Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Today is Saturday.
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Dyanne is the host.
Lizzi (was) the Creatoress
The Rules are simple(st): Write a post reflecting the people, places, things (and events) that elicite, inspire and otherwise cause you to experience a thought/sense/feeling1 of gratitude. This can be from the previous week or (anytime) during the seventh grade.
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) the Work Project (‘the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing) What makes me optimistic about learning an ‘on camera’ style that will attract viewers (and I liken these initial weeks of once-a-week videos to the first episodes of a tv series, where the characters are new and developing)is that I’m feeling as I did when I first started this blog. “Well that post wasn’t so well-written… lets, quick write another!” Facebook seems to have an issue with my embedding the video here… but if you’re in the Temple of the Money-changers, search ‘the Coastal New England Real Estate team and it should show up… a little 1.54 vid serving as a commercial for the series.
5) the Six Sentence Story the place for flash fiction (of the Six Sentence variety)
6) ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ My two current serial stories both of which can be read under the link or you can stop in at the Six Sentence Story any week and follow along.
7) Speaking of the 7th Grade, the photo at the top of this post is of my junior high school, William Golding Jr. High in North Kingstown.* (According to the caption), when the photo was taken that brick-and-anxiety edifice housed six grades of existential fear, un-founded hope and an educational system as abusive as allowable at a time when corporal punishment was considered the right and the duty of parents and any other authority figure invested in the system.
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE for anyone wishing to try (participation) before having a full post ready to link. Send in grat, will paste it here with full attribution.
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3 ‘The approaching completion of (a) list of. ten things of thankful is, ipso facto, a reason to celebrate or, if’n you’re a clark in public, smile effusively**
musics
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1) total props to anyone noticing that the three forms of realization corresponds to the three predominant worldview of a certain personality ‘theory’
* not it’s ‘real’ name… but is one of my favorite blog-inspired jokes
** now, we all know that ‘the smile of a clark‘ is as distinctive as…. well, as ‘the eyes of a scott‘ or….er… ‘the social ease of a roger‘ and it. (‘the smile’). is simply the compression of the lips, which, to no fault of the clark in question, natural anatomy results in either end of the now closed mouth turn upwards.
About clarkscottroger
Clark, you video well, even though it was short, it was sweet!
thank you, Lisa hope to polish the delivery in the coming weeks
Sounds like great work if you can get it.
(for me) anything that allows me to practice the principles of the Doctrine is a good thing…and… and! if I’m up here telling people about how useful and efficacious and such the Wakefield Doctrine is when it comes to self-improving oneself well, I better practice what I preach*
*I do take liberties with the word/associations ‘preach’ non?
;p
Congrats on completing the first episode! I think you guys make a good team.
Good music, all. I like Kirk. Not heard him before.
thanks
#7, Speaking of 7th grade– made ALL my anxiety symptoms burst forth at once! The photo looks like a prison….or mental hospital of old. It’s a wonder I learned anything in school…the oppressive, stern to abusive atmosphere is a nightmare remembered. Great post, despite my reaction and obsession with #7. At some point I hope to get back to doing weekly gratitude posts myself, as indeed, I have much to be grateful for–and 6SS and its contributors/readers is ever on the list :)
surely there is no more socially-toxic phase of public education than Grades 7 and 8… if I didn’t go for the Lord of the Flies joke (William Golding Junior High) I no doubt would have pulled out a Pink Floyd reference …hell, I’ll do it anyway!
that said… the horror of those years came as much from classmates as much as teachers (though they were complicit in the creation of the environment
Your school has such an ominous look to it. Maybe in the spring when there is sunshine and blue sky, it looks better?
I’ll check out the video when I get back on FB. Congratulations!
a lot of that style of public buildings in this part of the country (New England) back then, Early American Purtian Repressionism is the architectural term… unless I’m wrong (yeah, as if)
congrats on work done.
was fun…. with continued practice should get good (making parallels to when I first started writing the blog… more posts the faster the improvement
My kids went to an elementary school that was built in 1924. Looks very similar to yours, only much smaller. It’s still in use although being replaced in another year because it appears to be slowly sinking into a mine shaft.
I get likening your work project to starting a blog. Some of my early stuff is cringey, but you learn as you go.
lol
I had this thing back when I was writing every day, ‘Hey, clark, don’t worry if this post sucks, it’s gonna get buried by all the upcoming ones you write’
Practice
(am lucky in that, for god knows what reason, this has never been work or, like practicing an instrument that somebody else thought was a good idea to learn to play…)