Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop
Hosted by Denise, ruled by a sole numeristic imperative. Six
Prompt word:
PUNCH
“…get the hell back here, I got a job for you.”
Lou’s voice rolled up the Lounge side of the Bottom of the Sea, and, like the true destructive power of a tsunami, did not manifest as anything as theatrical as a towering, white crested wave, destruction and death incarnate, instead it was as fundamental as a in change sea level; a reorientation to the norm, as he intended. Best way to describe the effect, it was like the adolescent-boy dominance game, (as if everything, at least until the arrival of girls wasn’t), of ‘Who can hit the lightest’, but in a metaphysical sense, of course.
Diane Tierney’s hand on my forearm was the reason the subjective and metaphysic view was not the sole guide for the Path of Man; at least not after the grandest of boyishly-mean pranks, the ‘You can have anything in the world except for this one thing;” I wrote a paper in sixth grade titled ‘Why I’d Rather God Punch Me Now and Get it Over With’; Sister Mary Imela was not amused.
Although some of us would like to think the world should be amusing with intervals of fascinating followed by happiness and contentment, I had pretty much given up on that view of Life; the touch of a hand reminded me why that was still, ‘pretty much’.
“A word to the wise, Ian…”
the overtone of caring to the lightly saracastic interrogative brought me back to earth, one that held the promise of life with things worth being serious about.
About clarkscottroger
From the title I can see why Sister Mary Imela would not like that paper. Nice description of what people search for: “the promise of life with things worth being serious about”
based (almost) on a ‘real’ nun
Perfect soundtracking (really love that ‘mix-up’) and I suspect that Sister Mary Imela is telling that story to everyone as if it’s her own.
ikr? those guys, half of the what I enjoyed about the vid is how much fun they seemed to been having
Sister Mary Imelda never did have a sense of humor.
no. no she did not.
“one that held the promise of life with things worth being serious about.” – I love this final line!
:}
Don’t mince words Lou, lol.
The title of that paper sounds about right coming from a 12 year old boy. Gave me a chuckle.
Yes, I guess for all of us, we have to be serious sometimes…
Plus, I love, love that song!
ikr? one of the best mashups I’ve heard
I don’t know about Get it Over With, Sister Imelda needs to Get Over It!
yeah, imagine that, a nun without a sense of humor!
lol
who am i to disagree? … !
A fine Six that again has me wondering… what does Sister Mary Imela find amusing?
the usual things, making life a little more challenging to young, still defenseless children