Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Our most successful effort at a garden… “Thistle and …clover*
* over and over (lol)
Well, that certainly was fun.
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop) and last week we celebrated seven years of continuous activity. (For you arithmaphiles* that’s approximately 364 posts!)
So this week we are grateful for:
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) Kristi and the co-hostinae Pat and Lisa, Mimi and Dyanne, for all their work putting together the ‘versary
4) the Wakefield Doctrine for providing identifiable characteristics of the three personality types (clarks, scotts and rogers) that not only offer remarkable insight into how the other person is experiencing the world around them, but is a lot of fun as well! (Next Item)
5) rogerian expression! which, if you’ve been doing your reading is one of the more startlingly-delightful things rogers do. I was at a showing yesterday with a client. There was a studio, built appurtenant to the main house. It had two floors. There was a landing midway up the stairs from the garage level to the studio above. In the corner of this landing was a vertical row of stones. It was interesting, as the walls (forming the ninety degree interior angle of the corner), were clad in copper. The listing agent notices us, noticing this. He said, “That’s a wonderful artistic touch by the seller. It’s a water feature.” As we leaned five degrees out of vertical towards the clearly dry corner of the landing, he continued, “Its not on now, of course, but, if you look closely you can see a fixture up there above the topmost stone, (five more degrees), and down there, is a drain under the bottom is a drain. The effect is quite mesmerizing. The water gently flows down the wall, over the stones and gathers at the bottom… where a hidden pump regurgitates the water back to the top and maintain a continuous flow.”
6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) for including among near-countless exemptions, special cases, loopholes and rhetorical mulligans, the delightful in use and expression: ‘hypograt’. This is surely the nitroglycerin of gratitude blogs. Sure, it manifests as an essentially negative event, but with the appropriate finesse, totally stands with traditional grats. (Friend of the Doctrine, Mimi is a past master of the framing of hypogratuitous events and occurrences, somehow reminding us that, even a snowy day in June might warrant the emotion of gratitude. (Not that it’s snowing.. but it does relate to the month. See Item 7 below.)
7) Eight days until Summer ends! How quickly the time flies. Totally inspires me to get outside today and work in the woods, with only a regular shirt on!
8) Friend of the Doctrine Kristi Campbell for joining in the festivities last weekend.
9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. If anyone out there would like to take the participation in a bloghop like the TToT for a ‘test drive’ , I have good news! Send in your Grat Item in a comment and I’ll post it right here at Number Nine!
10) Secret Rule 1.3 “...to approach the finish line is to see the race, from beginning to (near) end. Running is simply how one is relating themselves to the event and not separate and apart from the course or the other racers.”
* not a ‘real’ word
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About clarkscottroger
How does one emojisize laughter :D
(Old enough to get the very first “joke” without benefit of prompt, lol)
Yes, #5 was excellent.
Roy *sigh*
really
you’re welcome
them folks sure are…
It snowed in the mountains here last week! Fortunately, our elevation just got rain and some hail.
That regurgitating water feature sounds beautiful, if not a bit disgusting. :-)
You left out a co-host in #3. Thanks for being part of the crew!
Thistle and clover. . .over and over. HaHa
You sent me to the dictionary in your #4 just to see if I guessed what that word meant. I was right, but I don’t remember coming across the word appurtenant until now.
With the type of weather we have had this week (lots of rain with most days hovering between 60 and 70 degrees) you almost had be believing your #7 because it feels more like fall here than summer.
Love Peer Gynt – Morning Mood.
Sometimes it’s so hard not to laugh when doing so would be impolite.
rogerian expressions are interesting. they are not merely malapropism, it is an aggressive use of a word that forces the listener to …er listen.
you will always laugh at a rogerian expression, a very shocked laugh…
Earworm has now cued the song in my brain. I will therefore name this insomnia sleep attempt as the Clark.
You are welcome…
lol