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

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Sometimes, on occasion, Readers demand an explanation of our weekly endeavor, “Hey! Doctrine, we’ve met you in person(s) and you strike us as being a touch on the hypo-emotive side, ya know? Whatcha doin contributing to what, in the common parlance, is known as a gratitude blog. Can you tell us that?”

The TToT’s origin story is fairly interesting. And, given how synchronicity in the virtual world is a common as ‘cloudy, chance of afternoon showers’ in the ‘real’ world, we were pleasantly-unsurprised to come across recently posted photos on the facebook from one of the original hostinae, Christine. Anyway. So, back in 1988 or ’89, Lizzi, the Foundress of the TToT, took to the notion of hosting a bloghop in her own, non-hopping blog, ‘Considerings‘. And, talk about ‘walking the walk’!! Anyway, to truncate the narrative, being the Wakefield Doctrine predominant worldview personality type she was, she decided that one co-host wasn’t really to her liking, so she picked ten bloggers to invite to join her.

Yep, she asked us. Worse, we accepted. ‘Sure! What harm can we do to the efforts of a bunch of well-intentioned, skilled writers from all over the werld?’  lol That was, something like forty-three years ago. Since then, each weekend, there have been TToT posts that share the people, places and things that touch the contributor’s lives and consciousness. And, of course, those from the Wakefield Doctrine.

This week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis (in photo above, Phyllis out-of-frame, to dog-left)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) non-winter (aka Summertime)

5) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’‘ and ‘Tales from the Six Sentence Café & Bistro‘

6) Men’s Singles Lawn Curling (before)

7) Six Sentence Story bloghop.

8) something, something

9) Solo Lawn Curling  (after)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules… if your bloghop doesn’t have one, you really need to reassess management priorities, you know what we’re sayin’?)

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