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

Cold afternoon at the office, pictures of Ola and a wall clock that might run backwards if I but find the proper key.

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Brought into existence by Lizzi in 1998, on a bespoke-pleasant day down Manchester way. Sharing a defining quality with the simplest of tools, i.e. handsaw, hammer, imagination and perspective. It works fine without knowing anything, with practice, it can result in miracles.

Each week, any number of writers, thinkers, dreamers, procrastinators and some who were drawn in by the promise of music and company; a list of Ten Things. These are gathered and curated by our current hostinae, Dyanne. Among these writings: inspired reflections, graceful insights and… the shoebox of toys and odd things, (not so much gathered as retained for the potential of an un-defined future use), that is the Wakefield Doctrine.

Following are those gratitudinous occurrences that have….err occurred over the last seven days.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine because with an additional perspective and a determination to shame Helen Keller, a person can find within, worlds and lifetimes they did not live, nevertheless exists and is, much more importantly, available. The price: the willingness to set aside the conviction that the world we were originally taught, is the only reality. A simple decision and the door will open to more than we can imagine.

4) Serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

5) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing Because knowing too little can be expensive. Each week the topic of buying and selling real estate is brought out, spun around and considered from as many different angles as we have time for.

6) the weather in New England… how, in as little as twenty-four hours, we can go from conditions illustrated in the photo above, to a day where the temperature fought vainly to escape ‘the 40’s’

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop the place for flash-fiction.

8) something, something

9) the technology that makes all this possible

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (which legend has it, was the legal basis for God’s admonition to Adam and his second wife, Eve; legal scholars have made careers on arguing ‘without a Secret Book of Rules, what kind of teeth does that leave the person/institution/Supreme Being when it’s time to rain down the lightening bolts and righteous …. brothers?  what the hell do Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield have to do with the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)?!! ohh!  ok’)

music vids

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(hate to say it, but I prefer the Hall and Oates cover)

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