Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
…and welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ blog hop.
The idea-child (to organize a blog hop with ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ as the central theme), of ‘the Considerer’. Her idea of a Saturday blog hop offers to demonstrate an aspect of the internet that is truly remarkable. To have a community created by the thoughts and ideas (shared by) people from all over the planet… coming into existence for a day…spreading outwards through the blogosphere, passed along, modified enhanced then to fading from view…only to return again, different yet the same. How cool is that?
and…and!! there are 9 co-hosts! (the afore-mentioned Considerer), and
A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall
A Woman’s Place
Bringing the Sunshine
Finding Ninee
Icansaymama
Shoved to Them
Steps into Parenthood
the Wakefield Doctrine
Each week…That’s about it for me, for this Post. While familiar of with use and value of compiling a gratitude list, creating a list is an interestingly arduous task! Not that I am ungrateful, ( non-grateful?? anti-grateful?? hypo-grateful??? lol), for the things in my life, I have not engaged in a formal exercise before this…I will, without a doubt, be sharing my thoughts and impressions as the weeks progress.
And I am also a big advocate of bloghops… especially for those of us who spend a lot of time writing a blog. The hop (like this one right here) is an opportunity to ‘get out… meet new people, read blogs that you might not otherwise come into contact with… so add your blog to the place below that says sign up here… it’ll be fun.List of 10 things about/within/comprising my life today 06/08/2013 that I feel grateful for:
coming to know interesting people such as Considerer, simply because there is no way I would have met her, were it not for her blog
having the time available to write this post
seeing examples of Posts as written by the other co-hosts
having a family (wife and dog*)
having known the perfect dog…Ola
living in a climate that is only bi-annually of intolerable climate (lol)
the 3 or 4 years spent on fishing boats
the friends that I have
the enemies that I do not have (at least not in large numbers)
the invitation from Considerer to co-host this here bloghop here
Now the hard part! There’s supposed to appear some code for a button and an invitation to join us… all I need to do is get it right…. hold on….
Number 1:
Number 2-9
- the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules)…
- 9 co-hostinae,
- Work that allows/requires driving through fairly interesting geographies and explore old, odd and (sometimes) semi-dangerous houses
- Phyllis and home….
- living near enough the ocean to go there whenever the mood strikes me/requires/tempts
- Seven Guard Virgins (yeah, all of the them…even if there is a certain favorite)
- SBoR/BoSR Rule 1.3
- …. hey! you want to hear about Christine when I first met Lizzi? (yeah, that story again!) In any event… I was Commenting at Considerings the odd way that I do when I recognize a clark and immediately write like I’ve known the person my whole life (which, if you understand the Wakefield Doctrine, you’ll realize that I sorta did)….anyway, not long after I started hanging out at considerings, I received the following Comment, like, totally out of left field from some kind of farming site! the name did not ring a bell, but I recognized a scottian friend being protective, instantly:
Submitted on 2013/05/24 at 11:41 pm
I have been seeing your comments on Considerer’s posts, and was a bit curious as to what the clark/roger/scotts you mention means. Now that I’m here, I thought I had it figured out. I think. I do believe I’m a scott. But then I read this post, and got confused all over again. I’ll keep trying. :)
( lol…. I liked her immediately, of course)
Number 10: Lizzi for this here bloghop here. Yes, there are 9 co-hostinae (and a number of hostinae emerita …as can be seen in the first TToT post above), however, as my Latin friends (¿Alguien por favor decirle a Clark que si bien estamos de América Latina, no hablamos América … Aye Carumba! mi amigo !!) would say, ‘sine qua non, binyons‘.
Sure, now it’s easy enough to participate in a grat bloghop like this now, however, allow me to share my memory of reading ‘considerings’ when it first showed up in the ‘sphere. I first met Lizzi at the FTSF bloghop, she wrote….er interesting FTSF posts and, naturally, I liked her. I saw a fellow clark, of course. It seems like, maybe a few weeks after I started reading considerings, Lizzi started doing a gratitude exercise (can’t recall at who’s suggestion). A series of daily Posts, listing the things for which she was grateful. Ha! Lizzi didn’t make up the idea for the TToT herself!!
What she did do herself that is fairly mind-boggling, is, she stuck with it. By herself.
(For newer Readers: hard as it might be to believe, but at the time I’m referencing, ‘considerings’ got maybe 2…3 comments per Post.)
And, as some of us who were there may recall, things were not going that well in her life at that time, yet Lizzi stuck with her commitment. That’s why this bloghop is as successful as it is. The internet is chock full ‘o people who will write 1000 words telling you what you should in order to improve your life. Our host/founderette, as the old saying goes, ‘walks the walk’.
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frist of 100?
holy shit! you’re totally am/is….are!! FRIST among FRIST! ( Kwanza kati Frise as our Swahilli friend might say)
NO WAY! WAY!
I love the photo on your Home page… you look downright Freudian, but we all know otherwise as you are purely Wakefieldian. I was not with this hop from the start. I dont know when I started I have to go look that up… it was a whole blog ago, although depending upon where I type from I am still Zoe here… sigh… whatever.
sometimes times a blog is just a blog… the people who give life/reality to these things are the important thing, of course!
Well said, Sigmund.
Lizzi is an inspiration, isn’t she? I don’t think she realizes the extent of her influence.
T’isn’t just ME though is it – it’s all of us. I couldn’t do this alone.
true dat…. thanks for the co-hostinationing….
Three cheers for the 100th TTOT. And one or two for Una. And you. And everyone else who makes this so great. Today, I’m a Scott.
lol… the cool thing about our little personality theory, we have that (potential) within all of us, it’s just a question of allowing ourselves
EXCUSE ME it WAS my own idea! It was one I did as a teenager (I’ve told you this but will allow you to not remember every precise detail about my life) when I was depressed and needed things to get me through to the next day. So I started doing them out loud on the blog, and then people liked it and started joining in, so we made the hop.
I love hearing you tell the story about Christine. That was the time I first realised that she genuinely was friends :)
yeah… it’s funny, when I (finally) found the comment (the basis of my Christine story)… it still ‘read’ the way it did the very first time… what a Doctrine!
A fine tribute here, Clark. What a wonderful thing this has been – the TToT and all the offshoots of it. The friendships, understanding the Wakefield Doctrine (most days), the 1000Speak for Compassion group…and so much more.
Glad Una made it on the list – love the “walk” videos always.And of COURSE the book and the virgins. Duh.
ripples, yo… totally all about the ripples!
Here’s to stick-to-itiveness! Especially when it brightens the day of so many.
I could n’t agree more… the persistence and perseverance is the key to (any) effort to self-imporve oneself
I’m all grumpy now because you can go to the ocean any time you want to.
Signed,
Landlocked in the Midwest
yeah, but you get to ride through endless fields of wheat…and those rolling prairie landscapes and…. yeah, you’re right, an ocean is a cool thing to have nearby!
Do you have that first comment of mine framed or something that you can whip it out and quote it with amazing frequency? :) I do not regret my curiosity (that you call protectiveness). All of the marvelousness that has come from Lizzi’s brain…clarks certainly have an important role to play in this world. I will forever be grateful for all of the friends I’ve met thanks to this blog hop.
Believe it or not, no!! I should, but I had to read every Comment on every Post written before the beginning of the TToT to find it again. Not that onerous, just had to scroll through them all, backwards, looking for your name.
But, hey! now that you mention it thats not such a bad idea idea! (In all selfishness, it’s not only an heart-warming story, but it’s also very illustrative…. the advanced students (of our Doctrine) who have not already heard the story and have not yet met you, I love to spring the story on them… they yell ‘she’s a scott!!’ every time and we both feel good.)
In all seriousness, not only is protectiveness-characterised-by-direct-and-fearless-challenge a very admirable quality, but, much as with Cesar Milan, my reaction to ‘the challenge’ was simply to laugh and enjoy meeting an unknown friend….
I love number one! It put a smile on my face.
I live right on the shore of Lake Erie with less than a five minute walk to the beach when the dogs are looking for a swim. I love being so close and can’t imagine not living near water. Even when the bad parts of living near Lake Erie happen – Mayflies, shad flies, and spiders large enough to eat mice for breakfast.
I hear that the (Great Lakes) are big enough to not be able to see the other side… which sounds pretty cool, we do not have freshwater bodies that large here in RI
All of our dogs, with the exception of Una (of current video fame) totally got off on going to the beach… Ola, our first dog, used to start pawing at the dashboard when we got within scent-range of the ocean (which for a dog, is like a half a mile!).
I hate spiders.
hahaha I also love this hop and chose to use it as my thankful, worth much more than 10! Not just b/c I didn’t have much time, but also because it’s so true.
That comment about “I’ve figured it out. I think….” is EXACTLY how I felt when I first found the Doctrine as well. But you know from the Scottish post I wrote, and also from knowing. We’re all, all of us, all the things.
you guys (scotts) are so much fun… seriously! and, for a non-socially confident person, I’m glad I can account for how instantly comfortable I am around your people… ball-busters that you folks are… (I say that in a loving and respectful way….) lol
I still haven’t out the Doctrine. I have high hopes that by the time TToT is at 150 weeks I may have a better grasp, and by week 200 I will have it on lock. All over the internet people are commenting on going to the ocean this week. Must be spring! Thank you for your continued co-hosting this hop. I love it and and grateful that is exists.
it is a pretty amazing thing, this ‘hop. (don’t tell anyone, but I’m amazed that I’ve stayed so consistent with the requirements and demands of hostihood*….
*not a real word…. I hope!
Congrats to you, Clark, for being one of the originals and one who’s still with it!
hey thanks for being one of the 10 co-hostinae I can’t imagine myself still participating in this amazing thing without the support of you guys
Some things change, others never do. Here is to the wonderful constants in our lives!!