Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(well, because absolutely nothing says decadent excess better than a Faberge egg)
Come join Our Miss Lewis and the gang, as we go all Pasche on your reading selfs. More universal than most of the Big Three (Holidays), Easter is surely a time of reflection and celebration. (That, of course, is out of respect to my co-hostinae who value this Time in Spring). I will not demure for effect, but it is the way of the Doctrine to avoid making fun of people and the world. Unless, of course, we’re talking about:
- scotts and they’re all about the ribbing and the joking and, if any of the three can ‘take a joke’ it’s our scottian friends. Fair warning, you better be prepared to get more than you receive, if you decide to invite them on that ride!
- clarks busting a clark is not a bad thing, and, for the record clarks totally get into the ribbing. That being said, you need to make it clear that a) you are joking and 2) that you’re joking because you think of them as your friend and you’re not, like, secretly making fun of them. Do that, and they’re gonna disappear faster than fish in a koi pond on the approach of a 7 year old boy
- rogers… well, they’re fair game. clarks will often be tempted to try to clue rogers in on the joke ahead of time, but that always backfires. scotts, on the other hand, enjoy making fun of rogers even though the roger has little or no clue what’s going on (at that moment. unfortunately, once they do get a clue, the one to suffer reprisal will be the nearest clark)
Enough of this! One with the List! Ten! Things!
1) That this TToT bloghop is still going strong, now in it’s 9th year!* Lizzi built well and chose well (her co-hostinae)
2) I’m totally happy to find myself surprised that Spring showed up, this week past. Regular Readers are aware that Winter is not my favorite time, or year, or Season or State of Mind and so, to hear myself say, “what? First Day of Spring? really?” with the surprise (implied by the question mark appending my little self-quote), well, who would have thought?
3) End of the ‘Blog Dominion‘ (or, the first installment, at any rate), with the Epilog to be published this week. I will interpret the calls for an Epilog as indications of interest in the story to become a series, rather than a sign that the ending (in Chapter 23) as being inconclusive or uncertain.
4) Thanks (again) to Kristi and Dyanne for encouragement to make ‘Almira’ the next project in my ‘Why not commit to writing a Chapter per week of a story that you are discovering as you write each Chapter’. This being the second Installment in my Illustration and Guide to using the Wakefield Doctrine as an aid to self-improvement, (Titled: ‘Making Life More UnComfortable: ‘Hurry, You’re Running Out of Time” )
5) ‘Almira‘ ( subtitle: ‘there’s always more to the story’) will begin a week from tomorrow (or the following Monday morning) and I’l post it to jukepop.
6) Six Sentence Story (not only good practice, but enjoyable reading, if you haven’t tried it yet, you totally need to go there this week coming and ask zoe if you can join the ‘fun’)
7) Una and Phyllis: both good.
8) Work was good this week, as I had an opportunity to catch myself making my job more difficult than it need be. (This is, of course, of interest pretty much only to clarks), but there came a couple of occasions when the idea that ‘I’m responsible for how I feel’ was very real and I made a choice and things worked out better than they might have. Nothing earth-shaking in the grand scheme of things, but I saw the difference, I knew for a fact, (at that moment), that I did have a choice, which (at that same moment) altered my personal reality for just a moment.) As Tony Montana said to Frank Lopez, “It was fun”
9) Hey, I know it’s Easter Saturday, but the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Live (call-in) will be on the line tonight between 8:00 and 8:45 pm EDST call us! (phone number on the homepage of this here blog here)
10) SR 1.3 (and don’t even think about what the Seven Guard Virgins have planned for tonight! No, serially! Ask zoe! now, I’m not one to ‘talk out of school’, but those Beings totally know how to ring in the Spring (if you know what I mean)…. New Readers? the Seven Guard Virgins (awareness of this aspect of the TToT is courtesy of Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia) provide the following for everyone here at ‘Ten Things’, they (in part, not limited to): stand guard, hold court, order pizza, turn off the headlights on dark country roads, start the party, end the party, hold out, come across and generally make this the best bloghop in the whole damn ‘sphere! Now, this might make little or no sense, but it’s all there in the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)….ask anyone! And have the happiest Easter that you can.
why, no! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with sticking a ‘get-stuck-in-your-head-all-day’ music video… you don’t have to listen (but, you’d be a fool not to).
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Frist.
FRIST you are!
I’ll have my eggs, Faberge, please. Can’t wait for the Epilogue and Almira.
Epi-log’ epi-log!!! Almira also sounds promising.
…ah yes! to horror of 1 week deadlines for Chapters to account for a story that I do not (yet*) know!
guess that’s why I enjoy your Six Sentence Stories ‘hop so much… the stomach-churning anxiety! lol
*I do have to admit, there is a tiny bit less anxiety and a micronisitcally-small increase in looking-forwardness to it, now that Blogdominion has completed.
Now, sir, your *’s usually have an explanation following!
HOORAY FOR SPRINGTIME! Lyk, SRSLY!
just me being subconsciously (yet totally adept) at making sure people are paying attention!*
*the Doctrine tells us: clarks do not always enjoy being the center of attention, yet they will not tolerate being ignored!**
**not that I was feeling ignored, but you know how it is, sometimes we just wanna check, make sure they’re all paying attention….***
*** lol
And the book of secret rules only appears when you summon it with the special words. What are those special words, you say? Apparently you know them because you have cited secret rules and passages.
Shh…I’m only joking because I’m a clark and I’m joking and not making fun of you. :D
I’m so very clark. I should be like…the clark specimen. I was ruminating about friendships that come and go…that many of us tend to have a close group of core friends…but that the ones who fall by the wayside either do so because they change, you change, or they don’t understand you.
Well there’s that…and the Shakespearean quote from Macbeth…tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps by at this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time…
Yes, I was sitting there at breakfast this morning and this monologue I memorized in high school crept into my head, such that I said it aloud to John who then, in turn, became as pensive as I.**
**I’m also a self-described geek. Have I mentioned that before?
the BoSR/SBoR is truly a wonderful thing (and, I am loathe to suspect that it is a natural, albeit, not always accepted element in the worldview of clarks)… it’s almost a attempt to (unconsciously) compensate (or, at very least account for) the fact that we’re all surrounded by real people who seem to have learned something (about life and the world and people and such) that we did not learn (or were not paying attention or were sick that day or, or were deliberately not taught).
yes, you are a very good example of a clark and being ageistically less disadvantaged, provide us all with a valuable focal point for our (individual) learning of the Doctrine (as a tool to self-improve-oneself) and, more critically, another of us to identify with*
*the act of identifying with other clarks is really the touchstone of the effective use of our little personality theory. I observe you succeeding at a thing, I benefit by knowing ‘the fact’ of your being capable of following the path (one that is not normally intended to gets to anywhere other than Sameville) changes how I perceive myself and when you fail and survive (and sometimes thrive) I benefit by the fact of it. It’s all about altering my worldview, not so much, ‘now everything is better’ but more ‘ok, I see Cynthia was able to survive that and she did this other thing which was good for her’ the breaking down (slowly, very slowly) of a once rock-solid worldview.
that’s why I’m very glad to know you and the other clarks I’ve encounter in this strange, strange place (and the scotts and some of the rogers…lol)
Oh, I don’t know if #8 is only of interest to clarks. I think the idea that one can take responsibility for feelings and choose is very empowering.
I agree.
(see my reply to Cynthia’s Comment. you are one of the people I’m referring to as ‘some of the rogers‘… lol)
Always fun reading your posts, Clark :) I’ve missed you!
thank you, fun (as you would imagine) writing them…
You gotta have the funk, baby.
I did not know Faberge eggs opened up and had junk inside. I thought they were just decorated pretty. Nothing says “lack of decadent excess” better than that!
lol… even the ones that don’t have junk inside, 1MM +
Oh my, bringing back the memories! When in 8th grade, our teacher had our class try our hand at making a version of Faberge. It is not easy! Although the hardest part was getting the insides out of the blasted egg. :)
I get what you mean about being surprised by spring. I was, too. For me, it’s because we had such a mild winter. I’m still waiting for The Big One, where we’re stuck in our house for a few days because of the 2 feet of snow outside the door.
I’ll take it! (the subtle Spring) better than high contrast.