Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop.
This is where you get to write about the people, places and things that elicit the emotion of gratitude and, by linking your post to our host Kristi‘s join in with a group of talented bloggers, all offering a stylistically-unique accounting of their experiences.
The beauty-part of this bloghop is found in that variety. Of course, there is no shortage of ‘hops with gratitude as the unifying theme, many are quite good. None as enjoyable as the TToT, imo. Not the least of the reason, for this discrepancy, is that none of them have a certain Book, among the resources available to participants. (The Book is referenced, cited and slightly-explained in Grat Item 6 below.)
My list of Ten Things that elicit the topical emotional response includes:
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) new (prototype) drinking vessel
4) Fun in the woods with a chain saw and a barely-sufficient cardiovascular system. Hey, the adrenaline potential inherent in the former will surely offset any sub-par performance by the latter. (See photo at the top of post)
5) the cedar trellis
6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) is a true gift, especially for one as emotion-challenged as YHN*. At it’s heart, the BoSR/SBoR provides carte blanche to all TToT bloggers; we may invoke any rule, cite heretofore unknown references and, generally, get out of any trouble encountered when writing a TToT post. Provided that we write a convincing reference to the rule we choose to cite. (Including too many or too few Grat Items.**)
7) Grateful for Kristi noticing that, although I posted a TToT post last week, I overlooked the linking to the group. She took care of it. She’s that kind of bloghop host.
8) Six Sentence Story. Something interesting coming up in the week ahead, over in the Land Of Brevity. One of the participants, Len, wrote a Six involving time travel. I wrote a comment and mentioned how much I enjoy the subject matter. He graciously mentioned he’d enjoy seeing what I might do with time travel and Six Sentences. And, with the peculiar secret-push-from-behind-to-stumble-out-in-front-of-the-gathering-exo-impulsiveness that has been characteristic of my experience since starting this blog about the Wakefield Doctrine, I was all “Sure! It’d be fun!” I proceeded to tell Len about the fun Valerie and Pat Brockett and I had doing a ‘crossover Six Sentence Story’ a couple of years ago. I wrote my Six from the story world of ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’, sent Val and Pat a copy of my Six, (ahead of the deadline), and they both wrote Sixes that had my story as the jumping-off point for theirs. Very cool.
So, in the interest of breeding butterflies and cranking up the spotlight, I’ll come up with a Six set in Len’s story, ‘Time Travel‘. See ya Thursday at the ‘hop.
9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. Anyone desirous of participating, but just want to try it a little, before committing to a full post, send your Grat Item in a comment and I’ll paste it here.
10) Secret Rule 1.3
* Your Humble Narrator…. like the designation
** Not that there is a hard-and-fast rule on the number of Items.
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About clarkscottroger
What are you building with the trees?
#7–You’re welcome, though truth be told, my mom noticed and alerted me. She wasn’t aware that it was possible to link up another’s post, or she probably would have taken care of it.
Cool mug!
Actually nothing yet. The photo is for an associate at the office, he was thinking it might be cool to build a teepee with his (young) son and so I sent him the photo.
The stack is the result of my brush pile (20 years in the making) clean up last year. Figure they look neater all together and such.
Thanks… working on designs.
It is as thankful to read and listen to the rest of the post as to simply read your list!
thanks, Mimi (as fun to write*)
*Wakefield Doctrine Post-writing motto: “Filters!? We don’ need no steeken filters!“
Cool mug. the Wakefield Doctrine mug next?! Logical progression from clothing to dishware, no? :)
LOL to #4. No doubt there exists a mathematical theorem to support this :)
As to #8 – look forward to your spin off 6.
Eclectic set of tunes. Like it.
first prototype. not quite happy with it… doesn’t look like the vague image I have of a faculty coffee mug… needs to have the printing on two sides, somehow and maybe a different font.
btw if you’d like a project, you could produce, perhaps consulting with Cythnia as she has the best of of Doctrine clothing with her hoodie (or is it hoody)?
Hm. Think I know what you mean. And perhaps have that brand new “distressed” look, lol
Why, that is a good project idea. Why didn’t I think of that >;]
I like the cedar trellis that adorns the roses; makes them look like Hela (Thor).
I also like the picture of you working in our version of Fillory.
yeah, me too
You cut all that wood?! A chainsaw doesn’t weigh much less than you do, so it’s impressive no matter how much you cut!
not all at once! lol
(the result of taking apart a 20 year brush pile and the surrounding trees)
I am looking forward to reading your SSS this coming week.
I chuckled at your #4. Oh, the things we (those in my household) attempt to do as though we still had the energy and strength we had in our younger years.
What a great cup for said author!
agree, better, as long as reasonable prudence is included, to try and not succeed as much as the mind might hold than to not try at all
All your ambitious energy! We rearranged the living room and ended up repairing the couch leg.
it (all the work in the woods) serves as an exercise as I have no patience for regular, gym/health club type exercise.