Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Can you see it?*
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. The must-read gratitude bloghop since 2002 (the Year of the Keyboard). You are cordially invited to read the reflections on life, reality and the conditions as expressed by a wide range of people inclined (and skilled in the art of writing) to share such insights. You, (whoever you might be), are welcome to participate by linking to any of the TToT hosts’ blogs, your own take on: “What?! Did things really turn out like that??!! Can I get a big Pheww!”
In other words, however you prefer to frame the question: ‘The people, places and things in my life that incite and inspire the state of gratitude are…’ please feel free to join us.
Make that a list of Ten Things, if you would, seeing how the name of the ‘hop is… But …but! Before you despair at the seemingly daunting task of coming up with a list of ten, know that we have a little thing that none of the other grat blogs have, the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules. Which, here at the Doctrine is so frequently consulted as to earn a constant #10 positing on out list. (btw, the editor threw out a sentence that contained a double asterix referencing a footnote concerning the concept of ‘hypo-grats’ as manifesting in these pages.
Our list this week:
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) serial stories the Whitechapel Interlude, the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro
5) practice writing (since the earliest of days, try to not embarrass myself would have been my pre-Wakefield Doctrine emotional front-facing state, however, given the crazy efficaciousness of said personality theory, it was (and remains) more a drive to be better equipped to express what I believe is beneficial to express. (If that fails to make sense, welcome scott! hidy roger!)
6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
7) Hypo-grat expert (and true aficionado) Mimi (’cause, some of us got the gift, others get to hang out with ’em)
8) something something
9) the hostina and co-hostinae of this here bloghop here, Dyanne, Lisa and Patricia
10) Secret Rule 1.3 (no fair checking down here after reading the Intro… back up to the top.)
* ok, but only one hint: Picture-window of Turin
** hypograt: an event, occurence or person that’s not the choice you’d have made, had you been given the choice/offered the opportunity to avoid… inclusion of hypograts are, frankly, an approach that sorta requires and advanced level of gratificency… aka way more evolved in the higher forms of relating oneself to the world around us than we, here at the Doctrine are ordinarily capable of… See Grat 7 above
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About clarkscottroger
I was home when the bird left his image on the window, odd that it is still there over a week later, definitely very Turin like.
Thank you.
It just takes practice looking for those silver linings, they’re almost always there.
the power of perspective, no?
Birds have adorned our windows in the same way. They have a funny sense of humor, but I prefer feather impressions to the other options. (Remembering carrying an umbrella when walking across campus where the grosbeaks hung out in the trees in the trees…)
Those hostas (?) are going to look pretty there.
funny (or not) we’re getting more bird-glass interaction since the clearing of the lot… suspect the line of sight for many birds is different not