Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
The week we will start both with the first Item (of thankful) and the ‘raison d’être’ for this weekend’s TToT Post. (Well, I’ll explain just what the hell I mean by that, and no, I cannot simply say ‘here’s 10 things and a buncha pitchas’)
1) I’m grateful for the symmetry of the worldviews, (for those of us aware of such things). I’m referring to zoe’s Pictorial Post of last week that. It came to mind as I was, not-quite-consciously-trying-to-figure-out-what-the-hell-I-was-going-to-do-for-a-TT0T-Post-this-weekend. I thought, ‘well here I am, driving around for the entire afternoon, maybe I can do something clever with photos’. ..and I was all, ‘hell yeah!’
2) the subtitle to this TToT Post refers to the various bodies of water you would have been able to see out your window if you were with me yesterday afternoon.
3) I’m not certain that this Post is going to work quite the way I envisioned it. If it does… I’ll be rather grateful to z (and the others in this ‘hop who regularly employ photos to enhance and support their TToT posts)
4) Nope! ain’t gonna work! I’ll be out of gratitude items way before I run out of pictures of the view through the passenger side window of my car.
5) Might as well get ten items down, then I figure out what to ^*^# do with this forma…. oh, damn! yeah! …I am very grateful for the technology, both hardware and software, that allows me to take interesting photos as I drive around in the course of my work day.
6) I am actually quite grateful for either a) hardcopy maps or, 2) my brain that did not let itself be pulled down a frustrating path. (Yesterday, my travels took me to East Overshoe, CT. A town I last visited about 5 years ago. Before I set out for the day, I looked at google maps online…(right down to street level, cool in a creepy way). I thought I knew where the house was. It wasn’t. I drove around a bit (which in a rural area can surely use up the time), no luck. I thought, ‘that’s why I have a phone (and a tablet) ! lets just pull up the map’. No Signal. So I drove in search of a signal. No Luck. Feeling chagrined (and a bit pissed off), I resigned myself to having to make the trip again the next day. As I was looking over my shoulder out the back window, in the only driveway for miles around, my eye caught sight of a large-format, plastic-spiral-bound book on the backseat floor. My old map book! A once indispensable tool-of-the-trade in the real estate business, there it was, looking a bit tattered and frayed…. I had a way to find the house and I didn’t have to drive 35 minutes back to cell range.
7) I am also grateful for the quality in my brain, personality, or clarklike worldview that resulted in; my taking the book (from the back seat), opening it to the appropriate Town, and before I started squinting to read the tiny street names, doing that odd 2 finger spreading thing that enlarges the print. At least 5 times. I started swearing at the book (while laughing…there in my car, alone, by the side of the road, on the outskirts of East Overshoe, CT) god, I crack myself up, sometimes.
8) The Home front yard landscape project is complete. At least the part where someone else does the work. Now we have to keep the dirt watered so that the grass, hidden underneath will grow and turn the front yard all green and such.
9) Very grateful for the discussions that have been popping up around the Doctrine (in the Comment threads). It is both challenging, gratifying and enjoyable. Often surprising, (to me), how well-grounded in the principles of this here Wakefield Doctrine many Readers are.
10) I thought to end today’s list with a hypo-grateful item. Specifically, my disappointment in not being able to format my ‘passenger side window’ photos, the way that I had originally imagined it. This is a rather clarklike form of disappointment. No! wait! This week’s video post tried to explain the concept of ‘manifesting’ as an integral part of the Doctrine, lets use this disappointment as an example to illustrate this concept.
So I had plans (for the future) and I was disappointed. Happens to everyone, right? Of course it does! The importance of ‘manifesting’ in the use of the Doctrine is predicated on accepting that this ubiquitous emotional-circumstance is a different thing for each of the 3 personality types. Not simply: a clark reacts to differently or a scott responds to the let down one way or even the roger feels such-and-so about it. It is the same, but different for each of the three by virtue of ‘how the three personality types relate themselves to the world around them. Here:
- a clark is said to ‘eat their futures’, this is meant to imply that anticipation is so very highly accentuated, that when the (future) realty finally occurs, a clark feels like they’ve been cheated or deprived of something that we’ve worked for and, even earned!
- a scott on the other hand, does not spend all that much time in the future anticipation phase of our illustration here. They, by and large, will ‘roll with the punches’…”hey! lets have fun with this anyway!! Hey!” ( Try this: she drags the antelope that she brought down, across the savannah about 4 miles in the noonday sun, back to her pride. No sooner does she throw it down in front of the hungry pack, that the possum playing gazelle jumps up and bounds away. The lion(ess) doesn’t sit and bemoan the unfairness of it all. hell no! she looks around, (if anyone is even beginning to smirk, there is a paw-across-the-muzzle in their immediate future) otherwise, it’s ‘oh well back to the hunt’.
- a roger…well, one word: ‘Miss Haversham’
That’s it for today.
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I am horribly bad at the watering the part of lawn care.
The views out the window. Such beauty! I may be slightly partial to waterviews.
I too have tried to make print bigger with that motion. I too laugh at myself about that. Its better to laugh.
“Its better to laugh.”
totally agree
I’m sorry if the photos didn’t quite work as you envisioned, but I enjoyed seeing bodies of water.
We have a Thomas Guide around somewhere, but I don’t think it’s in the car where it might actually be useful. LOL about you trying to enlarge the print. I usually just tap the top of my head to see if my glasses are there.
Kristi
yeah, though I am partial to the ocean, ponds and lakes are good too
I do so love, love, love a map! OMG I did that finger-spready-thing on a DSM-V hardcopy this am… and totally cracked myself up after doing it… dope!!!
Even without what you thought was enough pics… they were nice… all that water is never bad in my book, but I totally get youre feeling cheated by a thwarted plan!
zoe
yeah…by great plan was to get the wp to word-wrap the photos… sort of embedded and the test would be one block of text (with items numbered within)… oh well
I expect a picture of your front yard, so I can get some inspiration. The scaffolding came down this week, and our house looks more and more like a house people could live in :-)
Stephanie
cool (about the scaffolding)… will get some photos up tomorrow…not much to see, as the grass in not in, but the walkway came out nice
I think your pics turned out great. You really shouldn’t be taking them whilst driving though :)
shh! don’t tell Christine…. she’s already on my case for not wearing a seatbelt! lol
YOU DON’T WEAR A SEATBELT?!
Heheheh I really like the idea of you trying to 2-finger-enlarge the for real map!
Who’s Miss Haversham. And yeah, a scott would do WAY better with a lost gazelle than a clark.
Miss H. is crazy old Brit from Great Expectations….pretty batpoop crazy.
that’s from the DSM-V, I assume
lol
One of the few carryovers from DSM-IV
lol
yeah… she’d pissed off, but then got out and hunt down another, while (the clark) was still trying to figure out what went wrong!
I can picture you fiddling around in your car and grabbing the notebook and trying to do the two finger enlarger… oh that is hilarious! Beautiful bodies of water you got to see on your long long day of driving!!
Chris
yeah…even as I picked up the map become I remembered how hard it is to read the print on some of them…funny how changes become part of our worlds… yeah, some good looking geography
I still love a good old fashioned road map! I think about how my daughter and stepson don’t know how to read one and wonder if they are even available anymore. Your post made me chuckle this week and the water views are fantastic!
I totally agree. I have always had a good sense of direction, but I have a feeling that too much dependence on our devices for getting us from point a to point b is only going to around this basic skill, ya know/
Maps are awesome. Map skills are a lost art. I am so thankful that my Kidzilla has pretty good ones, especially for a six year old.
OK, based on these descriptions here…I’m none of the above. None of those descriptions would be my way of associating myself to the world around me. Miss Havisham for Roger? Hmm. Don’t see it. I mean maybe because she’s so freaking forlorn about her lost love. Like Zoe said – batshit crazy.
But then again, maybe that’s just because I find Great Expectations very near the top of my least favorite books ever.
Have to say that maps came in handy when I was on a visit somewhere yesterday…..but yes, it takes a little out of the sheer fun of just looking!
Michelle
I think I know what you mean…when driving somewhere for the first time, I will actually study the map, to not only picture the path, but memorize the street names that mark the approach of the street I am trying for…helps when driving alone.
You know, Clark, I think you might just be the poster child for things not to do while driving! Nice pics though! (In my own defense of the sunset pic on my blog I snapped while driving, I never took my eyes off the road!)
Sandy
lol
…I will say, if you saw the number of photos that I threw away, you would realize how little I am looking at what I am trying to photograph! (scene in car: ‘Damn! water coming up!! get the phone! hurry up!’) Using my phone as a camera is not the best (for me) as the button is not always where my finger is as the subject comes into range.
I was hoping to see a photo of the landscaping. I like your “view through the window” idea. It’s difficult to capture good photos at 90 miles an hour with a camera fastened to your head.
Hey! today’s (or in the context of this Comment) tomorrow’s Post has a photo of the landscaping. I think I might have been better served with before and after photos, but the lawn and walkaway and driveway are in greatest contrast if you saw the front year more than 12 months ago when it was mostly large pine trees.
can’t find any before pictures mostly because we never paid much attention to the front yard, only the backyard where the we would play with Una or Bella (before that) or Ola before all
How old school of you to use a real map!
I take pictures all the time, whether I’m driving or sitting in the doctor’s exam room or any number of other places. Then I post them on facebook or instagram or on my blog, because they make me happy.
I would love living where I could see water like that every day.