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

This is our weekly Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) post.

A virtual legacy (bequeathing, handed-down ritual, reasonable writing exercise …a rhetoric tontine perhaps?) whatever. Each week a post consisting of writing Ten Things (or people or places…. or memories) that elicit the psycho-emotive state of gratitude.

Just because, …you live long enough and the little things grow in value and stature, the giant things become more likely to fit on the shelf (as opposed to riding on the shoulders) and time becomes more useful as a wise advisor and less the stern taskmaster.

This week, we offer:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see below, in Grat #6. the Doctrine not only offers an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it us, it’s fun too!)

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

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) rogerian expressions… like bitcoins and buried treasures, rogerian expression are sometimes found as a result of hard, but tedious effort or simply stumbled up. The necessary tool in this case is an understanding of the Wakefield Doctrine. During the course of the previous week, we had reason to spend time on hold awaiting the arrival of a customer service rep with the electric company. A moment before the onset of ‘screw this, we’re hanging up the phone, the kindly-but-virtual woman said, “If you prefer not to continue on hold, the following menu is available. Please pay close attention as the menu has changed and there are several, new, self-serving option.” Go here to the page of rogers and, at the bottom of that page, a list of rogerian expressions.

7) decrease of Winter’s silent grip and open car sunroofs! (Even more suggestive of the end of Winter than leaving the overcoat at home. ‘course, there’s nothing wrong with multiple sweaters and wool sports coats and such

8)something, something

9) Book recommendation, An Alien Heat by Michael Moorcock. He is the writer I want to grow up to be.  (Further examples of what draw us to hum is in evidence in Moorcock’s The Dancers at the End of Time trilogy.)

10) Secret Rule 1.3.  Because, if it wasn’t a Secret, everyone would do it and, as any clark (or scott or roger with a sufficiently significant secondary clarklike aspect) will tell you, creativity is always personal and therefore comes into being via the secret highway.

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