Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
‘A once and future garden’
Hosted each week by Kristi…
This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. Where we, (those of us participating), post ….er, posts listing the things that elicit the emotion of gratitude. As in, ‘I’m grateful for….’
1) Phyllis and Una
2) Work that involves driving around. …a lot. On interesting roads to get to interesting properties.
What? How interesting? Glad you asked!
3) Certainly grateful for global warming… at least the aspect of it that accounts for our snowfall (or lack thereof) so far this season. It would appear that Virginia has gotten more snow than southern New England.
4) Sea Smoke! Monday was quite cold. Sea smoke: “Sea smoke,… is fog which is formed when very cold air moves over warmer water” (wikipedia)
5) Nature Films and Walking Una…. in one?!
6) something, something
7) Hunk Dietrich. As mentioned in previous TToTs, I’ve decided writing short stories about the characters in ‘Almira’ might be a good way to get to know them better. (Plus it can’t hurt with my ongoing effort to learn to write good). What I underestimated was how difficult it can be, at times, to write. For me, it is nigh on impossible to write and learn concurrently. That is, I will read about POV or tenses or some other element of the craft and then look at my latest effort at wordifying and see them as the scrawling of a five-year-old and his first Number 1 pencil. It takes time for a certain part of me to reassert itself, the same part that takes a certain pleasure in sticking made-up words, rogerian expressions and other neonlogisms into my Doctrine posts. Then the words come back. Here is the link to a short(ish) story about something that happened to Hunk Dietrich when he was just a young boy:
Click: March 18, 1925
(If you have any suggestions, feedback, criticism or reaction, please feel free to have at it in the comments below.)
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (A public service from those who bring you the Wakefield Doctrine. Anyone having the desire to participate, but is encountering a bit of stage fright, send your Grat Item in as a comment, (along with whatever attribution and information you wish), and we’ll totally put it here at Number 8
9) Sunday Supplement
10) Secret Rule 1.3
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no reason, other than catchy tune and lyrics
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Very nice, glad you and Una are part of my circle.
A lot of nature, this is always something to be thankful for. As are dogs, of course.
Have a great week!
They are, as we say at the slightest of prompting, ‘perfect lifeforms’
You do see some lovely places!
…a roadtrip(ette) nearly ever day
Hey! What Violet said! But for god’s sake stop scaring the deer (and the cows for that matter)!
I enjoyed reading about the awful experience from Hunk’s childhood. Surely, a most efficacious way for your characters to tell you their stories, reveal a bit more of themselves.
And how cool is sea smoke!!
It was a cold and breezy morning…
What’s the Sunday supplement? The vids are fun to watch, especially as I find myself making more and more and more of them. I know a thing or two about video editing, now. Hehe. A long time ago, when I first started blogging, I vowed that over my dead body would I record videos. Well, even back then, I made myself do at least a few videos. Fast forward to now, and I feel, actually, not too phased by the camera. And I’m not dead! lol Once you get enough practice and get comfortable with that little beady lens staring at you, you start to learn to be able to ignore it. I suppose it’s like any other skill. lol. In any case, I hope you’ve had a good weekend!
Aiyyee!
Hey! speaking of surprises, I came across a pile of words that I wrote back when I was first thinking that made-up stories might be fun!
Haven’t looked at it yet… you know, earliest of efforts… but, hell 80k plus words. gotta figure out what to do with that. I know I need to practice, but am kinda concerned with diverting the energies from Almira which is in ‘what scene is really the best to follow….’ stage.
To be continued….
Will get something for a Supplement
Hey, we both must have been running in “circles” with our music selections this time. The one you shared is another one I like.
The difficulty of writing and learning at the same time is a conundrum to be sure and one I think a lot of writers discover about their attempts to write.
I wasn’t familiar with the term sea smoke. I had to look that one up. Very interesting to read the difference between it and fog.
It’s a phenomenon of very cold winters. (Old salt tale: back in the day, fishing in the winter, the not-so-amusing-then thing where, when the ocean was rough enough to cause spray to break at the bow, the wind would blow the sea water back towards us on deck but it (the droplets of sea water) would freeze on their way to our faces… lol really kinda hurt, but you quickly learned to turn away before it could get you..
Great sharing! Thank you!
thank you for joining us