Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Thanks to Kristi for making certain that, in this world of constant change (not all of it sought), there is a place where the basics have remained untouched, the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.
Thanks to Wendy/Josie for carrying on when the need arose. (Now, I don’t mean ‘carrying on’ I mean ‘carrying on’ in the Kansas’ ‘Wayward Son’ song sense.)
Thanks to Lizzi ‘sine qua non’*
That said, I will cite the following as people, places and things that elicit a feeling of gratitude this week.
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) Wakefield Doctrine: As tool for self-development, it is without peer. As a way to better understand the world and the people who make it up, it is both fun and effective. Once you’re familiar enough with the nature of the three characteristic realties, you can establish your own predominant worldview and that of those around you. At this point, you can begin gaining insight into how you relate yourself to the world around you and, even better, you can see the world as the other person is experiencing it. Try it, it works and is simpler than you’d think.
4) the Hobbomock Chronicles. This week, in Episode Thirteen, the sleeping woman awakens. Stop back later today, still working on it.
5) Modern technology. Result ing in the video and ‘editing’ of Number Six (below)
6) Friday afternoon walk and talk (and drive)
7) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE If you have a desire to try this bloghop thing, but don’t have a full post worth of grats (or, you do, but the thought of hitting ‘Publish’ takes you back to third grade and the walk of shame back from the front of the class of twenty-five boys and girls, most of them, recent transferees from William Golding Elementary. You rose from your wood-and-wrought-iron desk with the a careful assurance, spent and entire time getting to the blackboard trying to ignore the future memory of praise and accolades for your excellent report and turning to look over the emotional crossword puzzle of faces in bolted-to-the-floor rows, (‘rank and file’ a part of your mind yammered, throwing interesting facts like confetti in the hands of New Year’s Eve drunk with a watch that ran three minutes fast), “The purpose of this Report is…” you began. The words of the report on whatever you spent the previous three days (and nights) thinking and rehearsing were, mercifully there, and because of this, there were no opportunities for anyone to interrupt the flow of words, the torrent of information. Half way to the safety of your desk and its one-size-will-have-to-do, you hear the teacher speak, “I never noticed, but you walk funny.” There is a moment of silence, not so much restraining and suppressing the reactions following your oral report bubbling up among your classmates, the typical mixture of torture and affection, as a sudden vacuum that sucked the energy from the room, for a split second. Then since nature abhors a vacuum and the power it would have taken to negate the authority (both real and sociological) would not be available to you for, say, fifty years or so, the class breaks out into howls of laughter and torrents of awe at the power of adults,) not to worry. Send in a single grat with your preferred attribution and I will post it here. After erasing the totally-made-up, who-would-recount-such-a-story-if-it-wasn’t-made-up-fiction words and you’ll be right as dodgers.
8) err, that our capacity to remember is constantly being focused (for better or for worse) as we self-develop ourselfs.
9) something , something
10) Secret Rule 1.3 From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) that states, simply (and that kinda surprises one) that the approaching completion of (a) list of Ten Things is, in and of itself, something to be grateful for and, therefore, by tradition and practice, the last item can be this over-arching grat.
* one of my favoritest Latin phrases: ‘without which not’
music
An oldie. But I got caught by two lines, on a random web page, and the song has been playing in my head since yesterday morning.
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Congratulations on the video editing thing. I imagine it is frustrating initially but quite rewarding when you get the hang of it. Thanks for the tutorial/Friday night walk with Una :D
Yup, this song most definitely can get stuck in one’s head. Queen. Freddie and company, so very excellent.
I look forward to the sleeping woman waking up.
Indeed!
a very nice video.
Thank you.
The great outdoors is still the great outdoors. Nice fresh air. I am not able to go out much lately because of work but someday.
Surely, and, hopefully, this all will diminish enough to allow that will the seasons are still user-friendly.
A grateful week and invitation!
Thank you, Lisa
The outdoors looks beautiful here today. But. I’m in full-on raging allergy mode so I’m not quite as enthused to enjoy it as I might be otherwise. I’m also very grateful that you have invoked the secret rule here because I needed it for my own TToT and I knew you’d have it here somewhere. LOL Thanks!
I’m lucky in that what I do get in the way of allergies is fairly sporadic… god bless the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)
Una really enjoys her walks, doesn’t she? As you talked about rogers loving their rules, I was reminded about how I came this close to buying a puzzle online yesterday. Everyone seems to be doing puzzles now. I don’t object to puzzles, but I have tons of other things I could be doing/enjoy doing more. But somehow, I still had an internal question as to whether or not I was doing the pandemic the “right” way. I resisted purchasing the puzzle, but it took some self-talk.
There is a “10 things I don’t like that everyone else does” thing going around on Facebook that I haven’t played, but when I saw your video song choice today, I realized that Bohemian Rhapsody would make my list. I have a gut emotional reaction to it that is almost depressing. I suppose that speaks to the power of the song. I can appreciate its skill, but just don’t like it. (But I know I’m definitely in the minority!)
Funny about rogers and puzzles.. Phyllis totally love Sudoku and will do the occasional jigsaw puzzle (online: there are free games online that let you use your own photos, breaks it up, so you can put it together).
The Everything Rule of the Doctrine*
As to doing the pandemic the “right” way, lol I would suggest your secondary clarklike aspect is interrupting some of your rogerian predominant self’s fun. But thats the same with Phyllis, still a roger but is able to see above the Herd.
* ‘everyone does everything at one time or another, while the three live in characteristic personal realities, we’re all still in the same common world and there’s nothing exclusive to one over the other two. That said, given that we live in personal realities (that of the Outsider, the Predator, the Herd Member)… how something manifests is different in each in a way that makes sense. Example: I enjoy jigsaw puzzles but my approach to solving them is noticeably different from Phyllis’. She works inward from the border and focuses on similar (colored) pieces, I go for shape, trying to reproduce the image in my head. On average Phyllis completes her’ quicker than I do, Makes sense.
I think I may have enjoyed the walk as much as Una, although I would have had a hard time keeping up with the running she did at the end. HaHa
I never took Latin, but if I stick around long enough here at the Wakefield Doctrine, I might pick up a few words and phrases. Now if I just knew how to pronounce them. Maybe Google Translate does Latin, maybe, just maybe.
Same here, lol
I did but the remnants I have (of Latin) is actually courtesy of reading and law drama on tv with the occasional visit to a courtroom. Like the whole ceremony, separate language and everything that they do