the Wakefield Doctrine

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

(no… I seriously have no idea why this image with this post)

Today is Sunday. This is (another) TToT Post. Still in the same bloghop, same weekend.  (New Readers/Participants! a ‘second’ List on a given weekend is not required/ is entirely optional, it is not a bad thing/ it can be fun, and finally,  you should not feel like you are expected to do 2 lists/totally should try one it can be fun. [If I get away with this one more weekend, I will be forever grateful to….[1] )

Today is Sunday. This is ‘a second Post’ for me. Still the first TToT Weekend of the New Year. (New Readers/Participants! the format of these Lists is left entirely  to you/the most commonly employed format is the numerical list, usually the items are in ascending order/if you’re feeling like throwing convention to the wind, descending won’t get you in trouble and finally, you can get all Louisa May on it and do away with numbering entirely… take a walk on the wild side! [2])

Today is Sunday. This is ‘the third item of what-hopefully-will-be a Ten item list. Still only Sunday Morning. (New Readers/Participants! it does, in fact, say Ten Things as the required number of things/there is a potential for variance, everyone writes lists with 10 things/except those of us how might have reason to have more or less than this eponymous number and finally, you totally have the right to break up a topic over multiple items, learn from a pro, kid [3] )

Today is not Monday. This is ‘not even halfway through a List of Ten things that I will claim to be grateful for. It is still Sunday Morning, but the time is slipping. (New Readers/Participants! it should be obvious to all that I hitched my wagon to a horse that may not finish the race/that would be a mixed metaphor if I had fleshed it out a little more, you might as well see the stressful, why-the-hell-did-I-go-with-the-three-in-one schtick? and finally, even when you do get yourself out on a literary limb, there are tricks/ legal or illegal there is an answer, come on, no guts no glory! [4])

Today is still Sunday. The is halfway through my Second List of Ten Things of Thankful. Time to bring out the big guns. (New Readers/Participants? Don’t tell anyone I told you, but there is a Secret Book of Rules/not available to anyone…at least not officially, the requirement for use is to have the (fill in the gender/demographic/writing-style/personal style/taste appropriate reference to nerve, courage, daring, temerity or balls …here) and the language that implies that you already know what’s in the Book and finally, seeing how I have opened the Book, if you will, I will cite Rule 7.7 (subchapter 5) that states, in part”  ‘if a participant commits  to a tricky list and totally finds (themselves) without the… whatever to finish, provided they₃ are at the halfway point (see Rule 3 for def of halfway) then you are permitted to claim an item credit that is the equivalent to 50% of double the number of items written so far’  …thank you, thank you very much [5],[6],[7],[8])

Today is still Sunday. My god! will this list ever end!?! Time to give credit where credit is due. (New Readers/Participants? This group is amazing, not just for the overall willingness of the participants to be helpful and supportive/after all except for the weekends when Rich Rumple and Jak are able to stop in, this is pretty much woman-ville (aka the Benevolent Kingdom of Xchromatopia), ask for advice/ do not hesitate and finally don’t listen to what they say about how scary Christine is or the warnings that if you are seen too much hanging out with Kristi, your writing career is veering off the path. [9])

Today is Sunday. All I need are photos (and maybe a music video) and I can get in the shower and get dressed and ready for the Wakefield Doctrine Sunday Morning Video chats with my co-hosts Lizzi and Michelle  (wait!! no…. I will be hosting with them not getting dressed or in the shower…that’s totally not what I meant).  Hey Readers!!  Yeah you new Participants!!  thanks for coming by, this TToT really is fun… and you want some one to blame for this train wreck of a Post?  Well head over to the Comments section and thank Louise (of ‘babygatesdown‘)  it’s all her fault!  see what she said?   “I sometimes wonder if there is anything Wikipedia doesn’t know….”  no, now that I look at the words I don’t have any idea how I got to here from there, but it’s true…that phrase got me going. somehow.  hey! Louise  everyone really want to thank you  lol  (It’s funny about blame… it grows irresistibly like the crush we all have on our 3rd grade teacher, the one who actually talked to you like you were a person or something and if that wasn’t enough to throw your emotional self into the volcano of puppy love, she laughed at your jokes like she thought they were funny!  (I will always be grateful for that in my 8 year old boyhood) [10])

I’m out!

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

New Year…mid-Winter break over  how much college metaphor can we get away with in today, the first TToT of the New Year.

 …you wanna know how committed to the spirit of this thing I am? this section is ‘off the book’, by way of a demonstration of the strength of my feelings, I will squander what, in the previous year, would have been Thankfuls enough for three weeks by writing it here, not in today’s list! (Bold words you say?) Well, that’s the new me… (who is kinda like the old me, but different). In any event, before we go any further, I just want to state, for the record, how much I am in awe of Lizzi and the thing that she has brought into existence here, in this here bloghop here. Sure, lots of us have ideas for blogs and even bloghops, some of us even do blogs and (a smaller group of us) try to start bloghops but very few succeed. Even fewer stay with (their) idea long enough for it to take on a life of it’s own. Lizzi has done this thing.  That’s all I have to say.

Ten Things of Thankful 2014 (Saturday 1st)

1) …in the middle of one of the more impressively cold winters, I am grateful that I am not (still) fishing for a living. If that were the case I would so  be colder than I am, it helps me to remind myself of that.

2) I am grateful for the Wakefield Doctrine Video chats, which started with Michelle and Lizzi, these live Posts (in a sense) are well on their way to becoming the next cool, blog-centric thing to do, people are starting to get comfortable with the    format

3) Numbered Lists and bullet lists.  Probably my favorite (and most used) ‘special effect’ available among the vast quantity of tools we all have at our disposal with Word. (‘though I should put in a good for superscript and subscript), wait wait! cannot forget italics

4) That there are other people, of like mind,  here at the TToT, and I don’t just mean only the people who enjoy bloghops, not even just people who enjoy Gratitude themed ‘hops, rather it is the people who have fun with words and thoughts

5) I have to put my work (in the real world) here as an item, both as ‘List Item’ and my own deliberate use of this format with the aim to cultivate the difficult but good life necessity, an occupation not always fun, usually satisfying

6) the Wakefield Doctrine, for continuing to provide me with the raison d’être  in terms of both the blog itself and the secondary benefits derived from the hours and hours invested in writing it, I have yet to feel like it’s a chore to write

7) dirty jokes! oddly enough one of the ‘Esprit de corps‘  features of the new vid chats!), credit to Lizzi and Kristi* as a way of dispelling the fear that what amounts to a live blog  Post aspect might come off as snooty,  otherwise intimidating

8) I am very grateful for both youTube and wikipedia, to be sure… the two mainstays of my blog-existence, I have not yet run into a word, a phrase, song or a song fragment that these two ‘places in the virtual world’ can’t flesh out

9) (Dirty Joke):” A man comes home from work, walks into his bedroom, and finds a stranger making love to his wife. He says, “What the hell are you two doing?” His wife turns to the stranger and says, “I told you he was stupid.”

10) The Book of Secret Rules (aka ‘the Secret Book of Rules) which, somewhere among it’s pages, clearly allows that if we choose to push past our own comfort zones in pursuit of self-development, you must be willing to take the chance and risk failure

Well there you have it! Ten x 44!

* I know it is not necessary and it goes without saying, but the Kristi credited with co-developing the ‘dirty joke’ feature of the vid chats is Kristi Campbell and not ‘our Kristi from the West’ (aka K2)  not that it’s a bad thing, but one would manifest it as a virtue and the other would not manifest it as a virtue (this relates to the Wakefield Doctrine as follows: while we all live in one of three worldviews, that of the Outsider, the Predator and the Herd Member and each (of these three) have certain …aptitudes, affinities for common life activities, like: occupations, avocations, callings, talents, bad habits and proclivities, no one worldview can lay claim to any of these. Another way to put it:  there are no ‘purely scottian‘ occupation, there are not hobbies that are ‘clarklike things to do’ all of these things/ideas/impulses exist in all three worldviews, it’s just that they manifest differently in each. Another way to put it,  “everyone does everything, at one time or another”. So, using our example of the dirty joke feature and our two Kristi(s). ‘dirty joke’ manifests as something distinctly and discernibly different in Kristi (from the West)” worldview as compared to Kristi Campbell’s. And right there is the mistake that we all make and is the reason why the Wakefield Doctrine is so uniquely valuable!  I said  ‘as compared to’  and that is not the best way to say it (or think about it). It (‘dirty joke’) is a different thing in each of these two’s worlds. One is not ‘the real one’ and 99% of our inability to understand the people in our lives arises from insisting that one of these is real and therefore the other Kristi is in denial, is not accepting things for what they are or prefers to insist that what she wants is her right!.  So, a little reminder that in order to use the Wakefield Doctrine you will need to allow for the fact that the reality the other person is experiencing can, in fact, be different.

(..yeah, Christine.  I kinda made up for the 44-words-only-for-each-item, huh?)  lol

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Lets start the year off right… live action.

It’s already the middle of Thursday, so I’m going to post this today and then do a more traditional Post tomorrow!

(Hey!! Cyndi… 42 words!!!  is this like Jeopardy where I can put this tiny number of words into my account, to be used to offset the first Post that I do that will surely be the beginnings of my back-sliding ways?)