Category: vockellrules
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10 Year Friendversary
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4Ocean
I’m trying to find some charitable cause that sparks interest in the Fellas. Ford is crazy for the ocean these days with his obsession of Percy Jackson, so the three of us have started to wear some bracelets from an organization called 4Ocean. For $20 they pull a pound of plastic out of the water […]
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Rule #27: great minds
Every day we talk about that fucking Harry Potter kid. In the car, at breakfast, during lay down, at the hot tub, I truthfully do not want to hear the origin story of the Deathly Hallows again or give a shit about their chain of ownership. We’ve been through this before with Ninjago and ninjas […]
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Rule #23: cut your sandwich
Me and the Fellas are on a thread around defining “who we are” by the “things that we do”. We volunteered at the ADA Walk, we try hard at practice even if in the common vocabulary of a six and eight year old, it is “boooooring”, etc, etc. We just added a new rule, #23, […]
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Rule #32: keeping a secret
The Team got first round information today that one of The Elder’s best friend’s mom was expecting. We talked about the nature of this kind of announcement, how it was their story to tell more than ours, and that for a period of time it was a ‘secret’. We discussed how it was a secret […]
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Rule #3: your vote is your vote
We make a lot of group choices, from meal selection to park destination to Ninjago episode selection. Part of maintaining the general atmosphere of justice is the equal distribution of selection. A lot of team sentences begin with phrases like “last time we went to dinner after basketball The Elder picked the Village Inn, tonight […]
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Vockell Rules #1: Protect the Team
I have decided to become more deliberate in the specific development of character with The Fellas. We’ve each now got a moleskin book with our name and Vockell Rules on the front. Over time we’re going to write in the ideas and guidelines that define us as Vockells. We started with Rule #1, but we […]