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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Brought to reality, in the summer of 1979,  by Lizzi* The TToT is, at last report, the third longest-running grat blog.

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It was, “the worst of times, it was the worst of time” except (or perhaps in reinforcement of the chaos of culture), Pink Floyd released ‘The Wall’**

Currently the host of the TToT is Dyanne. Aided by her co-hostinae, Patricia, Lisa and Linda-Lou, she invites one and all to join each week as we explore gratitude as it manifests in our lives.

Somewhere at the bottom of the page, are the links to where the other participants, who have applied their good intentions, considerable writing skills and graceful expression of the topic, hang out.

The Wakefield Doctrine is here, somewhere… betcha you don’t have any trouble distinguishing one from the others.

So, before incoherence totally claims this post (like a scott, walking away from the cafeteria line, confronted with a very large room divided, like candy in a Coinamatic, by melamine-covered, four-by-eight foot tables; some are exclusively occupied by rogers, one or two mostly clarks but, never is there a table full of scotts (unless the table had, until a moment before was where the twelve hapless lunchtime students donated their food to the pack standing a jagged, hungry, circle around the neat rows of folding chairs)

Where were we?

Our Founderette recognized the value of cultivating gratitude and it was fortunate for us she had the courage and the will*** to create the blog you are currently enjoying… well, if this is your first stop, do not despair, like a graffiti-tagged building one block from a museum or a hospital, keep in mind, the external is rarely the location of the precious.

We could relate the inspiring story¹ of the first days of this bloghop, but if you’re one of the few who’ve persisted this long, pushing through the dense rhetorical underbrush, we offer the sight of your goal:

1) Phyllis (the Alfred Hitchcock in the photo)

2) Una (the Dennis Hopper in the photo)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (’cause sine qua non, binyons, sine qua non!)

4) the Six Sentence Story a place learn, practice and enjoy the fine art of little, tiny stories that you can have any time… like M&Ms (yeah! zactly like M&Ms!)

5) ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’ Because, who doesn’t enjoy a good serial story… they’re like an open book exam, no pressure and if you lose track of a character or narrative arc, well! just click back a few chapters! It’s all good, yo.

6) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing. Hey stayed tuned! We’ll be asking for some audience/viewer participation soon.

1. ok…just the abridged version of the ‘Story of Lizzi and the Dragon‘… “…the weight of negative emotions grew almost daily. Though accustomed to the periodic silent, cold of the dark place, a point on the map all too familiar to people of her kind, (an Outsider, some might even say, a clark…however one of the first and few rules of a certain Doctrine holds that one person cannot assign a category to another, at least not if they hope to claim authority). The weight grew greater and the dark place darker, until the idea, (mentioned by another, found in the pages of book now lost), came to her: ‘Write a list of things for which  you are grateful. And write it…everyday.’ And she did. Everyday. Alone, (as this was in the beginning and there were not yet fans and Readers and people who would be drawn to her). It’s the writing the list alone, without the co-support of others of like mind. A demonstration of will. And courage in the face of an adversary that only a certain group have the awareness of.  The End.

7) 8). awww, come on! can you give a blogger a little ibid. here, yo?  You gots a history story. Besides, our hostinae, Dyanne totally approves… no, I don’t know that for a fact. I got to the sidewalk just as her car roared away from the curb, a dialogue balloon… “Cars, bitches… do a thing with cars!”

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10) SR 1.3 …because the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) waits for no one, it (the BoSR/SBoR) is the rhetorical expression of the famous quote (Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’) “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” You got a rule book with mad blank pages, use them wisely, grasshopperini

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*** and surely, all innovation and forward development in reality requires not one, but both these qualities

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