Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
“…the Triffids awake.”
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s (weakly) contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Once a week, since the dawning of the Age of Self-Reflective (current iteration of the Era of the Virtual World), we’ve been posting a list of then things, places and people that we could, at some later point in time, blame for inciting a state of gratitude*. This process is, fortunately, hypo-chronological, so, for instance, we can cite, in conjunction with Grat 8; Grat Number 6 (we also mentioned the acceptability of non-orderly ordinals, did we not?). We certainly hope so. Anyway, on with the list.
1) Phyllis (ever one should have an open-air home office)
2) Una (cool is as cool does)
3) the Wakefield Doctrine when was the last time, (not counting the previous 234), we said, ‘sine qua non‘? ok 235
4) the Six Sentence Story the place for flash fictionae
5) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro‘
6) road-trips from back in the day that demonstrated/illustrated/pontificated on the manifestation of secondary aspects relative to one’s predominant worldview. This example: our own predominant clark(Outsider) worldview as affected by a strong, secondary scottian(Predator) aspect. (Very clarklike tourism: on our way home from Salt Lake City (Hey! Joe!) we stopped by in Denver, rented a car, drove to Estes Park. Tried to participate in a guided tour of the hotel, bailed after thirty minutes of a three two hour tour… went to the parking lot took the vid-selfie, got back in car, drove to airport. Made it home by the rules.)
7) Something, something
8) Friend of the Doctrine Kristi might be looking to get the old band back together. (The old band being the bloghop ‘Finish the Sentence Friday’) …stay tuned.
9) work is varied, challenging and available. A mature individual might say, “What more could you want from life?” (In our defense, we might add, as a coda, “Well, there is that.”)
10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)
* from the French, au gratin; verb: to insist that even though one hates cheese, one should at least try it, one might be surprised…
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About clarkscottroger
Of Road Trips and Rite of Hat. Posterity shall hold them in precarious grasp and future generations shall marvel….
Say what now?! Kristi! What’s the scoop?!
Like i need another challenge, but i’ve enjoyed some Finish the Sentence Friday posts and might like to try my hand at one of my own.
I get that, FTSF was actually the first bloghop the Doctrine participated in… way back
Great list to tie the past and future to the present.
Thank you.
I think you should have bent the rules and STAYED at the Stanley. I mean, that place is legendary. I’ve been there only once, and only from a distance. It wasn’t even when I was growing up in Colorado, but one time when I moved back for a bit and a friend took hubs and me up to Estes Park for the day.
Also, Phyllis’ outdoor office setup is pretty grand. I might have to employ such a setup when our asphalt in the driveway isn’t melting.
That makes me think (because yes, my friends, I AM a clark) about how we have to have the A/C on during these summer months, right? I work at my computer and I have to be bundled up because the damned vent is right next to my desk. (Just the way the room is configured, else I would move it). So it can be sizzling outside and I’m in a light jacket and pants. And yet, I am way overdressed for everything else as soon as I leave my computer. The winter months I welcome in that if I’m bundled up, it’s because it’s legitimately cold and not artificially cold. I never thought I’d say it, but I’m looking forward to the colder months when I can wear a hat on my damned head and not be too warm for it.
My office is on the second floor of the building, offices downstairs and offices upstairs. Unfortunately, there’s a roger with an office on the same floor… (while not office Doctrine position, I believe rogers sweat more, or care more about sweating, than certain other predominant worldviews…(rhymes with ‘clark’). You’d think scotts would be big on ac but (excessive) heat does not seem, (to my observation), affect them the way it does rogers
Gotta love ‘the Everything Rule’ (i.e. “So, Wakefield Doctrine, how do explain the office situation?” ‘excessive heat’ manifests differently for each of the three