the Wakefield Doctrine

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

To paraphrase Marcellus Wallace, “I’m about to get pictorial on this post.”

Our resident hosts*

1)

‘A dog and her human.’

Plants

2) Thistle and Stone

3) Corn Spiral

4) Una (and her garden)

Animals

5) Una and the Weekapaug Breachway

6) Dog and Bird

7) (Sunday Supplement)

Make that Saturday Addendum! Photos from Phyllis on our evening out last night:

Phyllis’s photo of Weekapaug Breachway (and dog)

Driving Miz Phyllis

“Second star to the right, guys. Come on, lets go see!” (Una helping us enjoy the world)

Ideas

8) Val and Misty Meadows  (like the barely-heard laugh in the back of the class when you spot something funny and, like, only raise an eyebrow or shrug…. simpatico in the world of imaginary people and things and events)…

So, our tale begins:

Chapter 1. (clark)

Chapter 2. (val)

Chapter 3. (val)

Chapter 4. (clark)

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE  (You enjoy this bloghop but you’ve never quite had the time (or the nerve) to write and publish a post with Ten Things of Thankful as the content? Not to worry. Write a comment describing your Thankful (be sure to include how you want your name presented) and send it in!  We’ll totally plug it into this here Item 9 here.    Promise!

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (which states, in part, “…hey! look! this is, what number 8?!! one more and then…you. will. be. done.! [‘...the invocation of the anticipation of the completion of the assignation is by Rule 1.3 totally validation(ed)].”

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

‘Friday evening walk’

Hey! Lets all welcome Kristi as the new hostinae and cat-wrangler here at the Ten Things of Thankful (aka the TToT)

(Wait a minute!….  join us in the Key of Me… I am thankful for:)

1) All the time and the effort that Josie Two-Shoes put into keeping this ‘hop up and running for the last year or two.

2) Kristi for being willing to take the helm.

Two right outta the gate. We on a roll, lets it going.

3) Friend of the Doctrine, Alex. He was in Greece recently and, (as is abundantly clear in the photo), vigorously invoking the Right of Hat*:

Well, according the ‘Right of Hat’ we should all get used to call it ‘Alex’s Parthenon’

4) Plant life and it’s qualities and characteristics that lend a certain amenability to being used to express the admittedly odd impulses of clarks, in this case, in matters of landscaping. The corn spiral is a perfect illustration of the indomitable spirit of Zea Mays. The reason for the spiral’s relatively slow start is found in my confusing ‘distance from the next plant’ with ‘distance from the surface of the earth’. Seems when Phyllis said, ’24 inches apart’, I heard, ‘Dig a hole 2 feet deep into the earth and cast the seed down’. Well, it’s looking like they’re breaking out into the air. (“Yes, as a matter of fact, I’ve had people listen to my Tale of Gardening and make the entirely reasonable leap to ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. So is that a reflection on them…or me?”)

5) ….and speaking of plants! Given that the spiral is kinda working out, (corn spiral motto: “It’s like a corn maze, ‘cept you can’t lost or get lost!“), we’ve decided to plant some Driveway Corn. (A fairly small number of corn things have been planted along the driveway.) I suspect the neighbors will be delighted!

6) I am thankful for: …snail mail (in general) and ‘junk mail’ (in particular) because, if I’m in the mood, I can actually open it. This opposed to some predatory emails that will reach out from the (figuratively)opened envelope and drag me, Una, Phyllis, the title to my car, all of my clothes, most of my business clients and the loafers that I really like into the computer …and then pull the computer in on itself leaving nothing behind.

Example: Harmless, semi-friendly, snail spam**, replete with a free refrigerator magnet!

‘With a professional discount!’ (Note the genuinely useful refrigerator magnet with measurement equivalence, outlined in the shape of the appropriate utensil)

7) something, something

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (Inquire within …because, as Edgar*** surely reminds us all, ‘...the answer must come from within.’)

9) Sunday Supplement

(as promised, photos of corn-ettes)

‘Breaking free from it hideously dark prison down into which it was cast, the humble corn seeds transform.’

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

* The Right of Hat is the fundamental right of all lifeforms to claim as their own whatever they decide should be theirs, provided they have an Official Wakefield Doctrine hat (‘...on their damn heads‘). Think I’m making this up? Follow this link to a post that makes plain how the Treaty of Tordesillas and the Wakefield Doctrine lets a body get away

** yeah, eww!

*** Edgar Winter ‘Free Ride’

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

“Today’s lead photo? Two words: ??!?! lol*”

As I’m sure you’re all aware, the torch/baton/standard has been passed along, once again. Josie Two Shoes has found herself a ‘maîtrise d’ouvrage’/majordomo/Curatoress/’Expéditeur de Lien’ who, being possessed of the qualities that reflect the tradition of this here bloghop here, has agreed to …(all the cinnamons and semi-latinized french words) already cited.

Seriously though, we all are, technically, entitled to submit a Ten Things of Thankful post this week with three items*: Lizzi, Josie and Kristi.

But, since this is the Wakefield Doctrine (and a refuge from the normal and predictable), we’ll simply post the following (block quoted) reprint post:

 

(From Josie’s Inaugural Post)

There’s an old saying, ‘a good thing that is shared, will never be lost’. This would very much be the case with the TToT. Originally created by Lizzi Lewis and shepherded through the early years, Our Miz Lewis did what all successful people do, she shared a passion.

Josie has taken up the (there should be some humorous analogy here, but I can’t think of one). Bottom line, she has taken the helm and the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop continues. The ‘rules’ are simple: share ten things that/for which you are grateful for, from the week immediately behind us or any time.

1) Lizzi for creating this thing

2) Josie for continuing this thing

3) the internet for providing the place for this thing

4) my work for allowing me the resources to afford the technology to access this thing

5) Phyllis for creating an environment in which I have become increasingly aware of the parts of my life that I can reference in this thing

6) the reasonable good-sense (almost) to know when a semi-clever rhetorical thing has run it’s course, (fans of horses will applaud this description)

7) Una for being a constant power of example

8) I’m grateful for having come to know Almira Ristani Gulch, the co-central character in ‘Almira’

9) I’m tempted to say, I’m grateful for having gotten this far in a list, which by virtue of being the first in the new order (of Ten Things of Thankful) without getting too weird

10) I glad that I didn’t

 

 

2) Transitions, such as that occurring this week, can be experienced as triumph as well as anticipation, excitement as much as gratitude. The people who have taken on the not-in-considerable task of organizing and making a bloghop available, welcoming and easy-to-use, have earned not a mere, ‘Why thank you. We have been fortunate.’ Rather we hope, in this post to convey a certain element of (emotional) response that includes: “yeah!” “alright!!” and ‘that-classic-high-pitched-whistle-usually-involving-two-fingers-to-the-edge-of-the-mouth-executed-by-the-nearest-scott‘ (We’ll leave you to go youtube it up….)

3) Una and her Garden (photo to follow)

4) Phyllis and her Una (photo to follow)

5) Kristi for offering her time and energy to the daunting task of hosting the TToT

6) May (over at the Gravity Challenge) … just because.

7) the Six Sentence Story for continually providing a place for me to write what I now take great solace in referring to as ‘flash fiction’. (As opposed to, ‘well, clark, thats a fascinating idea you have, with a little more time and effort, it could be a reasonable first effort at learning to write  a short story.‘) (lol)

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (you know, if you’re still a little a’scairt of submitting a full TToT, in no small part attributable to what you’re having trouble believing you’re seeing on this particular post).

9) Sunday Supplement

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* that would be: the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) 3.42 (which states, in part), “… when a change in the host(ess/inae) occurs, then the photo used to lead off the post may portray the spirit of the referenced people, whether past, present or future…”

While I used Bob Dylan for subtitle purposes, I will make a substitute for the version of the Dylan song, simply because this is one of those ‘cover-better-than original’

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