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May 13, 2016 By

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Hey, this being the week of remembering the fun of the old days of writing for the Doctrine, to wit, the spontaneous, single thought or sentence or idea which amounts to the push of the sled down the icy street.*

So I was just researching the famous ‘Bread and Roses Strike’ (Lawrence Ma 1912) for ‘Almira‘.   (Non-Spoiler Alert!!: Almira Gulch, at the time of the Strike was 16 year old, not yet married and therefore was Almira Ristani, not only witnessed the Strike, but become involved in it on a very personal level. Hint: she tried to send her younger brothers off to relatives during the ill-fated ‘Children Affair’, which, as I’ve come to learn, sort of marks the nadir of the Strike.) Anyway. I was reading a book on the strike and the author wrote,

“Many (Historians) have also come across the saying, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

I’d not come across that expression before, and, like in the early Doctrine days, I was all, ‘damn, what a great way to say it’

Anyway. There it is. Our public past is of the record, engraved in the collective memory of family and friends, communities and cultures. While it is a given that the rise of commercials for genealogy websites and companies that offer to help you discover your past (or, at least, the cast of that ‘longest running of plays’), is pretty much a rogerian thing, it nevertheless represents a need we all share. Especially nowadays among all, in response to an increasingly institutionalized present to seek out one’s personal past. Of course, our tour guide for a trip like this is surely suspect. These tour guides not only are not professional or otherwise trained, rather are amateurs who happen to seem like nice and well-meaning enough that we think, yeah, sure…. lets go explore my past history for the last (fill in years since born), why not?

“...the past is a foreign country: they do things differently.”

 

Gotta get back to work!

(Now! if only Kristi and them at Finish the Sentence Friday did a sentence fragment that has to do with our personal history, I’m golden.)

 

 

*when I was young…. lol  wait, wait!! hear me out!! winter? we had sleds then, these wooden things with metal skids and pointed (metal!) ends that you twisted (the metal!!) rails to steer… anyway, there was one street, Penguin Ave (I know! I have trouble remembering appointments coming up this weekend, but you want to know the name of a street that I didn’t live on when I was 10 years old? I totally got it covered!!) anyway, it was steep and ended in an intersection with a cross street, Potowomut Rd. The town workers used to ‘forget’ to sand the street, for at least a day after a snowstorm, so as not to wreck the excellent sledding. Now that’s a common occurrence nowadays, isn’t it?

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Sentence of Sixosity -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 12, 2016 By

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‘Address’

It1 says that ‘Address’ is the word. Of course, that’s only part of the problem, (well, maybe a component of the problem). The problem is that ‘Address’ is only one word. The Challenge that zoe poses to you and me and that woman who types when no one is looking (and wishes that she had the nerve, of barring that, was the kind of person who didn’t mind people watching and judging), in this, the Six Sentence Story blog….hop. thing.

So all we gots to do is spin a yarn that incorporates the word (or failing that, the idea of the word (and, failing that…has at least one word with half the letters already in it… sort of like an incomplete palindrome… the word that implies one word when read in one direction and implies a similar, but different (often mistaken for) word when read in the other direction.)
There! all warmed up!

“I believe, Class, that I have sufficiently addressed the impossibility of co-incidence of an emotional experience.”

“But Professor, speaking on behalf of the class, and therefore the final arbiter of the persuasiveness, if not the validity of your proof, while we will concede the non-reproducibility of any occurrence, we do not accept your conclusion.”

“Have I not amply demonstrated (and therefore addressed) the impossibility of the exact duplication of a what is, by definition, non-definable, i.e. a subjective experience?  To quote our Latin friends, ‘argumentum ad lapidem’, it that how you would characterize the last 60 minutes?

“Mu”

“Well, my fine zen students, be that as it may, (and next week’s assignment is to quantify that little statement), I’m not refunding your tuition!”

 

 

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you wanna hear a really stupid song from the 60s? This came on the radio on my way to the office yesterday…and, it took at least a couple of minutes of “is that who I think it is”  nah…no way….. oh man, the lyrics are so  60s, but it is!!”

 

1) what are you looking down here for? hoping that there’d be something to make sense of the above? sort of a reverse of the classic visual meme, the child on bended knee, eyes upwards in hope of explanation and/or divine intersecession

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the fun of the Wakefield Doctrine’

May 10, 2016 By

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You know, I’ve been so busy with ‘Almira‘ and, because of that and my odd belief in the limited daily supply of words, I haven’t been writing as many Doctrine Posts of late.

I think I forgot how much fun they can be, until tonight. (Yeah, 10 pm Tuesday, no less)

So I’m watching some last bit of TV before turning out the lights… ‘Back to the Future’ for the 17th time and a commercial comes on, naturally the sound is off, but still I watch, well…. here let me show you (for total effect you should mute it).

…I watch and then that last scene and I turn to Phyllis and say, ‘roger‘

I laugh and she smiles. (Una had already run off to bed). So, naturally Phyllis asks, ‘why?’ (do I think that the girl is a roger) and my answer is, “she has a look in her eyes, (starting at 0:23 to 0:25) that appears excessively determined and totally crazy. She”, (the character in the commercial). ” is acting like what she’s doing is important and valuable to anyone who might observe it. And more than, ‘important and valuable to them’, she knows that she’s giving a gift to the world.”

So, I thought, ‘hey I think I’ll write a Post’.

New(er) Readers: there’ve been periods of time, in the tenure of this blog, when I might write a Post every day and other times when I might go a week between. But at the base, the foundation of my enjoyment was to be inspired to write a Post by some seemingly random and/or inconsequential event or occurrence in my day. Always about the Wakefield Doctrine, of course, but only because I see the world through the perspective that is the Doctrine.

Fun! I’ll have to do this more.  (If I don’t collapse in a corner from cool-words-depletion.)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘now for a TToT that’s a little different’

May 7, 2016 By

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If I weren’t in the middle of worrying about getting Chapter 6 of ‘Almira’ underway, I be laughing at the cool circumstance of this week’s TToT. Never let it be said that we don’t enjoy a challenge! So, here’s the thing: for reason beyond her control (and our understanding), our Leaderini, Lizzi Lewis is unable to provide the critical html that allows each post to display icons that are direct links to everyone who participates in the ‘hop. Without that, we’re left with a number of blog posts that are standalone in nature (like reading to everyone, even though you’re standing in your house and they’re all in their own houses)… sort of like the power being off (in the old days) or your server being down (in the not-so-old-days).

We are not, however, totally deprived of ways to communicate among ourselfs. There is that bastion of meaningful and totally sublime though, ‘the FaceBook’! and on that ‘Facebook’ there’s a group (Ten Things of Thankful) and there we can post our individual posts. Being posted there, people can come across our posts and click on them and read them…one at a time, individually..

…that being said, need I remind anyone that this is the Wakefield Doctrine? and that unusual changes, impediments and ‘sorry, we can’t do this the way we always have’ is like… ( gasoline on a fire/meat to a hungry lion/low-cut dress to a male (or female) scott/’your father and I will be away for the weekend, do you think you’re ready to be left on your own?/well, I can come up, but only for a short time/could you help me pick out a lawn mower, there are so many to choose from)  ya know?

So here’s the link:

I’ll just post the photos that I’m using over there, here…. the rest, well… aw darn!   I guess we’ll just have to wing it this week!

Item 1:

Una, first thing in the morning, doing her job, (defending the house from marauding squirrels)

Una, first thing in the morning, doing her job, (defending the house from marauding squirrels)

Item 2:

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Item 3:

(would not permit upload…. just the photo of my computer screen showing the Facebook TToT)

 

Item 4: Una (and Phyllis) on vacation!

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Item 5:  the Treehouse

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Item 6:  well, this is the view from the porch (or balcony or deck) of the treehouse)

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Item 7:  for work and for walks… the car

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Item 8: (this is a photo of a ‘real’ world building in Chicago that I picked to play the part of World Headquarters of Omni Corp… don’t just scream, ‘nefarious!’) in the Serial, ‘Blogdominion‘

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Item 9: (cover photo of the Serial ‘Almira‘) Chapter 6 on it’s way! (In which we meet the Chief of Medicine at St Mary’s, Dr Thaddeus Morgan. A good doctor, but somewhat driven (both by ambition and demons of childhood) he is on a Mission (in no small part instigated by one Mrs. Emily Gale) to re-imagine the use of the resources of the hospital, with an eye to elevating little Circe to be more on a par with Kansas City and Topeka. The good doctors mission: make available room in the hospital for private rooms. When we meet him he is in Ward C, in search of under-utilized value. Dorothy rides a bicycle to Town, her mission: meet Tom Hardesty (for a little fishing) and go to the hospital in the hopes of getting Mrs. Gulch to talk to her. And Hunk, ever the kind man, promised Dorothy a ride home.

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Item 10:  (SR 1.3  yo)

 

(In lieu of little icons:

Val over at

My Virtual Vineyard

Christine

Kristi

Sarah

Joy

Lisa

(the Graviteers!)

Kerry and Cynthia and Denise 

and, zoe (as the Curateress of the Six Sentence Hell!)

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Six (sure, the count is right) Sentence (er… probably*) Story (to a certain, un-tethered sort, sure!) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 5, 2016 By

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The cue for this week’s Six Sentence Story is, base

Six Sentence Stories are a bloghop sponsored by zoe (aka Ivy) over at Doug’s place. The Object (and challenge) is to write a story of six, and only six, sentences. Everything else is up to you. (In this week’s example, I’m kinda seeing how far off the free association cliff I can get this jalopy. I promise, next week there will be a simple story, maybe a narrative involving: true love, reckless disregard for one’s own well-being, a stunning lack of fixed and established personal boundaries and maybe a little sex… that’s next week. If some one reminds me.) Until then,

“Sentimentality Base to Sparrow 1, Sentimentality Base to Sparrow 1, report your status.”

“Sparrow 1 to Sentimentality Base, the fog is thick, it’s impossible to see the Way, instinct is the only available navigational aid.”

“Sentimentality Base to Sparrow, do not,  we repeat, do not rely on instinct, the terrain is too emotional and unreliable…”

“Falcon 1 to Sentimentality Base, too late, have identified a landing zone, repeat, have chosen a place to land.”

“Sentimentality Base 1, please return to base, it’s too soon, please return to base.”

“Eagle 1, who is this?”

 

 

 

*a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses.

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