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

Not the actual ’64 Belaire Wagon that was my first car, but this one illustrates the iconic ‘primer-red bleed-through’ that many Chevys of this vintage exhibited.

Ten Things of Thankful. Created by Lizzi. Hosted by Dyanne. Beautifully manifested and expressed by Mimi and Pat and Lisa.

Dragged behind a 1964 Chevy Belaire wagon, past ocean-beaches and urban residential danger-zones, driven by a blogger who, being willfully incapacitated both rhetorically, psychologically and, surely, spiritually, nevertheless refuses to turn over the keys to his keyboard to the few remaining friends he can claim in the blogosphere.

For this week’s list of the people, places and things, (including events, real and imagined), that elicit a sense/feeling of gratitude:

1) Phyllis

Too) Una

III) the Wakefield Doctrine

For) Short fiction and bite-sized story-ettes, the Six Sentence Story is always a sure bet. Too bad there wasn’t a universal read-text outloud app so we could listen to Six Sentence Stories as we drove along in our automobiles or were stranded in a line at the Minute Dry Cleaners. Any suggestions as to voice talent selection?

pfff-ive) The number of edits to the average TToT …five? The phonetic to the left of the parenthesis?

Sex) Made ya look! But, so as not to be totally-guilty of gratuitous Grat Item baiting, not that there’s anything approaching noticeable love scenes in either of the two on-going serials, there are emotional connections… in the Whitechapel Interlude, clearly there is something going on between Anselm and Sarah, but possibly, (at some point in future installments), also between Brother Abbott and the hunter demon inhabiting a portion of Sarah’s mind. As to ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ Diane Tierny, the hostess of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge is tending a secret orchid of affection for our protagonist who, for his part can’t seem to make a commitment to his friend and client, Leanne Thunberg. Given the slow healing to follow being divorced by his wife, Haley, Ian is a good example of how difficult it can be to distinguish a callous from a scar.

?!?!) See? (Not to worry, that should be the last of the ‘what the?!?!’… well, of the salacious variety, at any rate. To paraphrase Nietzsche, “Those who scorn the non-sensical have left their imagination locked in a childhood trunk.”)

Ate) A new summer and a new crop of thistles… in the side yard, aka the Lawn of the Triffids. (No, Una is not allowed anywhere near the side yard.) This year: New Paths!

June 12, 2021

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T*n) Secret Rule 1.3 Because the Book of Secret Rules, (aka the Secret Book of Rules), is surely a gift from whatever deities eventually become mythologized as the culture of the internet, (in general), and the blogosphere, (in particular), develop a history of sufficient length to allow us early denizens to make up stories about our first experiences here in the virtual world.

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