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This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Kristi is the host. This last weekend in Summer 2020, as she has since 1995^a, she invites you, (the inferred bloggers and Readers) to ‘stop by’ and spend some time reading (and writing) about the people, places and things in life that elicit the transmutational state of feeling gratitude. [It has long been maintained that the capacity to note situations that incite us to feeling grateful is part and parcel with the increased likelihood of a better (something) of life.] No, it’s true!

While its often tempting to dismiss a grat hop, (a bloghop with the theme of gratitude), as being all Norman Vincent Pollyanna(ish), speaking on the un-impeachable authority of a clark on matters emotional and such (stop laughing Mimi…lol). I will say without reservation that exploring the Grat Side of life is a total catalyst to self-improving oneself.  So, give it a read. Better yet, see what happens when you jot down a list (Ten are suggested, not required) of things that you are grateful for and link it up.

Surely the best thing about the bloghop-that-Lizzi-created, is its attitude of non-judgmental welcome. Each week you will find blog posts that are elegantly simple lists of the events of the previous seven days and you will find posts comprised of remarkable photos with captions that give an insight into the photographer’s state of mind when taking the picture. There are no rules or requirements, other than to be of good intent.

Loathe I would be to not back up my words with actions; what follows is the Wakefield Doctrine’s post for this week’s TToT. (Ed Note: Long-time Readers surely are smiling, having encountered previous Doctrine TToT posts that are prefaced with an admonition to suspend all thoughts of normalcy. May we say, of this week’s post, ‘Damn! That is one tasty burger.’]

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine Were you to spend a week or two reading every post in this here blog here, Item 4 below will resonate. If you’re a clark (or have a strong secondary clarklike aspect). For reasons not fully understood, once this blog came into existence, I found myself doing things, interacting with people in a manner, beyond my normal comfort zone. Thanks! Wakefield Doctrine!

4) technology and age. One allows, nay, enables an indulgence; the other immunizes me against a life-long state of self-consciousness. See below, Section A …er and B

5) Six Sentence Story Denise’s bloghop where we go to learn to write good.

6) work…cause it’s something to do between beating my head against the wall trying to write

7) Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia who, despite, (or because of), being a clark, has found the balance to do things that have a beneficial effect on the ‘real’ world.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) Early on in this blog, I wrote that personality theories are ‘club-shaped mirrors’. Originally, this was in the context of comparing the Doctrine to the more popularized systems, those with the incredible readership of Teen Beat, Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics and Hungry Homes and Gardens magazines. I wrote a scenario of a person looking up from reading and calling out to their spouse, “Honey! Come here, you have to take this test. They have you down to a ‘T’.” This concept is surely not wildly original, (‘Call 1-800-California Psychic. First Minute Free!’ and ‘Are you ENTB strong? Find out now! No minutes Free. Oscar Meyers, Briggs’), however during the years I was really active with Kristi’s Finish the Sentence Friday bloghop, I would often muse that what we write is surely who we are (or the bizzaro opposite writer).

In any event, the video selection this week is kinda out there. Hey, I don’t make this stuff up, I just write it down. At the moment I’m editing (this post) and it occurred to me that maybe the vids are in sync with the final (version) of this post!

Two words: ‘ayyiiieee!’

10) Secret Rule 1.3  From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which states, in part, “…to even embark on the journey towards identifying and [further]appreciating the things that generate a feeling of gratitude, well, hell, that’s the hard part. Or to paraphrase W. Allen: ‘80% of success is just showing up.”

Breaking a little with our practice of videos in the middle. lets thanks all the hostinae and other participants in this weekly thing, then, if you’re up for it, the …vids!

a) practicing a rhetorical device ‘unreliable narrator’

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