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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

A once-weekly practice of cultivating gratitude.

A list (or other style of word assemblage) of the people, places and things that elicit the emotion of gratitude.

Ten items are the practice, how (they) may manifest is left to the individual writer.

Kristi maintains the base to which participants link their contributions and all benefit by her work and effort.

1)  Una

2) Phyllis

3) footnotes Surely there no more clarklike element in grammar/rhetoric/the-world-reduced-to-words than footnotes.

4) the Everything Rule (of the Wakefield Doctrine), “Everyone does everything, at one time or another.” The meaning: despite the fact that each of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine experience the world as distinctly different and, more importantly, characteristic personal realities, being the Outsider(clarks), the Predator(scotts) and the Herd Member(rogers) there is no thing that happens in one reality exclusively. However, how a thing, (or job or occupation or avocation, infatuation or taste in music), manifests is different for the three. And, as you’ve surely come to expect, the difference not only reflects the individual’s reality, it informs us, the observer. That, in turn, supports our claim that, by applying the perpective of the Wakefield Doctrine, you can know more about the other person than they know about themselves. The Everything Rule reminds us to make the effort to see the world as the other person is experiencing it. This additional perspective, surely enhances our own selfs.

5) serials (or cereals, given how I do have a photo of a childhood favorite at the top of the post). Currently ongoing stories (click on the titles to go and read and don’t forget to share and follow and whatever other rogerian thing that might occur to you). The Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and The Whitechapel Interlude

6) Six Sentence Story fun with story-telling

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8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) something, something

10) S.R. 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which states in the preface, “…sure, every activity comes with rules and requirements, expectations and demands on those who might participate. It is commonly accepted that [t]hese aforementioned rules are issuances of an authority beyond the reach of the mere player (in whatever game/religion/philosophy/orthodoxy/or whatever our parents may have insisted, ‘if you’re going to be a part of this family, there are certain rules you need to follow’).” The BoSR/SBoR is, for the purposes of this post, that Source. Write ’em if you need ’em.

music

(I can’t decide if I should be concerned, or embarrassed*, by my finding cover versions of music as performed in a tv series as the more enjoyable**, given the choice between original renditions and subsequent takes on the music (ha ha))

Be that as it may, here is a version of a-Ha’s big hit ‘Take me On’ from the series Magicians

The theme for music being established, in the interest of space and time, (is there anything else possibly of interest to any of us?), we will leave it to the Reader to either go to youtube to listen to the original version for comparison and appreciation.

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Original: JS Bach

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Original: George Michael

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Original: Bob Dylan

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