Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(I’ll ask you to believe me when I say, “I have no idea why this photo jumped out at me.”)
This is where I spend my Fri(Satur)days. At the bloghop that started it all.* The Primae of Primae** the Finish the Sentence Friday ‘hop.
Hosted by Kristi and Kenya and their retinae of remarkably talented bloggorinae, each week we are invited to either: a) Finish the Sentence, 2) Create a 10 Item List, c) Post a(n) intriguing photo or, and hopefully this describes the current week, b) write a post in SOCish. Five minutes of stream of consciousness. Just, you know, to see what shows up on our respective computer screens.
So, please join in. The more the merrier! (And the bigger the group, the less this post will stand out. Thank you. (Well, since you asked… the reason is because, here at the Doctrine theres the little matter of a certain Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) and one of those Rules states, (in part): “…[w]hen an idea (for) a post is actualized into either typed (or other transferable media) in a draft form, t(hat) post needs to be the post, if, in fact, the intended outlet is accessed (ibid. op. cit. BoSR/SBoR ed. 2014)”
So, with further adieu:
* perhaps more precise to say, ‘that started me on a road into the inhabited sections of a certain, virtual world, aka the blogosphere
** ‘real’ Latin… sorta
About clarkscottroger
What can I say, but I have truly missed your videos. So you made my Friday by getting to hear you here today. Thanks for that and Happy Friday, my friend!! :)
thank Janine they can be fun
A Wakefield Doc video! Cool! I don’t know why the number of things we focus on in 24 hours gets smaller… maybe we spend more time on the ones we enjoy? Or we’re just getting slower each year? Also, my ex’s grandmother couldn’t wait to get into a nursing home. She was excited for the company, the group meals, and bingo and such. I always hoped that if the time comes for me that I’ll be excited and not feel put out to pasture, you know?
It was fun. Need to do more of these. Might even, on the next one, find out the actual prompt…lol (missed the instructions)
Don’t think I be looking forward to the company… but then again, maybe they have virtual nursing homes or, links between patients… like the video calls we used to do, only quieter (or louder)…nah, quieter.
My own thinking is the less things thing is about basic energy levels. That an a willingness to fritter away more time than in the past.
Distilled to their essential nature :-( You said unless you think of it positively and in a breath I did not. The thought just made me sad. If I’m ever in a nursing home, I hope it’s a good one. Though I’m not the people-ist of people person’s, I’d still want to have some old people camaraderie and not be laying in a bed all day because there’s nothing else to do.
yeah, I was (when this idea originally occurred to me) thinking, nasty people stay nasty and nice people stay nice…but in it’s simplest and purest form. Don’t know that I’d look forward to going to such a place. For me at this stage the worse place in the world is a hospital, in that once admitted, you become a ‘patient’ which is so not a real person. The lack of freedom of movement alone would make be crazy.
I remember this*
*not specifically THIS, but *this* **
** you know :)
I do!
(I think)
…don’t tell anyone, but I didn’t know there was a specific topic for the FTSF… I was driving around, hadn’t seen the announcement for the week, thought (I think I say in the vid)… it was an SOC week. I still have this thing about never reading any of the posts of a ‘hop before I post my own. Mostly to allow me to write and post, otherwise I’d be all, “I can’t post this, it’s awful compared to those other guys…”
Of course, this week it would have helped ’cause I would have streamed off the idea of home.
Good to ‘see’ you again
Lol. It’s nice. A ‘here we all are again’ that feels almost (dare I say it) like home.
You had a lucky guess it was SOC. Five minutes feels shorter in typing than in speech, I reckon.
yeah that home would have been a fun starting point. better to be lucky than good, right?
Excellent vid post. All the things we once did that we didn’t think about that now… might be considered a big accomplishment on any given day! Thanks for the reminder :)
Excellent FTSF video! Some of the people I know who are in assisted living places seem to enjoy making friends and going on outings as a group. These particular individuals are not as limited physically. Being in long term care facilities can be more challenging even when they are receiving excellent care. I do not look forward to that time of my life.
I can clearly relate to that feeling that I am not accomplishing as much in a day as I used to.
thank you. (I suspect that a person not in such a facility is not equipped to arrive at an un-biased opinion (at least of the potential good as much as the potential un-good); surely the most classic of age-hindered judgement.
but the thing about not as many different things (each day) sticks with me… I’m suspecting its an ‘energy thing’ but that doesn’t account for the lack of variety (other than as a function of the cost of engaging the un-familiar).
I think I’m doing the same amount of things; I just don’t remember them all! And as a stay-at-home mom, there were many times when my kids were little when I couldn’t tell you what I did all day. But I made sure two little bodies were cared for, fed, entertained, and loved. It’s not a day at the office, and the pay sucks, but hey.
I’m with you on that, the basics remain unchangeable. I was thinking more of the variety (within) a given day. That seems to have lessened, which ‘though not degrading the quality of life certainly does not enhance it.