Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
‘A Wakefield Doctrine hat in Salt Lake City’
My other favorite bloghop, the Finish the Sentence Friday, is on ‘Photo Share’ in their rotating-themes cycle. So I thought… man, that was fun reminiscing and, seeing how I have the song in my head, lets stay with it.
Hey! Josie Two Shoes Sorry about dragging half the contents of my car’s back seat up the walk, onto the metaphorical porch and all… (A proper Grat List must start at the beginning or ‘in principe incipere’, as they say at the roadside stops.)
‘A Wakefield Doctrine hat at ‘the Grassy Knoll’
I’ll let everyone have the fun of identifying the locations (where necessary) in some of the photos this week. They are all remnants of road trips past. They also, as I referenced in the Finish the Sentence Friday post yesterday, are, with a couple of exceptions, examples of the Rite of Hat. I have a link in my FTSF post yesterday that explains the Rite of Hat (based in part on the Treaty of Tordesillas) and everyone’s favorite personality theory.
1) (the blogosphere cause… well, you know!)
2) the Wakefield Doctrine (the extra piece to the puzzle that most clarks spend they lives searching for… ironic, how it, (the Doctrine and everything), is not really information or knowledge, at least, not merely information and knowledge. The missing puzzle piece appears to be the place we can get to when we have the ‘information and knowledge’ that is inherent in the Wakefield Doctrine. ya know?)
The Stanley Hotel (just before) being claimed by Rite of Hat
3) something something
4) back to the Doctrine… so, you say, ‘sure that Wakefield Doctrine gives you the knowledge that allows you to better understand the world and the people in it. big deal… show me something impressive.’ video at the bottom of the page: me in a video. clarks are the archetypical photophobes. (Wakefield Doctrine Guide to Identifying the Personality Types, Quik Tip #89: ‘at the summer get-together, family reunion? see a group of people clustering together for a group photo? the one taking the picture is your clark.)
‘A famous corner in a town in the high desert of Arizona’
5) Technology which allowed me to take video that accounts for Stanley Hotel trip (at the bottom)
7) {THIS GRAT SPACE AVAILABLE] (Not yet comfortable writing a whole post? Still a bit self-conscious about coming up with a TToT post that people won’t laugh at ( er…have you looked around this post here yet?!! lol)? Place your Grat in Comments and I’ll be happy to post it.
8) Sunday Supplement:
‘Still Life with Laptop and Salad’
(Landscape orientation)
In the left half (back) Phyllis stands at the kitchen counter putting saran wrap on a white bowl that contains a fresh salad for her church’s monthly social. (Monthly social motto: “Even God needs to eat his veggies. What kind of congregation would we be if we didn’t suffer the spinach and carrots?“)
Phyllis wearing a white sweat shirt and black pants. The cabinets are an light-oak stained wood and the countertop is a light, faux butcher block formica. There is a white canister-looking appliance on the near edge of the counter (to Phyllis’ right). It is a humidifier. Very necessary in winters, not simply because of the dry air, but because the experience of temperature is diminished in lower humidity. Have it on from Halloween to Easter.
9) Phyllis and Una (well, duh!)
10) Secret Rule 1.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2NtFaGHPDg
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I must look like an idiot sitting alone reading your posts each week. Either I am throwing my head back, spitting out a gulp of tea, or engaged in some other unbecoming reaction to your humor at all times! Number 4 is the one where I lost it this week.
(Let me put you down as one ‘Aye’ vote for: Do we need to do Wakefield Doctrine T-shirts again)
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another aye vote but skip the pink.
yeah, fashion houses, Parisian runways and the entire of Savoy Row was a war zone for months after that little contretemps
I love that hotel! How great it would be to see the insides of what looks to be a very historic building.
I like your 3) something something. I need to remember that one. HaHa
#4 made me laugh, and I just thought he didn’t want to be in the picture, and was always wanting to be the one taking the picture. Now I know. chuckle
I did sign up for the guided tour. (I was out to challenge myself, afterall)… I lasted an hour. The actual guided tour of the Stanley Hotel was listed as being about 3 hours!)
Not clued in enough to know where you were, but i’m glad you were there and hope you had a great time!
Will do my usual photo-captioning a bit later on, but (to make some sense of the music video) one was in Dallas Texas, another in Winslow Arizona and the third in Estes Park Colorado
the grassy knoll and Winslow…. I wanna go tripping with you…. fun/interesting places…”…a fine sight to see”
yeah… this memory lane place does, ‘Make an old man wish for younger days’ (‘oww’)
OK, I’ll start the “name that place” answers: first photo, you with Brother Brigham in Salt Lake City, Utah. (My answer sounds like I’m playing Clue, but Brigham Young is not a murder weapon.)
good ‘get’ I believe I was standing on S Temple St adjacent to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.
Yes. The JSM building used to be called the Hotel Utah. The service kiosks that I wrote about in December were set up inside the lobby. It’s a beautiful building.
This was, I think from my second trip to SLC. The counterpoint of the first trip was driving out to the Bonneville Salt flats. How different the geography is from here in New England. The city itself struck me as a fairly relaxed and friendly place. (Which, coming from a native New Englander, probably translates to: the natives were polite and helpful when asked but didn’t go out of their way to convince anyone that they were now friends for life.) lol as compared to some other parts of the country.
…with a candlestick…lolol
lol (almost had to re-read the post and comments… but fortunately, the light went on (cartoon incandescent bulb))
lol
I don’t travel so I didn’t recognize any photos. I did think of The Eagles song when I saw Winslow, Arizona though :)
The town is aware of the fame (from the Eagles song). On the corner opposite the brick drugstore/giftshop in the photo, there is a mural on the wall of the building of, you guessed it, a flatbed Ford. It was definitely a fun part of the trip.
I lived 30 minutes from the Stanley at one point, but never made it there (I had to travel over a winding mountain road through Rocky Mountain National Park to get there from the other side of the mountain…) and I spent the day in Estes Park once, but still managed to not make it there…I want to STAY there.
Anyways…fun pics. It makes me wonder if you’re gonna do a trip like that again: fly anywhere in one day and come back…what fun!
The still life photo is priceless.
And, as always, I’m grateful for the Doctrine! :)
those roads!! jeez huge insurance premiums much? I noticed them immediately because (as Kristi Campbell might say) ‘because: no. guardrails.’ ayiiee the life expectancy of newly-licensed male (and, nowadays, probably female) drivers gots to be ‘race-you-to-the-Stanley-mph’ or 20 minutes.
thats a good idea… about road trips. (Actually have a short tripette in mind for the spring…more to follow)
as always, I come away from (your comment) with a renewed sense of ‘come on, clark! get going!! do stuff!!
I claimed the boardwalk in Point Pleasant by Right of Hat. I wonder if I can still find the photo.
Denise Lizzi and I claimed Ocean Beach, NJ by rite of hat as I recall….forever grateful for the bloggospere where I can drop off for eons at a time and return like I never left.
I, for one, in what I trust in thoroughly non-politically correct am being held rapt’d by a visual of a re-take of Columbus and them wading ashore of La Español (think Ghostbusters 2016)
This was a delightful list of thankfuls, Clark! I loved seeing glimpses of you in these photos familiar places, and especially the video, providing a flashback to my own visit there one day long ago. The Rite of Hat was executed perfectly! I agree that it is not the acquisition of knowledge that drives us, but the awareness of what we can do with that knowledge. Knowledge is truly power!
The “Still Life with Laptop and Salad” felt so comfortably familiar, as if I might be sitting at a chair near the table and watching Phyllis at work. I also found myself wondering if perhaps Una might be blogging and you’ve been holding out on us!! You will note from the header on my blog that Sophie is my ever-present editor (though I suspect at times her thoughts run more along the line of wondering what I could possibly find so interesting to occupy my time rather than pamper her and bestow treats befitting her status as queen in residence.
I wonder if it’s possible that we often find Clark’s out of camera range, or behind the camera, not because they are self-conscious of their appearance, but rather because they find that the flat image produced somehow fails to convey the depth of reality of their being. I look at pictures of me and realize they convey so little of who I really am. Blogging does it so much better!
Thank you for your generous provision of space for sharing our TToT link-up list each week, and I eagerly wait someone taking you up on that offer of space for a thankful (as in #7). Maybe I need to talk to Ivy about that! :-) Have a great week ahead!