Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
“Today’s lead photo? Two words: ??!?! lol*”
As I’m sure you’re all aware, the torch/baton/standard has been passed along, once again. Josie Two Shoes has found herself a ‘maîtrise d’ouvrage’/majordomo/Curatoress/’Expéditeur de Lien’ who, being possessed of the qualities that reflect the tradition of this here bloghop here, has agreed to …(all the cinnamons and semi-latinized french words) already cited.
Seriously though, we all are, technically, entitled to submit a Ten Things of Thankful post this week with three items*: Lizzi, Josie and Kristi.
But, since this is the Wakefield Doctrine (and a refuge from the normal and predictable), we’ll simply post the following (block quoted) reprint post:
(From Josie’s Inaugural Post)
There’s an old saying, ‘a good thing that is shared, will never be lost’. This would very much be the case with the TToT. Originally created by Lizzi Lewis and shepherded through the early years, Our Miz Lewis did what all successful people do, she shared a passion.
Josie has taken up the (there should be some humorous analogy here, but I can’t think of one). Bottom line, she has taken the helm and the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop continues. The ‘rules’ are simple: share ten things that/for which you are grateful for, from the week immediately behind us or any time.
1) Lizzi for creating this thing
2) Josie for continuing this thing
3) the internet for providing the place for this thing
4) my work for allowing me the resources to afford the technology to access this thing
5) Phyllis for creating an environment in which I have become increasingly aware of the parts of my life that I can reference in this thing
6) the reasonable good-sense (almost) to know when a semi-clever rhetorical thing has run it’s course, (fans of horses will applaud this description)
7) Una for being a constant power of example
8) I’m grateful for having come to know Almira Ristani Gulch, the co-central character in ‘Almira’
9) I’m tempted to say, I’m grateful for having gotten this far in a list, which by virtue of being the first in the new order (of Ten Things of Thankful) without getting too weird
10) I glad that I didn’t
2) Transitions, such as that occurring this week, can be experienced as triumph as well as anticipation, excitement as much as gratitude. The people who have taken on the not-in-considerable task of organizing and making a bloghop available, welcoming and easy-to-use, have earned not a mere, ‘Why thank you. We have been fortunate.’ Rather we hope, in this post to convey a certain element of (emotional) response that includes: “yeah!” “alright!!” and ‘that-classic-high-pitched-whistle-usually-involving-two-fingers-to-the-edge-of-the-mouth-executed-by-the-nearest-scott‘ (We’ll leave you to go youtube it up….)
3) Una and her Garden (photo to follow)
4) Phyllis and her Una (photo to follow)
5) Kristi for offering her time and energy to the daunting task of hosting the TToT
6) May (over at the Gravity Challenge) … just because.
7) the Six Sentence Story for continually providing a place for me to write what I now take great solace in referring to as ‘flash fiction’. (As opposed to, ‘well, clark, thats a fascinating idea you have, with a little more time and effort, it could be a reasonable first effort at learning to write a short story.‘) (lol)
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (you know, if you’re still a little a’scairt of submitting a full TToT, in no small part attributable to what you’re having trouble believing you’re seeing on this particular post).
9) Sunday Supplement
10) Secret Rule 1.3
* that would be: the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) 3.42 (which states, in part), “… when a change in the host(ess/inae) occurs, then the photo used to lead off the post may portray the spirit of the referenced people, whether past, present or future…”
While I used Bob Dylan for subtitle purposes, I will make a substitute for the version of the Dylan song, simply because this is one of those ‘cover-better-than original’
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Thank you Josie and Thank you Kristi – I enjoy the TToT.
Fabulous post, all, Clark. Indeed, without LIzzi there would be no TToT and without Josie would it have continued? She was a most excellent curator. I’m excited that Kristi has taken the mantle of stewardship for this most excellent of blog hops :)
thank you…. she will surely take this ‘hop in a direction that will enhance the experience for all of us
It is fabulous that we get to keep listing, isn’t it?
tru dat!
The “post within a post” technique is pretty cool. Thanks for the warm welcome; I think the previous examples of Lizzi and Josie, combined with the kind TToT community, will make the task of hosting not quite-so-daunting as it otherwise could have been. (Oh, and that photo of Drexel–you have permission to use it anytime! :-) )
You are welcome. We’re all grateful for your willingness to take the helm.
Your Sunday supplements and “this space available” crack me up. They always remind me of the realtor world in which you have signs with “this space available” and “a supplemental package to the addendum” (or whatever, lol).
I’m always grateful for the Doctrine, and grateful for Phyllis and Una – who are such fun! Looking forward to seeing more photos/vids of them. :D
Add in the Sunday supplements. Plus….plus! a new member of our free range animal preserve… that raccoon. Likes bread (which is what he/she is after in the late-Saturday-photo-op)
‘A good thing that is shared, will never be lost’ indeed! Great list, and I liked the blog-within-a-blog- technique as well.
thank you, Vi
Well done to all three at starting and maintaining the linkup! I loved your lists, especially the first one!
kinda wrote itself, non?
It was nice to read that reprint of your post.
Una’s garden is looking good and of course Una is doing her job of keeping it corralled. LOL
The raccoon is a retriever. . .hmmm…of a piece of bread?
well, technically, an onion roll.
(the side yard at our house is kind of the free kitchen for the smaller fauna in our area… the raccoon got the first half (of the roll) ran off when I went out on the deck for a photo but came back (I decided to take the second picture from inside)