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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Created by Lizzi in the halcyon days of 1987, the TToT is currently hosted by Circe, Kansas’s native daughter, Dyanne.

The rules are simple, and by virtue of being, but suggestions, will aid in your enjoyment of this exercise, far, far more than they will burden you.

List the people, places and/or things that have recently, or in the past, elicited, stimulated or otherwise engendered a sense/feeling/state of gratitude.

For those of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine, this week’s citations:

1) Phyllis  —————————————————→

2) Una  ^

3) the Wakefield Doctrine sine qua non, is all, sine. qua. non.

4) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing (a work project) You could have us totally beholden to you, if’n you’d go over to our YouTube page Once there, you’ll notice a video has started playing, (it’s our most recent briefing). If you’d be so kind to click on the Subscribe button (and the Instagram and Twitter which are up in the lower right of the banner at the top of the page.) By doing so, you will help us get closer to the required number of subscribers for to be entitled to a custom url for our account.

5) Writing Practice (in the form of two serial stories): ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which, for any bloghop dedicated to, built upon a theme, as the TToT, is very much a case of replacing the 8 Crayon Pack with a 64 Crayon Box (‘With Built-in Sharpener!’)

7) The Six Sentence Story hosted by Denise. A source of marvelous flash fiction, freshly written and posted every Thursday

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (It’s true!) This, Item Eight, is reserved for anyone who, while finding the idea of participation attractive, hesitates. Write a ‘single’ Grat and pass it on in the Comments below, (am resisting the flashback to grade school…resisting….) too late, the only difference: while we will, in fact, share your message with everyone, the environment here, at the TToT, is markedly different from that of the fourth or fifth grade. One of the remarkable things about our host, Dyanne and her co-hostinae, Mimi, Pat and Lisa is that they remember. …what it is to be all the people in our little classroom metaphor. The note-writer, the note-passer, the note recipient, the teacher and/or the classmates/Readers that laugh, not to inflict pain, but to share in the human desire to connect.

9) something something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 [in part] “…[t]he progress (in) citing the precedent half of a List of Ten Things, ‘the first Five’ lends itself to the developing belief that the task will be successfully completed [ibid. ‘my god! I’m almost done!’] and, by virtue of being closer to Ten than to One ( ‘visus finis est, damn!‘) the feeling is valid as the final Grat.”

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