Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the weekly bloghop that invites all to ask the question, “Sure, things didn’t, like, totally suck this week, but was there anything in my last seven days that made me think, ‘Hey, that was cool.’?
The exercise of any gratitude bloghop, imo, is not only to encourage introspection, but to engender a certain perspective that, one can argue, is intrinsic to the experience of gratitude. It’s not, (again, imo) merely a matter of bookkeeping and record-keeping of life’s events and occurrences at the heart of a ‘hop like the TToT, it is the feeling of sharing another’s effort to consider the people, places and things that happen and occur in their lives that causes the Reader to think, ‘Yeah, that the spirit.’
To start the proceeding, a shout out to Kristi who has the not-so-easy-as-she-may-make-it-seem, keeping this here bloghop here open to all who’d participate or just plain stop by and read. Thanks, Kristi
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). This bad boy is the Solomon Stone of those of us who are very much into the blogging thing, but find, as is the nature of the game, at times lacking in fresh ideas. All it takes to advantage oneself of this powerful tool is the slightest remnants of memory of school days writing reports and term papers. That and be willing to employ a noun as a verb. op.cit, binyons, op.cit.
4) Speaking of the BoSR/SBoR, I will employ SR 32.5 that permits the exist and promulgation of Items of Hypogratitude. This week’s hypograt in two words: Autumn
5) after a bit of soul-searching* I’ve managed to publish Chapter 16 of my serial, ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’
6) * Mimi commented on the story, to the effect that she thought she would read it from the first chapter. The flaw to serial stories, especially when on reads it in real time and the interval is seven days or so, it a degradation of the immediacy of the action. That said, whether intended as advice or not, I found it helpful to re-read the story myself as I (re)-gained an appreciation of certain characters. Thanks, Mimi!
7) something, something
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE Man! there surely is a Secret Rule that would let me leverage this all-to-admirable Item into, like a whole TToT? (The answer is: Sure, if you want to create a Stream-of-Conscious sinkhole that may seem like something a wheelbarrow of fill will eliminate but, with others reading my words to myself, aka an act of self-generated gratitude. Well, the virtual world may not be as limitless as we’d like to believe.
9) how about an old Road trip vid? Sure, seeing how it is currently beyond Summer, lets go somewhere (in space and time) where it was/is even colder… Hey! Kristi Campbell lives out that way… (but not when the vid was made.)
10) Secret Rule 1.3
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Nice TTot
Speaking of Una – she has a birthday on October 14.
time, she doesn’t not slow do, not for no one!
Thank you for a post that always delivers, and you’re welcome. By the way, this blog is now appearing in my feed again, but i still can’t comment from there. Oh, well, we can’t have everything, can we.
I wonder if it (appearing in your feed) is related to where I link-in to the ‘hop. This week I added my link at your site. Will try to remember to use a different starting point next week.
Awesome as always!!
Una’s got me wondering what has got her attention. . .ducks, fish in the water, or squirrel on the other side? Great photo.
the enjoyment of the moment, surely dogs exhibit that quality above all others… (credit to Phyllis for the photo)
It’s a good time of year for talking about the Stanley. Ooh, did you stay in it, or what it a day trip? I love haunted house shows, and ghost story shows this time of year. Now? It is a clark-thing? Not sure. That depends on whether you like fun scary shows, too. Or not.
It’s been a good journey, this modicum of not posting. Ah, I won’t have a post for tomorrow, I don’t think, but I will have a goodly amount of fodder for when I do post – soon. It’s just been nice to have a bit of a break. And you’ve seen that I’ve started a new lil project that I’m quite enjoying. You know me…I rest a bit and then start something new. Story of my life. I’m not sure what aspect of the three worldviews that compels me to come up with new projects for myself all the time, but here we are…any tao te ching for your tea time discussion today? 😂 I hope you’ve had a great weekend. I’m always grateful for the Doctrine.
Thank you for the comment/prompt! See Monday. Have a good week!
Thanks for the kind words.
Una has a birthday coming up? Happy birthday to Una! How old is she? (if that question is acceptable to her) Drexel will be 7 next month, and I’m amazed at how quickly time flies!
I need to catch up on the book. I think I’ll have to go back and start from the beginning again, too. (There’s a reason that TV shows have the “Previously, on this show” blurb at the beginning–it’s for people like me!)
Certainly.
I think 8? (For a person who has an internal clock that allows me to wake up at a designated time or say, ‘OK thirteen minutes have elapsed’ I am terrible at ages)
It (the Case of the Missing Starr) has been fun (mostly) and educational (always) to write… that’s a very good point about ‘previously’ given the intervals, 1 week, that is asking a lot of the characters to make a lasting impression.
Oh, my comment was not a statement about your characters! Rather, it was a reflection on my own ability (or lack thereof) to immediately remember a storyline after being away for a while. Besides, when I re-read something, I do a better job picking up on foreshadowing and other interesting details!
valid point and an inherent problem with serial stories… maintaining the story line when installments are a week apart.