the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Here we are again! The weekend and time to join in the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. (technically, the ‘hop started on, like this Thursday), but habits, well, not so easy to discard¹ Our host is Kristi. She organizes and sends out the link each week.²

I sit here³ and type words that reflect a view of my reality⁴,⁵ and send it in via said link.

You should join us, even if only a single ‘Grat’. ⁶

It’s not just a list of the people, places and things that sparks a sense of gratitude, although some of our TToT’ers write posts that are elegant in their simplicity and moving in the depth of feeling they convey. It can be something as fundamental as photos⁷ and the occasional music video⁸ that, somehow, manage to evoke the emotions behind these words that the skill has not yet manifested.

And, as to the traditional summertime question about temperature? No. No, it is not.

Secret Rule 1.3¹⁰

Well, that certainly makes the most of the magic of footnotes.

3) Surely the most self-evident of Grat Items: Technology. Which, if I might offer, is to this bloghop as …er are palm fronds and bamboo to Gilligan’s Island.

10) from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which states, in part” “… [w]hen using superscript, like for footnotes and such, the citation at the bottom of the page need not be limited by the shackles of the Chicago Manual of Style or nothin…. ordinal or any of those arbitrary-keep-ya-from-getting-an-‘A’-just because-you-didn’t-remember-that-’10’-comes-after-‘4′-instead-of-in-front’. (op.cit, ibid, thanks to Alfred Bester and his wonderful ‘The Stars are My Destination‘  for that trope)

6) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE for anyone wanting to try out a single Grat. (By definition, this would be a new reader to the TToT… good luck on the ‘what the heck is this?!! effect of a certain blog which shall remain un-named.)

1) the Wakefield Doctrine the preeminent tool for: a) self-improving oneself and 2) having fun doing it and c) acquiring one more perspective on this world that surrounds us.

7) photo of Una on guard duty and hail-fellow-well-met attitude of the plant life here

5) Phyllis

4) Una

5) Chapter 5 of the Serial, ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’. You can read it at the Facebook, (don’t forget to follow me and like the heck out of it). Or, for true dyed-in-the-wool bloggers, read it at my blog here.

2) the links to this here bloghop here.

8) Tell me I’m the only one who, when this video started, thought, “Holy Smoke! Christopher Walken!”*

* from the movie ‘Annie Hall’

oh! that’s right! I’m a co-host…. where’d I put those links. Hey! Dyanne!! did ‘ja see where I put the postlink?!

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created by Lizzi it is hosted by Kristi.

It, (this bloghop), is both a practice and a diversion with an appeal to people in wildly different life situations, reality constructs and places on the map (both geographical, emotional and chronological). While the theme of the TToT is an invitation to recount, recall and relate those people, places and things in (the writer’s) life that elicited a feeling of gratitude, L. had the wisdom when establishing the ‘rules’ to keep a very light touch.

So this week, the people, places and things I would claim an emotional detection merit badge for is:

10) Secret Rule 1.3. (Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) Index, Vol. 1; 2019 Ed. “…you want a Rule, you better get to work making it up!”)

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE.

8) Driveway corn (at number 4) and plant mash-ups (‘roses, some kind of sunflower, thistle and dog’) below.

7) Six Sentence Story bloghop plug. Tell your friends, ‘hey there’s a place where people come up with tiny, short-stories, short, short, short-as-in-six-sentences-long short stories. The best part is everyone uses the same starting point, aka prompt word.’

6) The Search for the Missing Starr. Chapter 4 marks the threshold of the ‘work of writing’. I’m doing the serial story both as practice and as a learning experience in this writing thing. (Interesting: For this story, I’m trying to imitate the greats of ‘pulp detective’ writers such as Chandler, Spillane and, even, Parker (“You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don’t make you money than anybody I know.”). In any event, still in the opening chapters, we’re meeting supporting characters, in this case Dr. Leanne Thunberg, a dean at Radcliffe. (‘Literary license in the case of the Ivy League College. Like the name, realize it no longer exists. Using it anyway. … that’s Devereaux, with an ‘X’.) lol WordPress link. Facebook link.

5) Summer weather and being able to work in the woods, clearing a section for an as-of-yet, undefined purpose. It has been appropriately not-cold for the last week. Only regret is the inevitable, seasonal dying of the light.*

4) (aforementioned driveway corn)

3) The Wakefield Doctrine. Surely a more poetic or imaginative self-improvement lodestone would be way hard to find. (Doctrine quote: “clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.”)

2) Una for being a power of example. She lives each day to its fullest. (See photo at #8)

1) Phyllis. For wrestling from an often un-reasonable life a remarkable accommodation, one that bestows upon the family unit a certain style and standard of life that is quite admirable. I was thinking of a cool quote, in this case Piaget, (no, not the watch maker!) the other Piaget.**

music vid(s)

https://youtu.be/kqy_czC8Fns

* yo, Dylan! thanks for the line

** who, without having the benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine (specifically, the part about how rogers are the people of tradition), said: “Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.” Jean Piaget

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!”

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vid:

https://youtu.be/xy8ba2eL7cI