Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Not that weather is the primary criteria for a day being conducive to taking note of things, (and people, (and places),), for which one might experience the state (feeling/context) of gratitude, but doesn’t hurt! Or, is that, more properly, ‘doesn’t help!’
Whatever.
Holiday weekend.
(Metaphor for an insight into the reality of a clark??!! Is that what you want? Really?@ You want the unvarnished view into one of the three perspectives on the world and the people who make it up? Do ya? Well, you can’t handle the unvarnished… errr perspective.)
OK picture a desert island in the middle of a shark-infested-sea and the lone occupant, (you remember the single panel comic from when you were not old, the rounded mound of sand with single palm tree.
There it is. The clark on the island. Oh yeah, one other thing. The ocean surrounding the desert island? It’s lousy with cruise ships, full of travelers and vacationers and tourists. And they all wave. Some get on boats and land on the island, marvel at the environment and get back on their little boats to rejoin their friends on the giant boats…. and the clark remains standing, trying to understand what they’re seeing.
Like that. Except for certain elements of reality my own, actual reality: Una and Phyllis* and the Wakefield Doctrine and the Six Sentence Story and the challenge and attendant satisfaction of writing two serial stories, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘. And, when not at home: work projects such as the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing. The appreciated and possibly even critical hosts maintaining this bloghop, the likes of Dyanne and Mimi and Lisa and Patricia and, at the end of the day, having internet friends and such and a Book of Secret Rules (aka a Secret Book of Rules).
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oh, yeah and a reprint!! Below is the first installment of the bloghop that Lizzi created:
the tao of gratitude the Wakefield Doctrine (a blog hop that will not only be fun… but useful too!)
June 7, 2013 ByWelcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
…and welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ blog hop.
The idea-child (to organize a blog hop with ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ as the central theme), of ‘the Considerer’. Her idea of a Saturday blog hop offers to demonstrate an aspect of the internet that is truly remarkable. To have a community created by the thoughts and ideas (shared by) people from all over the planet… coming into existence for a day…spreading outwards through the blogosphere, passed along, modified enhanced then to fading from view…only to return again, different yet the same. How cool is that?
and…and!! there are 9 co-hosts! (the afore-mentioned Considerer), and
- A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall
- A Woman’s Place
- Bringing the Sunshine
- Finding Ninee
- Icansaymama
- Shoved to Them
- Steps into Parenthood
- the Wakefield Doctrine
Each week…
That’s about it for me, for this Post. While familiar of with use and value of compiling a gratitude list, creating a list is an interestingly arduous task! Not that I am ungrateful, (non-grateful?? anti-grateful?? hypo-grateful??? lol), for the things in my life, I have not engaged in a formal exercise before this…I will, without a doubt, be sharing my thoughts and impressions as the weeks progress.
And I am also a big advocate of bloghops… especially for those of us who spend a lot of time writing a blog. The hop (like this one right here) is an opportunity to ‘get out… meet new people, read blogs that you might not otherwise come into contact with… so add your blog to the place below that says sign up here… it’ll be fun.List of 10 things about/within/comprising my life today 06/08/2013 that I feel grateful for:
- coming to know interesting people such as Considerer, simply because there is no way I would have met her, were it not for her blog
- having the time available to write this post
- seeing examples of Posts as written by the other co-hosts
- having a family (wife and dog*)
- having known the perfect dog…Ola
- living in a climate that is only bi-annually of intolerable climate (lol)
- the 3 or 4 years spent on fishing boats
- the friends that I have
- the enemies that I do not have (at least not in large numbers)
- the invitation from Considerer to co-host this here bloghop here
Now the hard part! There’s supposed to appear some code for a button and an invitation to join us… all I need to do is get it right…. hold on….
Your hostsA Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall, A Woman’s Place, Bringing the Sunshine, Considerings, Finding Ninee, Icansaymama, Shoved to Them, Steps into Parenthood, The Wakefield Doctrine
About clarkscottroger
Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three…but mostly oneComments
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dyannedillon 
It’s certainly different as a formal exercise rather than just as a consumable when-it-occurs kind of thing. So far so good.
@Considerer
not a bad start (for participation, not my messed up Post lol) Like the diversity of participants (with this the first Post)… will watch the ‘late night’ (seeing how I have a 5 hour late window, that you don’t have).
Will check in on ‘the Facebook’
No – I’m rather impressed (though to be frank, much of the participation thus far seems to be down to Christine…) I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of inspiring posts the link in the Wakefield Doctrine brings – your readers tend to be highly considered people, so it should be fascinating. I shall send you a message over the facebook :)
@Considerer
they (readers of the Doctrine) are truly that. Lets see what kind of ripples in the reality fabric we can produce (having said that sort of cancels out the initial ones, but the secondary ones are the ones’ we’re after anyway)
Aww…sweet Ola. I still find myself tearing up over Hash Brown…new dog is cool, though, but still..sigh. Happy Saturday. :)
@Cyndi
I know how you feel, Ola will always be the first dog I think of… and with time the sharpness of the pain of loss has dulled, but the feelings haven’t, if that makes any sense…
hey! there’s an ugly rumor going around that the Progenitor roger might be calling in tonight! (don’t know if you have had the… experience of hearing the world from the rogerian perspective…)
A climate bi-annually intolerable? Ha!
Your list leaves me with so many questions. For example, where do you live? And where were you for those three or four years of fishing? And with whom? And why?
I do love the internet especially for the people I get to meet whom I never would have known otherwise.
Looks as if you got the button, but the link isn’t coming up. Perhaps when you added the song you cut off some of the code?
Happy hopping!
@Christine
…the fishing was out of Pt Judith (google will reveal that to be in Narragansett RI…which, coincidently enough is bodering South Kingstown…which has the eponymous Wakefield as it’s center of town!!)
Yeah, working on the button with Considerer…it was doing that ‘endless cycle’ thing even before the the music video (I was thinking of you as well as Considerer with the selection… do you have country music over there? no, nothing involving lutes, braziers with animal heads or pudding counts as ‘country’ lol)
You know most of what I am thankful for this week, but do add onto our friendship and having gotten to know you through the crazy world of blogging. So awesome this new hop and so happy you are co-hosting!!! :) :)
@Janine
lol you coulda warned me! (the additional stress of getting the button to place correctly*) the best compliment I have is to say, you get that FTSF bloghop out every day and work your J9 Design and look cool, calm and collected doing it. damn!
*not quite there, fortunately the driving force behind this hop, Considerer has vast reserves of patience for those of us who are more… blog-tech challenged
Spot on with #1! I have made such good bloggy friends that I would never have otherwise met! An awesome perk of the job!
@Dyanne
yeah… with you on that. What a strange and/or interesting place this blogosphere is…
Now that doesn’t sound like a trap at all…
lol
Thanks for co-hosting this great blog hop. I really enjoyed your list.
@Mary-andering
thank you… this is an fun and interesting project
I am following you from the 10 things we are thankful for blog hop! I enjoyed your blog!
@Jamie
thanks Jamie this has been a great ‘turnout’ especially for a Saturday…Considerer has really done yeomans work getting this first (of hopefully) the long blog hop
I am glad to announce the video is blocked in Germany. Again. FU GEMA! (sorry)
As for your list I totally love blog hops, too. And wow, you spent 4 years on a boat? Tell me more about that!
And I really love that your are also a co-host! Your posts are always special!
@Joy
wth??!! (oh, I’m sorry…. ‘was zum Teufel!?’ ) This must not be permitted, I will try another source, so check back in a little bit.
Thanks from the gang at the Doctrine (a dragger for most of the time the longest trips were only 10 days 2 weeks, like that!)
Aha! Rhode Island!
It seems Considerer and I have become such good friends, no one can tell that we don’t know each other in real life. I live in Indiana. Far from pudding and lutes, but unfortunately not far from animal heads. (We do live on a farm with animals that die on an uncomfortably consistent basis.)
Hopefully, the button issue will be resolved next week with our new code.
@Christine
I thought I saw a reference to the Midwest…but for some reason I thought I saw a ‘uk’ extension to your blog’s url. huh
Well, I will get the button straightened out for the next hop. I thought we did pretty well for a first Post, I saw a good viewer rate…especially for a Saturday.
Hey! that means (living in Continental US) you can call us on one of our Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drives!! It’s a conference call thing… questions are answered and new insights are generated… about the use of the Wakefield Doctrine, of course. I have been trying to figure out to integrate Skype into the call so Considerer and a couple of others from overseas could call in (without having to mortgage their houses).
Those are some great things to be grateful for!! I especially love the one about your family and about Ola. I was packing some boxes earlier and came across a photo of me with our dog Sasha from years ago. He was a gorgeous German Shepherd, and had such a lovable (although slightly doff) nature about him. I miss all our animals who have passed so much and it’s one of my fantasies that we’ll meet again one day. May sound silly – but they were family, not simply pets. And they have the most amazing personalities, don’t they?! Hope you’re having a fantastic weekend and enjoying the Spring weather up there!
@Melanie
totally does not sound silly! (being family)… Ola was ‘an only dog’ and frankly ranked higher (with me) than some of the human relatives…lol
Yes, we are near the Summer days are long very good thing (plus the warm thing)
Hey exciting news… we were talking on the Drive (the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive) with Cyndi and I was saying how I was trying to figure out ‘the Skype’ and a way to tie it in for the Drive so you and Considerer and Joy and the others in the ‘away places’ could join in and Cyndi being the geniusette that she be sea: why not use google+ hangout? (the rest of us i.e. Denise and Progenitor roger ) were all like… what did you say??! more to follow.
Yay to number 1 because all of you – these amazing bloggers that I’d never have found were it not for blogging…and I am so thankful. Love that you’ve known the perfect dog. Me, too. Happy Sunday, Clark! (and Scott and Roger – is Scott hungover today?)
@Kristi
totally agree about (canine set) they give something to clarks that no one/nothing else can
no, funny you should mention scotts, I was talking to the Progenitor scott this morning about… what else? the Doctrine and scotts (and rogers) and how we (clarks) are getting to the point with this thing that we will soon be drawing the rogers (who will never allow themselves to appear to be interested in something that is not already in the middle of a herd) and scotts (who, like their metaphoric paradigm are a single clark’s best friend…and a small group of clarks’ worst nightmare…lol)
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I love the idea of a blog hop dedicated to gratefulness and agree with you that the blogosphere offers so much to be grateful for. It’s so important to, I think, to practice gratefulness and a blog hop like that is a wonderful means to this end. I love your list, especially number 5. I’ve only ever had one dog, the rest were cats, but I know exactly how you feel.
@Katia
totally agree with this thought, though I will have to admit I don’t seem to inclined to reflect on life in the manner that writing a blog like 10 Grat… requires, but that I suppose is the benefit (for me) to participating. Plus it gets me out… you know how it is with a blog, all efforts get focused on producing new content often at a price of diversity and perspective. see you next week ( or next Friday at FTSF).
Ahoy! I almost couldn’t find you!
I attempted to find your site via your Blogger profile, but only blogs you follow were listed… and then…
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I was like… he is probably on that linky dohickey. And sure enough :-) and you are a co-host. Congrats! I know… I’m a genius almost all of the time sometimes!
I like your list and am glad you have a short enemy list. It’s best to keep that one short whenever possible. I don’t know how many arch nemesises… Nemesi… Hmm… Super villains I have stalking me from the shadows.
Good luck with co-hosting this blog hop. What was the music blog hop you mentioned taking place on Tue? I will try to check into it once I get the low down. I love my music!
Jak
@Jak
(what’s the Talking Heads line from Life During Wartime: I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times now, I don’t know what I look like) yeah not always easy to find us. But here we are, welcome! Jen and Kristi do the Tuesday music thing. Here I put in ‘the music video’ often ’cause I come across something in my research or when I wake up with a mind worm.
Any questions, let us know.