Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. Since the first installment until today, a span of over twenty-three years, the TToT has enjoyed the privilege of offering the observations of a remarkably diversified group of writers, all written to a common theme: describe, (and thereby share), those people, places and things that have caused them to experience gratitude.
Thats Ola, at the top of the post. She was a good dog.
1) Una
2) Phyllis
Bella (Phyllis was Bella’s alpha).
This relationship, all too rare in life, reminds us of our highest potential, while requiring us to give it our all.
3) the Wakefield Doctrine (the sine qua non of this here blog here)
4) Serial stories: ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘The Proprietors‘
5) Hey, that last serial story? Just getting started. It’s an experiment and practice in the writing thing. That said, there are Readers at that particular platform (Wattpad). You wanna be in a story? No, seriously! It (writing fiction) is way more fun than watching tv. Not so much ’cause we can do better, (example: ‘The Good Place‘ and ‘The Blacklist’. aii-fricken-yeee! such writing, such talent, such skill). But, you know what they say, if you want to get better at something, practice. (‘How do I get to Carnegie Hall?… ba-rum-bump!) So the story thing. If you want to go play in an unlimited and imaginary reality, let us know.
6) the Six Sentence Story. place to got and see how it’s done. Flash fiction at it’s best, serial stories, and one-offs. It’s all there executed by very talentacious* writer-people.
7) Progress on P’s cottage home office. rough electrical is in.
8) something, something
9) Work: continues to be a daily opportunity to self-develop ourslefs… not just professionally (though the most critical lessons learned in the real estate business are usually burned into one’s being. Hair was never meant to remain the same color, ya know?) but personally.
10) Secret Rule 1.3 ’cause what kinda club do you have if you don’t have secret rules. (Lesser known fact: the first club came into existence a ‘who-the-heck-is-that’ moment after the third person entered the world. (Wakefield Doctrine c. 2009-2022)
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music vids and such
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About clarkscottroger
We are very fortunate to have had Ola, Bella, and Una.
They make this mortal journey special.
Thank you.
You’ve had wonderful dogs, and that’s because you are wonderful owners. Talentacious is a good word.
Thank you, M
Some* grats are flat-out gifts.
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The owner being in the Alpha role makes life a little less challenging, coming from someone who has experienced it being an Alpha with one dog, and an Omega with another. There was laughter and frustration with the latter.
The cottage is coming right along! Looking good.
I experienced that last when we had Bella. Phyllis was alpha, therefore Bella was second in pack and that left me ‘spare human’ position.
All of our dogs have spent some time in bed with us (before retiring their own sleep areas. I distinctly recall the nights that Bella would do that ‘turn-in-place’ thing that dogs do, but every time, after reaching final turn, she would throw herself down between Phyllis and I with a bias towards my side. Most of the time I was not thrown out of bed by the impact.
lol