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

The Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) is a bloghop that first appeared on the internet during a snowy March in 1989. Many were surprised, (and entranced), by its simple format and attractive premise.

Participants were, (and continue to be), invited to share a list of ten people, places and things in their lives, (both real and imagined), that have elicited the psycho-emotional state of gratitude. And, so, here we are fifty, (or ten), years later reading about how life, at least on the personal level, bears little resemblance, in tenor or tone, to those reports shouted at us from the tv or radio or media or whatever fingerprint factory we might be exposed to. There is no shortage of sources of information that would promulgate the attitude that the bad is winning and the good is in hiding.

For us, here at the Wakefield Doctrine, we were grateful this week for:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial story writing/fictional world creation i.e. the Whitechapel Interlude, the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and, of course, that asylum with an open guest list and no minimum, ‘the Six Sentence Café and Bistro

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop, chief enabler and bad influence

6) Friends of the Doctrine

7) non-Winter-like weather

8) something, something

9) the Café and the process of writing for it (aka discovering a totally non-intuitive path to adding accents to words, an increasing necessity what with the SSC&B spreading like spilled milk on a formica-top kitchen table)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which insists that, contrary to the opinions of certain Sisters of Mercy in the 1960s: “…the thought is not the same as the act, but it, (the thought), can be as real as the world in which both occur.” (BoSR/SBoR Chapter 29 ver 2-4) ibid, op.cit, ten-four, over-and-out.

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