I hardly ever do…lol
3) just before the body gets up to ‘stand up now’ mode… when the brain is ‘still in it’s pajamas’ (the Title of today’s Post came in one those precious moments of sanctioned insanity)
4) cause otherwise, I would totally never hit publish on this… interesting take on a Gratitude List
5) if I have to explain, you would not get it
6) this is a place of the ultimate “if I could, I would…”
7) lol
8) dogs, are, as I constantly remind people, perfect lifeforms
9) they are getting even better…
10) Kristi and Considerer! watch those damn mailboxes! (hey Christine… Tracy yo! as it works out… I only got 2 ‘scotts‘ tees printed this run… you’re both welcome to wear one of these nearly-free Official Doctrine apparel lemme know)
** yeah, like a scott is gonna ever blush