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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. (Weekly contribution motto: Words are like rain drops, drive fast enough and you won’t need the windshield wipers. You’ll get where you want to be, if you don’t mind a little blurry, stretched-out traffic light-looking things appearing in your path.)

Each week, posts are written by talented bloggers who share their insights and perspectives on life, the week just passed, and the people, places and things that cause and otherwise incite a feeling of gratitude. They let us link up too!

Created in late summer, 1998 by Lizzi, as she stood looking over the windswept moors of Manchester, just a scone’s throw from West Yorkshire. (The time-of-day was early evening, the weather harshly-pleasant and the mood, ominous. Or, so the story goes.)

This week from your favorite Doctrine:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) From summers passed: Click on This to go back to August 2013

5) the Six Sentence Story    Hey, you like to write? Made-up stories? Short made-up stories? We mean, really short. Then make a decision to write one and link it up at the Six Sentence Story bloghop. They have a prompt word, a near-Mother Teresa level of tolerance, (they let the Doctrine in each week), and I gots a gunny sack full a semi-colons to help you close that rhetorical suitcase. And…and! It won’t like, ‘Who the hell are these people? Or asking yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ You’ll see ‘people’ you know, like Pat Brockett and Mimi and Lisa and Romi and our own Tasmanian-hostinae Dyanne. Plus a buncha other people, like Ford Mage and Chris and Susan…. It’s fun. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

6) Serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) Speaking of windswept moors…here’s a photo of our thistle garden. (Damn! Just got an ’80s tune in my head.)

8) Hokey smoke! I used the Pat Benatar version of the first of this week’s music vid. I remembered that Kate Bush wrote it. Looked at (her) video. Got so Ed Sullivaned* that I stopped (forget which of the two versions it was). Then I came back. (You know how, on really windy and cold winter’s day you ran out for the mail without a coat and the shock of the temperature differential takes your breath away, lungs threaten to stop, but you push on, get the mail and then run back to the house and safety? The first minute with Kate’s vid was that. But, much in common with the aforementioned winter’s ordeal, I started to re-like it. (No, Dyanne, not music appreciation numbness!) Funniest comment on the youtube for this song and we’ll let you get on to the rest of the list. Someone wrote, Billie Ellish: ‘I make the weirdest music videos’. Kate Bush: ‘Here, hold my acid.’ lol)

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10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

* ‘Ed Sullivaned’. To be victim of empathy-backwash. Back, in the before-time, there was a TV show, the Ed Sullivan Show. It was a ‘variety show’, we could write five posts on the show alone, but our point here is that, as a very young clark, watching the jugglers keeping the plates spinning on tall, thin poles, if perchance, one would fall, I would feel embarrassed. Three hundred miles away, my face would burn and I’d glance around to see if anyone was laughing or scolding me.

Yeah, I’m a clark. I trust this makes sense to few Readers. (I got your back, Mimi, Denise, Cynthia…lol)

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