Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Not quite a year-in-review, nor a resolutions-for-the-coming-twelve-months. This week, in the spirit of CS Lewis’ great, grandniece (on Jack’s favorite aunt, Edith’s, side), L., we will list the active things in the world as we experience them. Because, and, fair warning, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to eschew my intro-philosphical side; which is unavoidable and inevitable, being a clark and all. The benefits of this perspective assures the Wakefield Doctrine of a position in the top three of any Grat List. (Not that we’re ranking the good things in our world, in these weekly reflections. Hell no! lol… but, …but! it would be hypo-humanistic of anyone to deny that ranking (of perceived qualities, both positive and negative) doesn’t shape the order, at very least, in which we place the people, places and things in our lifes.
Thanks to Kristi for maintaining this bloghop. It is not as easy as a good blog hostinae tends to make it look.
1) Una ↓
2) Phyllis (out of frame to the ← ) Even a non-caniphile will recognize the look in Una’s eyes. Trust, confidence and interest.
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) work: it not only allows me the flexibility of time so I can take videos and stills to use here, and on the new story; both are local features. It, (work), is of a nature that allows me to practice the principles of self-improving myself as the Wakefield Doctrine provides.
5) Yesterday, in an earlier draft, I started this Grat Item with ‘another serial story is threatening to start!’ As I did with ‘the Case of the Missing Starr‘, I’ve created a blog for posting the entries in the story, it’s called the Hobbomock Chronicles. Before going too much further, I looked to my scottian secondary aspect1. So I created a page (in the Facebook) and asked everyone on my friends list to ‘Like’ it if they were up for another serial story. damn. got us some twelve or so responses. (Still being a clark, I was all, “Wow thats great!” (followed by) “Oh shit! What am I gonna do now?!” New Readers? Grat Item #3 up there should help make sense of all this. In any event, we gots ourselfs a new serial story about some interesting people in a little, New England(ish), town on the ocean. It should be fun! The link, at least this week, is the same as the bloglink itself. Here.
6) Ocean* ↓
7) Technology ↑ Seriously, how can we forget how how totally futuristic it is to be able to film something (on our ‘telephones’ no less! lol)
8) something something
9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. Anyone out there wanting to ‘try it out, a little, before committing to a full-on post’ here’s your opportunity. Give us your Grat Item (and whatever attribution you would) and before you can say Jack Robinson, you’re be in the TToT
10) Secret Rule 1.3 Because where in the world(s) would we be if we didn’t avail ourselves of Secret Rules?
1) the Wakefield Doctrine provides that, although we all live in one of the three characteristic realties, (that of the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers)), we always have the potential, the access to, if you will, the worlds of ‘the other two’. And so, you will observe in some people (or yourself) times when you appear to have the qualities of the other two. The Doctrine refers to this as (our) secondary and tertiary aspects. To use myself as an example, I am a clark (predominant worldview of the Outsider) with a strong secondary scottian aspect and a mild tertiary rogerian aspect. I went ahead on facebook and said, to people I was not, at the moment, directly in touch with and said, “HEY! Over here!” lol
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* technically, you’re looking at the waters of Rhode Island Sound
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Why not write another? You’re aces at it!
Thank you, Lisa
Will be interesting what this Hobbomock place and the people who occupy it are like.*
*yeah, totally seat-of-the-pants writing. I have some ideas, but won’t really know until I get to know the characters better.
THANK YOU for posting #6! I SO miss easy proximity to beach/ocean.
And Fred! Fun, hand clapping, get up and dance Fred :D
I’m looking forward to the Hobbomock Chronicles.
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Fred is the best
It will be fun/intimidating/daunting and totally beneficial to go try and sneak into Hobbomock and try to pass as one of the inhabitants.
Great picture of Una – the center of the universe (at least ours).
I liked the ocean video also.
totally
#7 yes, I love my phone camera. It is a necessity, my 4th basic need.
it’s nothing short of amazing, when we remember polaroids
If only there were a way to make almost everything number one, and everything else number two in the list of favorites. People and pets would all occupy a number one slot, places and things a number two slot. Of course, then we would want to overthink it and have a ranking within the ranking, or at least i would!
what?! me?! overthink!??!
lol… (as we both know)… it’s the Hav ard accent of the world of the Outsider, an affection of pride and totally without the power to resist (except we can learn to hold off, at least for a short time)
…. I believe this answer sufficiently establishes my credentials
lol
I can for sure see Phyllis just out of that frame. Who could doubt Una?
Having a job that allows you the flexibility to do the things that you really enjoy is something to treasure, and even more so if perhaps that has not always been the case.
Thanks for an Atlantic view!
BTW A great title for your new serial story. His there a story to tell as to how you came up with the name?
This is true.
In addition, we are fortunate in having quite a variety of salt water features, from small bays (where the rivers come to die) and pounding coastlines (where creation takes place).
ah! Hobbomock! I should look it up again, but I get wary of too much understanding (or attempts to do so) of the places I start to believe in… however, I can relate the process, almost the definition, it was from a search of the mythos of the local nature Americans (or to use the really cool term that one of my favorite writers, Larry Brin, employs Autochthonous peoples. It (Hobbomock is a name or a reference to a devil-type being for the people in the area, back in the day)
Una’s look reminds me of Drexel’s “I’m hungry; are you just about to ask, ‘Is the puppy hungry?'” look.
Looking forward to reading the new story.
Una is very patient at meal times, however, and not surprisingly, we totally spoil her with the dog treats-between-meals.