Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(“you know, clark, if you would only put half the effort that you put into these photos on our ‘walks’ , into your work, you might be surprised at how much easier and less stressful it will become. No, don’t say it, you’re right… you drive and I’ll look out the window, we do this part of the week…perfectly”)
(Here! lets try something different1 and take the 1st paragraph of the 3rd TToT Post and copy the initial 5 lines!!2 Won’t that be fun??!!3)
I feel like I should do better intros to these things – does that make sense? After all, we’re all about thankfulness in the midst of joy, adversity, the busyness and the sheer bloody BORINGNESS of everyday life, and yet so often I forget to mention, right at the start, how important it is to REMEMBER to be thankful. I’m thankful for thankfulness because it often saves me from becoming ridiculous, and if it doesn’t do that, then at least it reminds me to buck my ideas up and pay attention to the good things and good people in my life.
Here’s to thankfulness, in all its glitterysparklygoodness.Here’s to getting it right this time, and making it ABUNDANTLY clear what’s going on.
1) I (remain) grateful for inclusion in the company of the co-hostinae of the TToT. As the demands on my time increases on the work/real-life side, it’s heartening to know that there is someplace in the world that I can write a post like today’s and not be (overly) concerned at the response.
2) …speaking of Posts, I felt good about a couple of Posts (at the Doctrine) this week. Well, as good as I am capable of. (This last is not excessive self-criticism, simply a matter of watching my own approach to this blog change and develop over the years and seeing the way that, as we’re so fond of saying, I relate myself to it (the Wakefield Doctrine blog), is still, by and large, and on the whole a positive thing)
3) Work: at once an item of gratitude and hypo-gratitude, it’s there, every day. Funny about work and blogs, as much as this Doctrine and blogs and people I know forms the center of my RL, I am constantly having to maintain a balance between work and blogging. I am not so good at balancing the time I devote to work and to non-work. Fortunately, what I do for work is never boring, always interesting (even when it’s horrifyingly stressful), but I find that the mindset that I have when writing blog posts is not the best mindset for accomplishing what I need to accomplish in the work world.
4) Phyllis and Una and the homeplace… it, though I often leave first thing in the morning and Phyllis returns last thing in the evening, is still a refuge
5)
(to follow up on the video clark’s claim of three items):
- technology
- canines
- ego
9) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules), even though everyone’s Post is usually interesting and relatable, the enthusiasm and creativity expressed when a participant in the TToT finds themselves needing the help that the BoSR/SBoR is there to provide… it’s just plain cool. It (the Book) is a manifestation of the unique sense of community that has become a part of this, ‘the blog that Lizzi created’….and there ain’t nothin out there like it.
10) speaking of the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) …lol you know, I usually invoke SR 1.3 (English ed. 3.1) for Number 10. But, I also want to give a ‘shootout’ to our Seven GVs… especially, you know who…
Join the Ten Things of Thankful Facebook Group
* the days get longer here in the northern hemisphere until the 22nd of June and then, alas they proceed to get shorter and darker and more and more winter like (the quantity of light available to us in a given day being very much a part of what makes winter so….wintery)
1) hey Dyanne…zoe no giggling back there… it’s not like I’m always striving for the …’the road less traveled’ in these Posts! (yeah, sometimes it’s ‘the road not even hinted at in any map I ever saw!’)
2) semi arbitrary algorithm except for the odd and hopefully prime numbers
3) well, yes, fun is a subjective experience… that sounds like a valid item for this list!! thank you to whoever out there thought that!4
4) of course you exist in my mind out there! and no, it’s not (overly) weird to think about what the Readers will be thinking while writing, we all do that….don’t we? Now, if it’s weird you want, try this idea: everyone lives in their own perfect world. (Why, yes, I am quite prepared to defend that assertion! But that’s for another Post! We are reaching the footnote-to-content-equilibrium-point, anymore and this Post simply won’t make any sense!)
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Frist.
…frist!
Yes, I know all about cognitive dissonance. It is one of the few things I remember from Psych 101. You could call it life. Funny, when you posted the winter solstice and said how the days would be getting longer and longer I felt wonderfully uplifted out of the doldrums of winter. But saying the days are going to start getting shorter in a few weeks, has a sad, urgency about it.
you know, a part of me just felt guilty for writing that, but then there is another part of me that says, ‘hey! it’s true but the message for you, clark, is: do not waste a moment of these days (which in my personal case, wasting involves dreaming and planning and striving to understand the best way to enjoy the moment*)
* it is one of the tragedies of the world of the Outsider to not immediately recognize the irony of this goal
I’m enjoying the fact that the days are going to be getting longer for a few weeks still. :)
But…I might actually have a post to share this week!
cool! (new) posts are good
Finding the blogging/real life balance is always tricky.
yeah, and, for me, it’s not just a matter of scheduling. (This might not make sense), but the very frame of mind I have is different for work as it is for blogging…very different!*
sort of … maybe, no very different
lol
Yeah, that opening quote… I could have sworn the term “sparkly goodness” was yours and yours alone… snort!!! lol!!! Cracking myself up again! I miss seeing or hearing from you… I was thinking he must be working too much lately cuz I dont even get the ride home call anymore…. Im feeling neglected…not really ….I did notice you’re missing though so that’s nice right? Especially for a Clark who doesn’t want to be noticed while at the same time refuses to be overlooked! I will catch up to you at some point… poor you (lol)!
just went back to the walking una vid…. two killer whale moments! BONUS!
lol… I knew you would get a kick out of it!
(hey there’s a thought!* what about a live TToT… on a Saturday (or Sunday) morning… Lizzi and them continental types would be in there afternoons… most everyone else (I believe is in Eastern or Central time).
just a thought ( which as we know, for clarks, is a perfect illustration of the expression ‘coals to Newcastle’)
*no chronological moment
hahahaha! OMG! “Coals to Newcastle” one of my favorite sayings! and yes that would certainly land in the Newcastle coalstove i suspect.
Ask in the group and see who wants in. I miss our vidchats.
the group being ‘you and me an them’? or the group that is in the Facebook (which is a larger and equally interesting bunch of lifeforms.)
HA! You sneaky thief!
I just lost entirely track of what time/day it was.
I can’t remember the rest. There may have been…
what did the 7GV?
Vidchat would be cool. Saturday easier than Sunday if it’s morning for us US continentals.
I’ve been scarce in my reading over here (so if you’ve been sparse in the posting that works, no?) because Life.
Home as a refuge, no matter how the timing and schedules fall…I feel that way about here as well. There is nothing so grand as the world inside these walls with the ones I love. And especially cool when our three Rotten Cats are entertained by a certain substance sent by Ms. Ivy Walker. :D
Clark. You aren’t linked up?
lol
(damn! totally forgot…hey, I’ve only done this 102 times!)
My dogs don’t cry like that when we come home, one cries on the way to grammas because it is his absolute favorite place to go – I’m sure that has nothing to do with grampa adding meat scraps to his dinner there. The other one cries when we go to the beach, he loves to go swimming and once the gardening and the weather get themselves sorted it will probably be a daily thing for him until Octoberish.
Yeah
Ola did the crying thing as we got near the beach (near being defined as in ‘ smelling ocean air distance’ which is like a half a mile away)… different types of crying…that one being translated as ‘oh boy! Ohboy! Ohboy! Hurry up hurry up!!!’
Lol
I was just thinking about how close we are getting to the longest day of the year. Not cool that it is in the middle of June, just when we’re all getting settled into having a fun summer.
I’m glad you enjoy your job, even through the occasional stress. I imagine it is way better than the fishing you used to do.
yeah (I get looks when I announce that ‘Summer is over’ on the first day of Summer)
mostly yes, except there are times when I would totally rather be on a fishing boat than have to deal with clients when the thing that would never happen…happens lol
First time here, so yes I am confused as to which one you might be! Guess I will have to do some creeping around your blog! :)
Welcome
Thank you for the ‘prompt for today’s Post! (you’ll see…. no! nothing bad!)
Oh Clark. I was following your post and the sweet dog then you mentioned the Book of Secret Rules and once again I feel like I’ve stumbled into Hogwarts or something. Yall crack me up. Does the pup get to go with you to the beach? I know he would love it. Great week to you.
Jamie
…of all the dogs we’ve had (Ola and Bella), Una is the only one who is not so fond of water (though she likes the beach for the people, she is a very friendly dog). As to the BoSR/SBoR, it is everything such a book should be, given the semi-magical place the virtual world is… seriously, I wonder at the people who get all ‘the world is this and the world is that and they are awful’…when, here we are, real people in a world (provided we have the imagination and emotional resources) that can be anything, just as we can be anyone! cool, no?
(we, all of us, eventually find ourselfs in need of a Book of Secret Rules (aka a Secret Book of Rules), even if only in the process of writing a TToT Post…can’t wait to see what you come up with when you find yourself looking for just the right Rule for your situation
Clark I love the glitterysparklygoodness of this linkup too. Thanks for co-hosting and all that you do. ;)
entirely my pleasure
Dogs; yes they are the perfect life form. I don’t have any of my own but we are still daycare providers for Franklin. I love that dog. I actually didn’t have to rely on the Book of Secret Rules/Secret Book of Rules this past week. I think I may be getting the hang of this TToT thing! I hope that you, Phyllis, and Una have a wonderful week.
the Book is fun, dogs are excellent
(yours is always a fun TToT post)
I’m still laughing over your use of “glitterysparklygoodness”.