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

This is the bloghop that asks the question: ‘What¹ made you feel grateful this past week²?’

Each week our host, Kristi, provides a place, a gathering place, if you will, where people might come and share their gratitudinous³ experiences since the last weekly gathering.

A creation of Lizzi Lewis⁴ this bloghop has value and can be fun⁵. So join in and join up this weekend, as we approach the feast of St. Roger with hungry-anticipation and cautious optimism.

Wellll! There is surely our first Grat Item!

1)  the Wakefield Doctrine. Why? two words: Thanksgiving. The beauty, fun and wonder of having the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine at our disposal lies in how accurate it is. Especially when it assigns characteristics, attributes, tendencies and qualities to people possessed of one of the three personality types⁶. Our lead in photo-sequence above is a perfect example of the fun and usefulness of our little personality theory and served as a reminder that this is the week of Thanksgiving, here in the US. And, …and! not only do people reflect the characteristics of the three worldviews, but events, (particularly cultural events), do as well. And if there is one holiday that is the essence of the rogerian experience, its Thanksgiving: family centric, organized sports, very specific menu and…. parades.

2) Phyllis

Phyllis and Una walk past the treehouse along a leaf-worn path.

3) Una

4) Almira (while the process of editing is less enjoyable than the first draft writing, it is a necessary part of the process)

5) Kerry  she wrote a post in last weekend’s TToT). It’s been a while and I enjoyed reading it. I was impressed anew by the virtual world, (as manifested in this blogosphere), and it’s capacity to bring diverse people into contact. Kerry has been, for me, a power of example. Like most of us, I struggle with fear, (as road blocks and hurdles) in the path of my effort to self-improve myself. Kerry travels and participates in discussions of national importance and she does it alone. Very cool. (Enhancing the value of saying to myself, ‘Come on, clark, just do it.’ is that Kerry is visually impaired and….does it anyway.)

6) something something

7) Hypograt⁷ Having snowed earlier in the week, I am coming to accept that summer is over. Not my favorite thing to do.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (For anyone wanting to try a little participation in our bloghop, but don’t have what they think is a full Grat List)

9) Sure, we should have a contest about the series of photos at the top of the post. We should call it the “What and Why?” contest lol.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

1) this includes not only events and occurrences, but: memory flashes, creative reconfiguring of perspective (i.e. maturing and developing) and maybe even a song you remembered you never did like, happened to listen to and discovered it was, actually, now-for-some-reason-quite-enjoyable. (see video below)

2) ….or month or year or, throwing down the common-grouping-of-time-foisted-upon-us-by-our-surroundings-usually-divided-by-common-life-stages-i.e.-grade school-high-school-prom-most-hated-employment-death-of-family-members, whenever.

3) not a ‘real’ word

4) she has always insisted, and, at last report, (still) maintains her denial (of) being a third great-great-grandniece of a certain clark with the Initials: C.S.

5) you know that, ‘if the medicine tastes bad (or hurts), it is only because it’s good for you’ thing all of us, of a certain age, heard as children? What.The.(Your Choice of Epithet) !

6) the three worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine: the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Members(rogers) One thinks (first), the second acts (is there anytime other than ‘now!’?) and the third feels (because emotion, being timeless and non-rational, is the universal language (unless you don’t understand and that makes you an….)

7) New Reader, TToT-participant? There is such a thing as Items of Hypogratuity and they are considered valid Items for a List of Ten Things of Thankful. According to the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules), an item that engenders an emotional response less, ‘thank God’ and more, ‘what the*(*@$%$&%@!’ this again?!’ can be cited in a TToT if properly referenced as a Hypograt or, if pre-parsed or otherwise reviewed by Mimi, (who is recognized as having the gift of recognizing the positive in events and occurrences that strike most of us as being negative.) Perspective is everything

Here, the aforementioned reference to musical tastes changing with time. I didn’t enjoy Neil contemporaneously with this video and, I might add, even though I now do, I don’t particularly get a lot out of his subsequent work.