Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Writing this TToT Post way early, like Friday morning early, thinking about a combo Post or maybe a Friday Post or just getting a start on the TToT Post for the weekend. As must be abundantly clear, not really sure what, if anything I would write. Following my own personal rule, ‘it’s easier to edit than it is to write’ I’ll just do some finger-aerobics here for a short time and then head out into the world. (yeah, clark here)
1-5) Reference above video (camera, actually its a new phone): dog, car and dog, cows to harass and nice weather
6) Chapter 3 ‘Almira’ due to be released this weekend. The First Two Chapters are out on both the website and on jukepop (jukepop is a site that hosts serial stories, basic advantage is that they provide a sequential format (of the stories by the Chapter) which makes them easier to follow as the number of Chapters increases. If you have a minute, you should go there and ‘Vote’ for Almira (yeah, what the hell!, is there anything, in this culture, that’s not obsessed with competition?)
7) work, which is kinda necessary to all this typation, fortunately it remains interesting work. That being said, the fact of the matter is, the vast majority of work, at least in my own experience, is repetition of (skilled and un-skilled) acts and actions, interspersed with brief, (not seeming so, at the time), intervals of terror and/or stress. (lol) Speaking of jobs, I saw an opening for ‘forklift operator’ the other day. I was sorely tempted. Buried in my work record, are a couple of interludes during which I was a professional forklift operator. Very enjoyable work.
Back to my ‘tedium interrupted by terror’ thesis; most of the other work I’ve done in my life has conformed to that description. It is, (as always), the exceptions to that rule that prove to be interesting, in light of the topic of this Item. I’ve worked in mills, both textile and manufacturing. How cool is this reality of mine, when the experiences of the worst job(s) I’ve held are, in very real fact, the most useful and valuable thing to me today? Damn! Working in a mill. It’s important to me today because, Almira Gulch (the at-the-moment, very silent protagonist of my Serial Story, ‘Almira‘) worked in a mill when she was young.( Lawrence, MA 1910 to 1912). While un-deniably repetitious, factory work can be very difficult work, the very same, limited number of motions, 8 hours a day (or more) 5 days a week (or more)… for the rest of your life. I’ve met people who were at the same punch press for 20, 25…30 years! Incomprehensible to my then, 19-year-old mind. I eventually learned. They did it for someone/something else. Someone, (singular or, more likely plural), else needed what working a punch press 8 hours a day, forever provided right then and there that day, that dinner, that future for others. Gotta give ’em credit.
8) grateful for the people here, (in the ‘sphere), who, by their presence, allow me to experiment with the tools I’ve found for self-developing myself. The Wakefield Doctrine is, of course, primary among these tools, however, I’m come to realize that the inherent flaw to ‘hermitized self-improvement’, is that, without feedback and reflections/suggestions from people walking in the same world as I am, I have no way of knowing if it’s ‘working’. So thanks to those clarks (and scotts and rogers who are possessed of a significant secondary clarklike aspect)
9) (to be completed mid day…. ) yeah, no! I’m serious, I’ll get us something un-rote for this TToT list. I have a pretty full schedule today: several houses to inspect, Chapter 3 to work on and an Open House… bound to be something in all that, small, but definitely measurable portion of my life, to include here.
10) SR 1.3 (and Our Miss Lewis and her co-hortessae, Christine and Kristi, Lisa and Zoe, Kristi and Michelle, Sarah and Dyanne )
(yeah… should have some music…. will try to find us some)
Out in the world in the course of this day: found a tune, will post….more from the field as it develops…. (remind me again, this gratitude thing, like even when the world is not cooperating or I’m getting too busy to stop and notice? jeez bar set high or what?)
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The exceptions to the rule are always more interesting (Don’t we call that Clark-like?) My most obscure job was sticking labels on jars at a cosmetic factory one summer during my college years. Looking forward to Chapter 3 and I’m glad I can vote again on JukePop.
PS The phone camera is quite good, yet the image of you videoing and driving is perplexing.
shhh don’t tell Christine!
So that would be rule 5.12 seeing as it goes by length of said video???? Thanks, Una!
lol exactly! (that was a big hypersonic shoutout from Una) (It doesn’t show on the video but the whole herd stampeded back to Farmer Browns Big Barn… the sound was the cow equivalent of screaming ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse!!”)
I love when you pan the camera to let us know where we are AKA in Connecticut passing “that group of cows”! Something tells me the farmers around there don’t even give a second glance any more when you and Una go “walking”, but I like to imagine the first few times.
no, no they don’t (I imagine it, probably incorrectly, that they would be more bemused by our slow traveling passes… being farmers and all, (surely a conceit not shared, but nice to believe)) although to do want to believe that the farm dogs look up in envy as Una cruises past
Snap! Identical dog.
yes ma’am!
Definite credit goes to all those who worked or work in factories.
I am really looking forward to Chapter Three. Love your so far silent protagonist.
:-)
yeah… ‘to serve the machine’ is surely not an easy life.
…a little late in publishing will send link by Facebook (where I currently appear to be under a modified house arrest, but I’m still allowed to send direct messages, just not comment or share or read other’s comments on the posts)
Great video walk – cows make all things great.
I WAS early this week…and then I got late somehow. And I’m way out of tough with the graviteering efforts. By the time I remember I’m supposed to send a photo it’s so far into the day it’s not worth it. But I’ll get there eventually!
Another enjoyable read :)
(sorry, not feeling especially chatty with my comments today)
(I know the feeling… thank you for taking the time and stopping by)
So, you’ve worked in two different types of mill, as a fishing boat man, as a realtor, and as a fork-lift truck operator. What else? My goodness, I’m feeling as though my few careers are rather limiting (which is fine, as I’m hoping to change to my third, soon) and SO GLAD because it means I DON’T need to necessarily operate a punch-press for 8 hours a day for the next 30 years*
*you know what I mean
I believe that there is an incredibly tacky balance between the capability to work at a lot of and varied occupations and the focus on one thing to take it (or perhaps better to say, create with it a reality that opens up more than we (as clarks) might otherwise be availed of…
there’s an old saying (“oh oh, he’s going to make up another old saying!”) ‘if you can believe in anything, you can’t believe in anything’ (in print that does not provide the emphasis necessary to make this a useful saying about the creativity and imagination of our people. clarks are curious and always open to new and odd ideas, (we can believe in anything), however, for a certainty beyond question, so far beyond question as to not even form a questions, that is not something that clarks are able to do.