Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Well, I’m glad you asked! You know how, most of the time we come up with ten things that are a part of our lives in the week past and it’s not too hard to see how we should be grateful for these things? And we have all had bad weeks when we have more trouble finding the things that makes us feel grateful for our lives and sometimes in the course of these…. difficult weeks we will look at the bad things and say, ‘hey this is not the way I would have liked the week to have gone, but things are getting better’… lets call this ‘finding Things Thankful, the Comparative Approach’. …now hold that thought.
Thought I would share with you this tiny, little, story stuck in the lower right corner of Page A7 of Friday’s Providence Journal ( btw, an AP story re-printed in this paper)
Headline: Raccoon attacks woman in bed.
A Massachusetts woman is recovering after battling a rabid wild raccoon that awakened her in bed.
(lets, withhold the name, she’s been thought enough, ya know?), 73 of _ MA says she was asleep Wednesday morning when she felt something on her face. She thought it was her cat. She said the raccoon clamped onto her face, biting her chin and lip, and it left the room after she beat it with her bedside telephone.
(the rest of the story has to do with the cops showing up and trapping the desperate animal who then proceeded to dying in a hail of gunfire (my description, not the newspaper). The woman is being treated for rabies.
Any interpretation of the Book of Secret Rules says that: not being this woman is easily 3 Items!
1) not being that woman
2) not being 73 years old
3) not waking in the middle of a cosplay involving a recreation of a scene from ‘Alien’
4) in a more….normal, traditional recollection of the things I am grateful for, I am grateful for last night’s Vidchat… very much what this medium has to offer, i.e. an opportunity to meet new people and have an extended conversation with friends and acquaintances from, literally, all over the globe
5) I have, of late, been including some aspect of the winter weather, all of which have been intended to trick me into feeling better about the cold and the snow and the ice and the cold. This week, I will say that I am grateful for WD40! The snow we had mid-week was of the ‘wet snow’ variety, aka ‘heart attack snow’. Not fun, but not the end of the world, I just end up getting a better workout. Unfortunately, there was just the right combination of temperature and humidity that combined to result in snow that constantly stuck to the shovel. Big shovel full of frozen water, swing arms to the left, watch the shovel (still full of snow) continue its graceful trajectory into the snow bank. WD40 to the rescue. Sprayed on the shovel: instant no-stick-shovel
6) Reader response and participation to a ‘test’ on the Doctrine this week resulted in my acquiring a new and enhanced appreciation of the grasp and understanding of the principles of everyone’s favorite personality theory. It’s not that I haven’t always known that the people who found the Doctrine interesting, more it was my over-estimation of how badly written and organized the blogsite itself is… not enough to stop Jean and Dyanne and Michelle and zoe and Lizzi and them.
7) I should say something about being grateful for work, as the demands are increasing and I have had an opportunity to gain a more realistic perspective on the requirements of time involved in the work I do, I am grateful that I noticed that I need to re-apportion the time I devote to certain aspects of earning a livelihood, sooner rather than later.
8) I am grateful for the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules).
9) Not certain that I want to cite my very perceptive and discerning co-hostinae, suffice to say my respect is sufficiently established for me not to try and (further) capitalize on the aforementioned Rule Book. (as everyone knows, the BoSR, is meant to be used, not abused…unless it iss self-abuse, but even that has certain limitations not strictly defined, but left to the group consensus.
10) (not quite a repetition of a previous item) but I do want to shout out to Kristi for her thing today… she has chosen to participate in a competition of sorts…something about mothers and blogs ..or something, but I like Kristi so I will say, go! Kristi!! (and remember what I suggested about how to end your audition if the Judges do not demonstrate a reasonable courtesy and respect.
…ok back to work here…. will check back in later in the afternoon.
