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

Fast week, no? Seems like only seven days ago I was sitting down typing the skeleton of my Ten Things of Thankful post.

How to play?

Easy! Write a post that includes/refers to/is about/or contains a list of things that elicit a feeling of gratitude. People, places or things. This week passed or the week of May 5th 1973. It’s your choice.

Then? Thats the exciting part. Link your post to the link-your-post-thing at the bottom of this post (or anyone else’s post) and, you in the club.

It’s fun and beneficial, to write (a post) and to read (the posts of the others). For your reading pleasure, we are including a music video of a song that while last longer than it takes you to read this post (and a couple of other posts) will not be too distracting. (lol)

New readers? Concerned about requirements and standards and, ‘sure I get it, but those other posts are so heartfelt and well-written, I don’t think I have a full Ten Items, maybe I better wait and see‘? Worry no more!

While the founderess, Lizzi ‘no-relation-to-C.S.’ Lewis set the Thankful number at Ten (10) (X) (5 + 5), this bloghop is about sharing, not competing. Good intent is the only requirement. Hell, even things that you’re not grateful for are eligible. Kristi is our host and works diligently to make certain that this bloghop and Iron Butterfly are here for your listening-while-reading-pleasure.

Where was I?

oh yeah! Come on down. If you’re still reading this, clearly you’re into the whole blogging thing. Let this Doctrine post serve as an example of what Kristi and the gang seem willing to put up with.

OK. I’m about halfway through the quintessential drum solo from the 1960s. The goal is to write a Post while listening to one of the iconic songs of the 60s (Younger Readers? Don’t get it?  awww. and all you have is youth… boo hoo) lol

Heavy on the photation this week…

Weekapaug Rhode Island

1) Phyllis would enjoy living in a house such as the above, but not as much as I would. (A better way to say it, I must have a more expressed Brontë-gene than she does, as she prefers the deep woods over the endless ocean.)

2) Una. She is happy wherever she is, provided Phyllis and I are near (or scheduled to return soon).

3) Technology e.g. the camera I pointed out my passenger side window to catch the above shot. (Full Disclosure: I sat there for, like, fifteen minutes clicking for as long as my index finger could hold out.  ….on the camera pictured in Item4.

(Hey! New Participant! An example of a Hypograt Item:)

4) Hypograt Item. This camera. I use it for work, bought it to replace another, different-but-similar camera that I wore out. The problem with this camera is that it was designed by (wait for it…) rogers.  Yes, I know, rogers are the reason we have airplanes that stay in the air and computers that offer miracles in communication and social-interactivity. This is because rogers live in a quantifiable world. For them 2 + 2 always (and only!) equals 4. Thats a good thing when riding along at 35,000 feet in the aforementioned airliner. The trouble starts when there is no constraint (this is true for clarks and scotts, but thats for a post in the coming week). For a roger, ‘more is more’. In the case of the photo’d camera, the marketing guys apparently left ‘final feature’ decisions to the engineers. This is an inexpensive, ‘pocket camera’. Not a full-on photographers camera, like Nikon or Hasselblad. Point and shoot. Problem is, someone thought, ‘hey! it needs a touch screen.’ Long story short. Turn it on, breathe on the touch screen on the back and the camera starts cycling through modes. ‘Landscape…. Portrait… Selfie… Portrait…. Portrait… lol.

5) Grateful for having lived through the 1960s as I did. The song above? Yes, there was a time when popular music included entire album sides as one song and drum solos that went on for as long as they make it look in Spinal Tap. (“Why yes, children, the ’60s were a different time. Life passed at a slower and more…technicolor… stereoscopic pace. People wore vegetables and said ‘Man‘ and ‘oh wow!’ a great deal more than they do today.”)

6) The work I do for having the flexibility in scheduling as to allow me to be writing pretty much any time of day, any day of the week.

7) Open Houses and the challenge to write a flash serial story. ‘Interlude’ is such a story. It was started while sitting in an Open House and, in fact, the story begins with an agent in an open house who, waking from hitting his head in the basement, finds the house above him full of people enjoying a summer gathering in… 1967. Fun story. If you want to join in writing it, let me know. It is the Writers Club, after all.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. (Anyone want to participate, yet are encountering resistance (from within or without) to actually hitting the Publish button… we feel ya! Send that Grat Item in as a Comment along with any and all desired attribution, recognition, indemnification or best wishes, to us and we’ll totally post it here at Number 8

9) Sunday Supplement. We went for a walk.  Here, take a look.

10) SR 1.3 (which states, in part: “the approaching completion of a list of Ten Items of Thankful constitutes the basis for an Item of Thankful, subject to: a)completion of said list, 2) statement acknowledging that the emotion/ emotional state referred to viz. thankfulness has been experienced. Tradition mandates this final item be positioned as Number 10.“)