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

Our host, Kristi invites one and all to participate in this week’s edition of the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created by Lizzi SanLouis back at the turn-of-the-century, each week people write and link posts that share those events, articles, people and everything in between that has caused them to feel grateful. You should join in. There are few (if any rules) and the variety manifested in the contributions is everything a giant Sunday newspaper used to be: interesting, informative, inspiring and entertaining. And it don’t cost a thing.

For me, the week passed contained the following gratudenistic occurrences:

1)  Una: A role-model for right living and an intelligent companion. Pretty much says it all.

2)  Phyllis: Like Una, but different.

3) Speaking of people, you know how sometimes a person from the past puts in an appearance, a ‘walk-on’ really, in a conversation totally unrelated to that person? That happened on last night’s call-in. A friend mentioned possibly going to Thailand and, perhaps because Cynthia and Denise were also on the call, I said “Yeah, I know someone who lives in Singapore.” This being Michelle who was one of the original hosts of the bloghop, back in 1987. I related the story how, on one Friday video call, Michelle ‘took us’ out into the city, courtesy of 21st century technology. We rode a train and everything. Cool.

4) the Wakefield Doctrine in how art provides a clear illustration of the principles of said Doctrine. clarks, female: (specifically, female clark with a secondary scottian aspect)

clarks, male: (01:27:00) “It was my dream, so I guess I wrote it…”

5) firewood pad home-project update:  got beach sand (photo below), once the sand has settled in between the rocks embedded last week, I’ll spread the top with crushed marble stuff.

6) Bloghops (in general) Finish the Sentence Friday and Six Sentence Story (specifically). This writing jones is a funny thing*… As someone (I believe I heard it attributed to Emily Post… which that just doesn’t sound right. Sylvia Plath I’d buy, but Emily Post?!!  In any event, what someone said about writing was, “I enjoy having written.” Perfect.)… oh yeah, bloghops. Great ways to get a break from writing without having to resort to four or five hours of computer solitaire. Kristi and Kenya at the FTSF and Denise at Six Sentence Story. Thanks guys.

7) * Totally grateful for the technology that allows us to re-enjoy:

https://youtu.be/6YDTfEhChgw

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (for anyone out there almost ready to join on the fun… try it out. Send in a grat and I’ll stick it right here.)

9) Sunday Supplement

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules) which states, in part: “having Nine Things of Thankful pretty much puts you in the land of completion, see how you feel when you realize that you’ve written nine separate items. Kinda makes you feel…. grateful.  Cha-ching! Put that little darling in the tenth position and hit Publish.”

video:

hey, in case theres anyone new to the Doctrine here, they video clips of the clarks, above? The thing about the Wakefield Doctrine is that it holds that although we have one (and only one) predominant worldview, we still retain the potential to exhibit the characteristics of ‘the other two’. We refer to this as having a ‘significant secondary aspect’. In our examples this weekend, both Diane Keaton and Richard Linklater are examples of clarks with significant secondary scottian aspects. I offer as evidence:

For Richard Linklater, (who is the ‘actor’ in the taxi in our first example), a scene from one of his mainstream movies, ‘Before Sunrise’