Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
I am grateful for:
1) the Secret Book of Rules (aka Book of Secret Rules) of the TToT it’s a way for any and all of us to, from time to time and as the mood may strike us, to put a flashing and/or revolving light on our damn heads and no one will laugh at us (unless, of course, that we picked out a ‘hey ain’t this light funny?’ light)
2) the number Ten …how much of our lives has centered around this small but neat quantity? I’ll tell you… it is not the huge number of times, it’s the huge importance of that which is centered around ’10’ (“…I’m going to count to, close your eyes and count backwards… home many do you think you had… and this many fingers make?” )
3) the internet which permits us to be the people that: we want to be, would hope to be, are afraid that we really are, pray that no one discovers what we are really like, know we can do better, believe that there are worse ways to be, meet the people we would be intimidated by in RL, know that if we just had a minute without that voice in our heads saying the same thing over and over as it has for a lifetime…
4) the eternal (and at times, slightly suggestive and way sexy) Seven GuardVirgins (and to Cyndi for alerting us to their existence)
5) music videos which allow us to not just say something profound/funny/sexy/important/silly but to do it loud!! (3 of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8OOyrPOs0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrhsBYhfgEo6) the simplest of facts: while we all recognize the ‘advisability of being grateful’ and the ‘beneficial effects of gratitude lists’ all of these are a whisper in a hurricane when compared to seeing the effects in people you have come to know… with the added (slightly scottian) benefit of seeing the changes in another before they see it in themselves
7) the Wakefield Doctrine for it’s oddly disturbing, but always impressive insights into the behavior of the people in (my)(your)(their) lives
8) photos… the ones that I put at the top of virtually every Post… now there’s a Post in and of itself… why that photo with that Post? (for those of you who do this photo thing in your own blog know… I’m constantly surprised/delighted/amused/frightened by the end product ….because, on some Posts, the photo comes first and on others it is a followup
9) Summer is finally here!! (ask anyone: they will smile and say, ‘yeah, he does this perspective thing…no, not that perspective thing… this other perspective thing)
10) Secret Rule 1.3 (the first discovered Secret Rule and one of the best!)
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Ahhhh Secret Rule 1.3. We all know that one by now. :) Excellent deployment.
I have often kinda considered your photos to be just a hook – you know – they’re enigmatic and usually have some kind of really intriguing subtext, which just yearns to be investigated.
Talking of sub, I love that Cyndi blessed me (us?) with those seven GuardVirgins. They truly are most fun, and I love watching the co-hosts learning the ritual dances to try to get past them.
Such fun.
WHAT AN AFTERNOON! In fact, WHAT A WEEKEND – the hop has bounced from the page and become Real in people’s lives.
And today people became Real through vidchat, and it was awesome. Thank you so SO much for hosting and envisaging the idea in the first place.
Lizzi
yeah… those photos it’s (now) an integral part of the process of writing posts, but whats cool is that more times that it should be, I am surprised by ‘the effect’ of the photos when viewed in the context of the Post.
the vidchat is so cool… you and Michelle are the reason it made it past the first 2 tries…
I will check with you on ‘the Facebook’ for Jak’s address and thank you and beth for the direction on the color for the next edition of docTee
(damn! I meant to ask zoe if she really would like a hat (not that I have any left but they are kinda fun)
I do not know Secret Rule 1.3. :( Or maybe I do and I don’t know I do.
Mostly came by to say happy first full day of summer, Clark! :)
Lisa
thank you not that I’m seeing fireflies, but the Winter just lost about 539 million pounds (5 trillion stone) on my head.
…when you have a good grab list? and you like every single item and you come up….just…one….item short of the T*? then Secret Rule 1.3 allows the gratitude of completing the list of ten things as a valid item for that…list.
*T (ten)
So it begs the question what is the pic at the top of this post? Familiar but cant place it…
The virgins are cool and all but damn why does the dance keep having to change? I mean , ya figure out a few steps and then POW tomorrow a whole new foxtrot…WTF?
Of course I want a hat! I wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to have someone ask me what it means … not to mention whenever I put on a cap someone inevitably asks “Can I help you sir?” Not as often as the psychics approach but still…You would think I wouldn’t like them…but I do… must be my Clarkiness wanting to hide a bit.
I cant tell you enough how much I am enjoying the vid chats. Im just sorry I missed dirty joke night… although todays were quite good! I have to work on my endurance as Im a bit out of commission as of late and missed the late crew again today… I’ll have to pound the heavy bag a bit more! LOL.
Happy Summer… what color is the sky in your world? lol.
damn! I don’t know the name
(the process usually is google a word or a phrase and hit images and scroll through as many as it take for one to jump and say ‘Me!! Me!)
Wait!! this just in!!! artemisia-gentileschi 61 I think this refers to the artist…
(hey clark, read the whole comment and then Reply)
…well, they need to stay qualified (as GuardsVirgins) so surely changing the dance is a good way to achieve that…
I will get us some hats… oh! wait, were you there when beth arrived? the (new) consensus on the docTees is grey (instead of pink)
lol
uh huh… Black or grey… not the anemic kinda grey though…
Susannah and the Elders… the painting… The artist helped… its a Biblical story of this poor chick that everyone thinks is a trollop but really the old creeps in the village are constantly harassing her for sex. Something like that.
Oh Cripe, I have the TV on…mistake…. one of those heartbreaking SPCA commercials just came on… gotta go shut it off.. see ya!
No – the nice, dark, charcoal-y grey kind.
Today was so fun – loved all the jokes and laughs. Get that heavy bag back and work up to the full 5+ hours with us, ey?
The GuardVirgins have to be tricksy and inventive – it’s tough to have an assignment where all you do is guard a damn book and try to evade TToT co-hosts…for whatever reason.
I just got new gloves… gonna break em in this week …
lol
I also turn the channel not that I don’t have feelings for animals I just don’t approve of assault as a method of rainy funds for a good cause
(she a clark, non?)
Susanne?
In this pic she is definitely a Clark…in the more traditional story I would venture she is a Roger… not the seductress but just doing what is expected of every woman in the herd.
In the interest of secret rule number 17.928 subsection z… get thee to my blog! and Thanks so much…what a lovely gift…the best by FAR this year!
…takes one to know one!*
*you didn’t think I would resort to such sophisticated rhetoric, didja?
Uh yeah kinda…
I like number 3 – nicely said. As for secret rule 1.3 – I’ll have to refer back to previous comments from you – but I think, based on it’s employ here – it’s the one I used before :) Merry Christmas!
Louise
perfect! (we all intuitively recognize the proper use of Secret Rule 1.3!)