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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Founded by Lizzi in 1909, hosted, pro tempore, by Dyanne (Class of 1984 Head Cheerleader ‘Go… Fighting Marmosets!!!)

The object of this weekly exercise is to cite/write a list of Ten, (plus or minus), instances in which people, places or things have inspired or otherwise caused a state of gratitude in the author.

This week, we submit:

1) Phyllis

2) Una (she’s in the doorway there, somewhere.)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine: both as a tool for enhancing how we relate ourselves to the world around us and a thoroughly entertaining perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up.

4) Serial story-writing for fun and learnage, e.g. ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop, each and every Thursday

6) New addition to the property (above between Grat(s) 1 & 2): Phyllis’ library/office

7) A renewed sense of how one should never underestimate the proliferation and/or life expectancy of photos posted on the internet. Exhibit 1 below. Note the date

8) Living near the ocean, as evidenced in the photo at the top of this post. (Full Disclosure: this was in early November and the temperatures were more moderate than today. That said, there is no such thing as a bad day at the ocean’s edge.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) ‘the approaching successful conclusion of (a) TToT list is, in and of itself, something to feel grateful for… go ahead and make that Number 10′

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