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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