Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Created by Lizzi
Hosted by Dyanne
Co-hosted by Patricia, Lisa (and Mimi)
A (blog)post of ten,(more or less), items related to the experiential state of gratitude; id est, the people, places and things in our lives that elicit the psycho-spiritual state of gratitude (Latin: heus! Gratius multas*)
1) Una (In the photo above, being on guard is not merely a job, it’s a vocation). This would be a photo-from-winters-past. Not sure of the year.
Phyllis driving past my office yesterday. (See Grat Item Seven)
2) Phyllis
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) the Six Sentence Story the place for fiction suited to be read on the run, you know, tartine di finzione**
5) serial story writing and hanging out at the Six Sentence Café and Bistro. (including: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘)
6) the internet, or, to be more precise, the capacity of the www to allow people to make available a near-limitless supply of information, true and/or false; fact and fiction… it’s all good, ’cause, as the old saying reminds us, ‘Facts are like the familial designations aunt and uncle; they allow a more personal relationship with a stranger, if one chooses‘.
7) the business we have chosen*** which put us in a position to take a photo of Phyllis passing my office on an early Saturday afternoon as I prepared to take long-standing clients out to look at some new construction. It was fun.1
8) that real estate is so suited to the on-going study and practice of a certain, un-named personality theories. (ok, one hint: ‘It rhymes with wakefield doctrine)
9) something, something
10) S.R. 1.3 From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which is, in all modesty, one of the best of all features available to those who would write made-up stuff and would prefer not to get cited by some rhetoric maven (or mavette) who would get all strict-sixth-grade-English-teacher on yer ass, insisting that a good story has to make sense and adhere to a certain logical consistency. To which we say, “Listen Lady/Mister, this is the Wakefield Doctrine, we don need no steenkin’…” …yow! Exactly how much of the fictional/imaginary lobe of my brain has been coopted by old movie lines and song lyrics?!?! lol
* interesting, the role of italics in communication. That Latin phrase? Limit the italics to one word (multas) and you get a whole different emotion (thanks to the internet See Grat Six above)
** Full Disclosure: googlized Italian, trust we don’t offend any people who grew up in non-google world
*** yeah, movie fans will recognize that line from a scene in Godfather II
1) go ahead. impress us… (Hint: spoken by one of the lead actors in the Godfather Trilogy, in a 1980s movie. (Betcha Nick gets the reference.)
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About clarkscottroger
Canines are the protectors; walking wisdom in a fur coat.
The business you are in proffers a freedom of which I am jealous, lol (Very sweet of Phyllis)
Let’s hear it for the Six Sentence Café and Bistro!!
While I do not give thanks you included the Village People in your musical selection (no, no I did not have to hit “play” 😆 but I did), I am thankful for this, Lizzie’s creation, and for the current hostess(es) who offer the opportunity to join in the TToT every week.
(now, let’s see if Larry can rid me of the VP earworm….)
Larry worked for me…interrupted the relentless VG
The business you are in has always seemed to me to consume much more than the usual 40/wk, but it has its perks.
The snow appears to be melting and there is sunshine all around, and is that a foot tapping to the music I hear?
I thought you must have taken Italian in school. Google is my friend too.
Very nice TToT, I liked the Foggy Mountain video. We saw Flatt and Scruggs in concert at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1974 – fun memories.
Thank you