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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful(TToT) bloghop. Created in 1998, the premise is encourage bloggers to create a list of the people, places and things that elicit the state of gratitude, however briefly or otherwise transitory in nature. The quality of writing is exemplary in the talent and technique out there. And because whatever better way there is to appreciate the sublime than the rhetorical equivalent of the classic pie fight, our hostina, Dyanne graciously looks the other way each week when, like a paper boy on speed mistakes water balloons for newspapers (it could happen) and we speed by each week end to deliver our own TToT.

So, for us, here’s a quick ‘oT, seeing how it’s already Sunday out there!^{Grat #9}

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) hey, Mimi’s Six this week was ‘a Café Six‘ What with her writing a post ever day and whatnot, we relish the chance to read of her adventures as a Proprietor of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, ya know?

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

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Friday Night Walks

8) something, something

9) That Wakefield Doctrine up there, at Number Three? How good, how insightful a thing it is! How could you possibly know that much about a person?!! Well that tiny, little phrase “…it’s already Sunday out there.” Is an example. Lets do a quick reprint:   “…it’s already Sunday out there.” Armed with the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, those two italicized words would have you thinking, “Hmm, thinking we gots ourselfs a clark here… lets keep watching and listening.” And, it’s true. You will find, among the two thousand plus posts here, more than one description of the world, from the perspective of the personality type referred to as ‘the Outsider’ better known as a clark, and how they relate themselves to the world around them to wit: the individual is ‘here’ and the world is ‘out there’, as in, apart from.

yeah, the Doctrine lets you know way more about the other person than you have any right to know. And …and! you’ll become a better listener! lol

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)… don’t be shy ’bout askin!

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https://youtu.be/XXFc4zL-Awg

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