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

Six Years.

1) Kristi for hosting

2) Josie for providing a stable declension*

3) Lizzi Lewis: 4 kree8ting this thing.¹

4) Scroll wheels***

5) Co-hostinae (see triple asteroid at bottom… the original Doctrine TToT post). It includes the list of the first hosts. Others have stepped up over the years and, to a (wo)man, all have done yeoman’s work providing an environment both nurturing and challenging, in the creative sense of the word.

6) Virtual people on Vacation. There was a seaside vacation weekend where virtual people gathered in the ‘real’ world. (I kinda gravitate towards the movie trope where, while we all believe we met in Ocean City, staying in motels, hotels and B&Bs, maybe to the rest of the people in the world, doors were mysteriously opening and closing, dogs were heard to bark in bed ‘n breakfast inns and laughter was heard at all hours from empty motel rooms.) But there we were: zoe, val, Denise, Sara, Kristi and others (hey, if I missed anyone…. trope, remember?)

7) Locked away in some achronologic closet are the early posts of Lizzi when she sported the sobriquet, ‘Considerer’. I met her through Kristi Campbell’s Finish the Sentence Friday bloghop. Given the insights afforded by everyone’s favorite personality theory, I knew Lizzi from the (her) first Comment that I read. I replied. I made friends with her guard dog.² In any event, the thing was, I was early enough in L’s blogging to see her first grat posts. She’d been convinced that it would be good for her to write a post listing the things for which she was grateful. Which she did. For weeks, into months.

By herself.

(Hard to imagine, but at the time, Lizzi’s blog would get one, maybe two comments every couple of posts. She was very much on her own.)

She continued writing her gratitude posts.

That is how you create a bloghop that has the power to last six years.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE.  Hey, we know you’re out there. Just stopping by for the celebration, out of curiosity etc? This thing we do here is for real. Send in your Grat Item (along with preferred attribution) and we’ll totally post it here at Number 8. We got plenty of room. (I mean, have you seen this post? It’s, like. all over the place.)

9) Phyllis and Una

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*something of a rogerian expression, a malapropism for the process of handing down a traditional activity, ‘sophomore successor’ might be more scientific, but admittedly weird. Lets stick with declension.

1. You want to know how a bloghop that can last Six Years is created?  Go to Grat Item #7

2. Lizzi was already friends with Christine at the time I replied (in full-on clarklike patois) to Lizzi’s Comment at the FTSF post. I swear my index finger hadn’t cleared the return key after submitting my comment when I got a reply …from Christine. ‘Hello. You’re new around here. Lizzi and I are good friends. State your intentions.’ I smiled at my monitor. Lizzi has a scottian** friend. I continued to smile and held out my hand…slowly. She turned out to be a lot of fun and I was recognized as being non-creepy. Where was I? oh yeah! back up to #7

** the Wakefield Doctrine loves metaphors, especially those drawing on the animal world. scotts? predators: think wolf, dog… loyal to the end, fiercely protective, chases anything moving away rapidly and will interpose their bodies between anything rapidly approaching and the members of their pack.

*** so we can post, like entire posts, down there↓

From the beginning time:

 

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

…and welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ blog hop.

The  idea-child (to organize a blog hop with ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ as the central theme), of ‘the Considerer’. Her idea of a Saturday blog hop offers to demonstrate an aspect of the internet that is truly remarkable.  To have a community created by the thoughts and ideas (shared by) people from all over the planet… coming into existence for a day…spreading outwards through the blogosphere, passed along, modified enhanced then to fading from view…only to return again, different yet the same. How cool is that?

and…and!!  there are 9 co-hosts!  (the afore-mentioned Considerer), and

1. A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall
2. A Woman’s Place
3. Bringing the Sunshine
4. Finding Ninee
5. Icansaymama
6. Shoved to Them
7. Steps into Parenthood
8. the Wakefield Doctrine

Each week…

That’s about it for me, for this Post. While familiar of with use and value of compiling a gratitude list, creating a list is an interestingly arduous task! Not that I am ungrateful, ( non-grateful?? anti-grateful?? hypo-grateful???  lol), for the things in my life, I have not engaged in a formal exercise before this…I will, without a doubt, be sharing my thoughts and impressions as the weeks progress.
And I am also a big advocate of bloghops… especially for those of us who spend a lot of time writing a blog. The hop (like this one right here) is an opportunity to ‘get out… meet new people, read blogs that you might not otherwise come into contact with… so add your blog to the place below that says sign up here… it’ll be fun.

List of 10 things about/within/comprising my life today 06/08/2013 that I feel grateful for:

1. coming to know interesting people such as Considerer, simply because there is no way I would have met her, were it not for her blog
2. having the time available to write this post
3. seeing examples of Posts as written by the other co-hosts
4. having a family (wife and dog*)
5. having known the perfect dog…Ola
6. living in a climate that is only bi-annually of intolerable climate (lol)
7. the 3 or 4 years spent on fishing boats
8. the friends that I have
9. the enemies that I do not have (at least not in large numbers)
10. the invitation from Considerer to co-host this here bloghop here

Now the hard part!  There’s supposed to appear some code for a button and an invitation to join us… all I need to do is get it right…. hold on….

 

 Your hosts

A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall, A Woman’s Place, Bringing the Sunshine, Considerings, Finding Ninee, Icansaymama, Shoved to Them, Steps into Parenthood, The Wakefield Doctrine

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Hey, I’m sure there is some sort of counter-part over in the UK that will allow this music video appropriate .  Let me know….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AZLUohDCGo

for Joy over in Germany, the country which apparently hates ‘the youTube’…we will try a workaround (hey, we grew up in the 60s….the man ain’t gonna tell us what we can or can’t do!!)  we’re tryin…