Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
“Listen! Do you smell that?”*
(Landscape Orientation)
* credit and thanks to the writers of the screenplay of the original ‘Ghostbusters’ for the most appropriate of lines to attribute to Una in this here photo here.
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). Each week Kristi opens the metaphorical doors to her virtual open house and welcomes all to join in on the sharing of the people, places, things and events that elicit a feeling of gratitude in their respective worlds. (Hey! A bit of a membership drive on… don’t tell her I said anything, but if you get a kick out of seeing the numbers of TToT posts grow with successive weeks, stop at Thankful Me and ask Kristi.)
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Six Sentence Story for adding a certain structure to my efforts to improve my writing. (Yeah, I know! “Who would like to come up to the front of the class and present their book report? … why clark, again?! Well, if no one else would like to, certainly you may read to the other girls and boys.”)
4) the Wakefield Doctrine Qik Tip: when trying to ascertain the predominant worldview of a person, immediately discard the “yeah, right! like they’re a (fill in the blank with the one worldview that is totally no way the person can be). Now, with a solid understanding of the characteristic relationship of each of ‘the other two’ with the world around them, consider how much sense whatever the person is doing at the moment makes. Example: you see someone trying to cut in line at the supermarket. If they are laughing as they do so, seemingly in no hurry (other than working their way up the line) and most people don’t appear to mind, probably a scott. If, however, the line-cutter gives the appearance of someone rappelling down a cliffside, but are making distinctions among the people they are passing, not a few of whom look a bit pissed-off, you gots a roger. as to clarks… what part of ‘no way’ I said in the beginning? yeah, no way.
5) ‘Coals to Newcastle’ in the flora demolition derby that is our idea of landscaping. (thanks to Pat for the original ID of the thistle that showed up a couple of years ago. It’s been biding it’s time ever since. First the side yard, last year the backyard, (about thirteen feet from its final location).
6) Continuation of the serial ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’ with Chapter 3 (Read it at ‘the Facebook’ or go to WordPress here
7) Remind me to get all… something… in five more posts (counting this one). The wordometer is turning over, out of the teens into the twenties in terms of the number of extant Doctrine posts.
8) Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) A combination Etch-a-Sketch and Magic 8-Ball for rhetoric and/or blog posts. The Rules are said to be both novel and ancient, thereby acquiring a mysterious respectability and resistance to direct criticism. Of which the most frequently lodged: “But.. but! you’re just making them up for your situation!?!” To which the most common rebuttal is, “Yeah, so your criticism is?” Of course, as the old saying holds, “Old sayings are a dime a dozen. Useful ancient wisdom is worth it’s weight in… in something valuable!”
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10) Secret Rule 1.3
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Haaa…I know all about those thistles. They grow all over here, too. Phyllis and Una look great in that first photo. I hope your scottian 4th was good as well.
I’m over here editing my video for tomorrow, but…in true clark fashion, I jumped in and decided to get AdobePro (before that I was using iMovie) and wowza…what a learning curve. But I think this is going to be good. REAL good. lol. Dang…there are SO many things to learn in this life. Next up: how to make kaleidoscopes with the mandalas I make. Oh wait, that’s AFTER I learn how to make digital mandalas…I’m so addicted.
They are kinda cool looking, all stegosaurus and such with the spines.
Hey I’ll have to ask questions (about how you’re doing with the video editing) helping a friend at work try to understand how to do real estate vids. Damn, except for the creative part, there is such a high demand on my rogerian element to learning that kind of stuff… ‘Remember Step 3 comes after Step 2, not in front’
lol
have a good week.
I like Una listening with her nose – LOL.
yeah
These photos of Una could easily be a study of all the various directions “the ears go.” LOL
Your thistle is a healthy specimen!
So do Clarks never cut in line, or do they just not allow a person to cut in front of them. I wasn’t sure how to interpret the “No Way.” Just wondering.
Hardly ever. This has to do with the ‘core fear’ of clarks, the fear of scrutiny. That said, I could imagine cutting in line* but it would be under extreme duress and would, in all likelihood involve my scottian aspect.
This is ‘the backyard thistle’ we seem to have only one, moves around, year to year.
* the ‘Everything Rule’ of the Doctrine states, ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’ and is meant to remind us that there are few (if any) actions, hobbies, inclinations or sports exclusive to one of the three personality types, how it ‘manifests’ in each of the three is the important part.
Your nemesis in the garden is a thistle, this year, mine is onion grass…
Great list!
Those are the, like, light green grass blades that grow real tall but are easy to pull out? Think we might have some of that too.
So, you have just one thistle that just likes to relocate each year? If I were a thistle, I think I’d grow by a rose, too! “See, guys, you let the rose stay. You can overlook its thorns, so just ignore mine, too, OK?”
Exactly! (Thanks for validating my ‘coals to Newcastle’ quip)
I’ll trade you about two dozen sprigs of poison ivy for your thistle.
er… no thanks. We used to have poison ivory (as we used to call it) but the thistle, at least, is all ‘in your face’ and not likely to get hurt without knowing it ahead of time.
Can you thistle me the tune? I think it’s akin to “I’ll be watching you…”
lol
If somebody is able to smell sounds, it surely would be dogs!
Maybe I will try to write Six Sentence Stories as well, I like the idea.
You are battling thistles, here nettles try to take over the garden… sigh.
Have a great week!
Hey! yeah, totally join us sometime at Six Sentence… its a challenge and its fun, a lot like the TToT, there is such a variety (of stories) each week.
At least the thistle has limited it’s presence to one in the backyard (there may be another in the front that we haven’t discovered yet).