Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
A black and white picture. One sees a chalice while another, the profiles of two people facing each other. An example of an ambiguous bi-stable image, aka (the) ‘Rubin Vase’, created by Edgar Rubin in 1915. For us here at the Doctrine, it serves as a reminder, perspective is everything.
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Kristi hosts (with the help of Pat and Lisa, Dyanne and, of course Mimi) this long-running bloghop. The theme is gratitude and the approach is simple. Write/share/and-otherwise-list the people, places and things in your reality that have inspired/incited/or-nudged you into feeling grateful.
Pretty simple, isn’t it?
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) work It gives me something to do during the day that gets me out of the house, ’cause Una has her own schedule during weekdays, which involves a concentration (as we might have said in college) in napping.
4) Six Sentence Story each week a bunch of writers write a story-ette employing a prompt word. It is very good exercise, (in crafting the wordage) and fun to read.
5) Serials. the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and the Whitechapel Interlude. Each week, one (of these two serial stories) has a chapter added by way of a new Six Sentence Story.
6) Replaced old(er) car with new(er) version, there is something to be said for continuity*
7) No longer summer (Una and Phyllis don’t mind. Phyllis is in charge of moving new firewood onto rack and backyard stack, via yellow wagon to Una’s left)
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. for anyone out there in the Reader-zone thinking, ‘Hey, I could write one of those posts. Heck, if this Doctrine post is the bar, well, I’ll have a double!’ Come on down. But if you’re wanting to check the water temp first, send us a single Grat Item and we’ll plug it in right here. Give you a look-see and all.
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3 because without process how could anything begin and without an ending, how would we know? (Book of Secret Rules (Secret Book of Rules) Prologue to Chapter II ‘so what’s the deal with this Rule 1.3?’ et al ibid.
* Continuity is, as we all know, Habit’s younger brother, who, unlike his older brother appreciates the value of hard-work. To this older brother, (and his friends Novelty & Hormones), constant amazement, Continuity applies himself to his studies and, as a result, prepares for the future in a way that does not involve the wholesale destruction of irreplaceable braincells or a GPA that is kept afloat, like a seat cushion in the North Atlantic, SAT and Miller Analogy test scores solidly in the 99th percentile.
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About clarkscottroger
“..you ever seem to have one of those days…” “ja ja”
TToT is a great blog hop. And, I’d benefit way more if I participated! Howver, in the interim, it is a delight to “hop around” and read everyone’s post.
Peaceful and inviting picture – woman and dog walking, woods guiding them :)
#5 Enjoying
#4 Always love to challenge myself
#6 New color?
#7 Great exercise but still want to deny the change in seasons, lol
same car, different year (2017)
Congrats on the newer car. John and I keep wondering how much longer it will be before we need to replace our vehicles, but then I realized that if we keep them long enough, they will qualify as “vintage,” which at least sounds better than the reality of “old and unreliable.” LOL. Fortunately, they’re still just at “old” and not really to “unreliable” yet, so they remain.
thank, a secondary benefit of Audi is that, unless you’re a fan, one year looks a lot like the last… but ‘the reliability factor’ is critical. Of course, having 255k on the ‘old car’ is one of the reasons for liking the car… the tend to last a long time.
I’m grateful for the magical world that you have created which includes Una and me.
yeah, me too
What a nice looking stack of wood. It looks like Phyllis and Una have it under control with the help of that wagon.
I am pretty sure when the time arises that we need to turn in our car for another, it will just be a newer version of what we have. BTW The * for #6 is a fun read!
Phyllis does enjoy that sort of yard work, Una is a very good supervisor.
Nice week and looking to cozy new seasons!