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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is an exercise in gratitude. The object is to write a list of the people, places, things and events that have elicited a feeling of gratitude. These can be from the week that has passed since the last TToT. Or it can be something that happened to you in the third grade of elementary school. The power, (of this practice), lies in writing it down. Funny stuff happens when you set out to type your thoughts down on ‘paper’.

Dyanne? err yeah, she’s the host here. No, I don’t think it’s necessary that you bother her, she knows that we sometimes wander around, thematically-speaking. As a matter of fact, just the other day she was overheard saying, “That Wakefield Doctrine? Yes, they do tend to go on the occasional stream-of-consciousness bender at times, but no, they’re not dangerous. Probably. Just because your friend said that it was fun to jump off the railroad trestle into the river, doesn’t mean you have to do the same. Keep your eyes on your own post and nothing bad will happen. Probably.”

So lets jump into this week’s Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

1) Una (and three or four layers of reality*)

2) Phyllis (who has displayed the wisdom and maturity, after seeing the early rushes from this post), to say, ‘That sounds good. You have a picture of Una? Perfect.?’

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (all kinds of sine qua non evident this week).

4) work project/Wakefield Doctrine demonstration, the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing. We continue.

5) serial stories ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

6) the Six Sentence Story a good place to go to read flash fiction and a great place to go and post your own storyettes

7) early morning insights. (I will, to make it irrefutable that this is a Grat Item), include the game of solitaire as a necessary part of this, Grat Item, which, as we’ve just noted is an insight. Unfortunately the case with most insights into the nature of reality is that the half life of relevancy is only slightly longer than the memory of a night’s dreams. But, as with most matters pertaining to the subjective world, simply remembering that, for a second, you knew something incredible can be enough. You know, like looking down at the smeared-blue-ink stamped on the back of your hand in the early morning hours of Sunday and the thought that forces you into consciousness is a single phrase, ‘Wow, that’s how its supposed to be?.’ The insight today? The challenge in living the life that you believe you want lies not in bringing it into existence. The challenge is in accepting that it is already there in your world, all you have to do is develop the will to realize it.

8) The Book of Secret Rules, (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which is, arguably, the feature in this bloghop that allows us the most fun. Simply put: let’s say you have an idea that might seem a little weird, maybe its a novel approach to your presentation, all you need do is cite the Secret Rule (S.R.) and write a brief description, (of the rule), and reference a chapter and/or verse. Extra points if you use those squared-off parentheseses or, even better, do that thing with [o]ne letter of a word, that you see sometimes. Do that, and you’re free to go to town. Example: hypograts. It is permissible to cite a hypograt in a TToT** which is, a bad or unpleasant person, place, thing or event that happens but you’re pretty sure there’s a redeeming quality. (BoSR/SBoR Tip: if there is no positive to it, calling it a hypograt will cover you. When in doubt, check in with Mimi. She is our resident authority on the transformational power of good intent.)

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE Anyone got a Grat that you want try out on the big screen?

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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* Full Disclosure: took the photo and wrote the comment about reality yesterday… at least a week before I wrote the bulk of this post. Prescient? Sure! (Sounds better than ‘repetitive’. lol)

** ‘permissible’ is a funny thing. Technically, there aren’t actually any hard-and-fast rules that govern participation here. In her wisdom, Lizzi, just before she stepped back into the mists surrounding Gondor, said to the Hostinae gathered around her, “Each week, link up with a post of Ten Things of Thankful. If you have a problem with that and want to write three things or fifteen, then do so, what do I look like, a school marm? Write, read and comment, is all I ask of you… that and, keep an eye on that Wakefield Doctrine blog, no telling what that anorak might get into.”