Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
“Una, stick her tongue at a passing dog? Preposterous! She would never….”
(Well, I’m sure they did something to warrant it.)
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Each week Kristi opens the ‘hop and invites all writers and people and such who are so inclined to link-in with their own accounting of Ten(ish) Things that elicited a feeling of gratitude in the previous week …(or month or that great summer between junior and senior year when the job actually enhanced the two and a half months of total Neverland; or the time that person said the thing that, though they had no deliberate intention, made possible a moment of clarity that improved your life).
Like that.
Without further adieu or ado… (kinda works either way). These are the things that incite the subjective experience of gratitude.
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) the Wakefield Doctrine: Among a ton of other qualities and benefits, its support of the notion of personal reality. Which, in turn, is a reminder that if there was a true and virtuous gift from a certain tree of knowledge, it would be perspective. Surely one would be hard pressed to argue that making the effort (and paying the price*) to see the world as the other person is experiencing it isn’t a benefit to one’s own life.
4) the Hobbomock Chronicles This week: Episode Twelve. Probably go live tomorrow or today (Sunday or Saturday, depending on when this arrives here…at the TToT.)
5) technology: two words: Music From the Before Time, (so very long ago) as we’ve posted below.
6) Cynthia (Friend of the Doctrine) and an outstanding example of the benefits that result from diligent effort in the name of self-developing oneself. Total power of example, is all.
7) Six Sentence Story bloghop fun and learning with wordage. It’s a challenge to write anything off a prompt word. It’s six times more trying to write a story off a prompt word and make that story be of six sentences in length. No mo’ no less. Six. You owe it to yourself to stop by and read (and, maybe even, write a story of your own).
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (No! Serially! If you’re on the fence about doing a whole post and sending it in, try a single Grat Item. Send it in a Comment and I’ll totally put it here at Numero Eighto
9) something something
10) SR 1.3. [chap 3 para 4.2: …[t]he Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) has one requirement, the individual citing a (given) Rule, must, perforce present an argument, no matter how specious, that the invoked Rule provides for the situation. example: SR 1.3 which states (in part) that the near-completion of a Grat List is, de facto, a reason to feel grateful and, therefore, is a legitimate item to include, nay, conclude a TToT list with.”]
* to quote a total fan of the Doctrine, “Ay, there’s the rub.” The price (of enjoying the benefits of perspective) is the highest of all. It is to surrender to the fact/opinion/possibility/dogmatic assertion that what you know of the world and reality, might not be the final and definitive description. And, the ironic part of this is that most of this first step, this surrender of self-defined certitude of the nature of reality is not as world ending as a part of us would insist. The threat, we hear in our heads, is that if we give up on our definition of the world being the only one, we will lose everything. Many would testify to the notion that we don’t lose one world, we gain a whole bunch of other worlds. Enough of the metaphysics, lets experience Grat Item 5 from the above list, with the second of the two music vids.
music
That was fun… who said, ‘Hey! Another one. That was so long a time ago.’
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Una, caught in a rare moment of self indulgence, shows her child-like side :D
Great list all.
Thank you for the shout out. I am thankful always for the enthusiasm shown the Six and for the wonderful people who stop in each week.
Looking forward to Episode 12!
me too
Maybe Una was blowing a kiss, as best a dog can. Thanks for the cheery post — it cheered me, at least.
that’s a thought… and glad you enjoyed the post.
Drexel is sleeping on (not “by”) my feet as I type this. Dogs are surely wonderful companions!
I’m thankful for technology, too, in regards to music. I just have to say, “Alexa, play, ‘________’, and I can listen to about anything I want to hear. Amazing! (Or, in the case of a blog post, just find it on YouTube and share it with readers!)
really. this technology is so helpful. (We were talking about writing in the old days, pen and paper… some still write in long hand, at least drafts. I can’t imagine doing that ’cause a)handwriting is bad to begin with and 2) how tiring would that be… typing is so less physically taxing. And given the volume of words needed to produce a relatively small post… aiiyee)
So I haven’t been to a TTOT in a while are the 7 virgins still around? Asking for a friend.
lol. I will ask around… still have the BoSR/SBoR so I’m sure they’re somewhere…
Oh the things we can learn from taking another look at our perspective vs how someone else sees it.
Does Una ever have a desire to jump into that water, given half a chance. Then again, as a former dog owner, that is a lot of fur to dry off. LOL
Is that a photoshopped dog tongue, cleverly done? Just had to ask.
No, that is technology in action… click that phone (camera) as fast as I can and, on occasion, be rewarded with the shot
Una doesn’t particularly like water (or swimming) I suspect because of her long hair, especially in her ears… she shows no inclination to go swimming,
Nice post, I definitely agree with the * footnote, it is way better to have multiple worlds.
thank you
Another awesome week!
ty, L
Sometimes an idea immediately pops into my head with Denise’s 6 sentence story word prompt, and sometimes I draw a huge blank. You’d think it would be easy to write only 6 sentences, but we both know it isn’t!
So not easy.
The blanks, in my experience, is the demon Standards. Fortunately I am mostly able to ignore the thought of whether what I write is any good. lol