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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is a grat-blog with a difference. The difference is best exemplified by one of rules in the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) that appeared within the first year of the creation of the ‘hop, by Lizzi, back in 1893. Ostensibly an open license to participants to place ‘fast and loose’ with the rules, such as they were, the Book of Secret Rules (BoSR/SBoR) included the idea of ‘hypograt’ items being legitimate to creating a list. Of Grats. Ten of them. As in Ten Things of…?

Originally focused on the broken-shoelace paradigm, (frequent feature of self-help and/or improvement efforts), however, when employed by certain, more advanced participants, (yes, we’re looking at you Mimi and Kristi), the creative utility and value, (to both author and Reader), of hypograts in a TToT list blossomed.

This week, the people, places and things that incite and inspire the state of grataciousness, is:

1) Una (backstory: while she now relishes monitoring all activities of the denizens of her enhanced domain, her all-time favorite activity is running in photo-blurring arcs around the yard. The better to remind us that it is more one’s commitment to an activity than it is youthful energy or flexible limbs.)

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

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

5) bloghops for the above serial stories, mostly the Six Sentence Story

6) stumps in the ground

7) Una’s new domain photo at top of post and this one (in which a path reestablished by Phyllis)

8) Approaching completion… bonus video!!

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 the near completion of which, like starting to wash the dishes without be directly asked or falling asleep on the couch while (supposedly) waiting up. If something surely belongs at Number 10!

Music vids

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