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

The invitation is to share the people, places and things that have elicited, inspired and otherwise inspired one to experience the state of gratitude. Either as a fleeting state, say, when we slow down at a curve in the road for no particular reason and there turns out to be a radar trap waiting, or a long(er) state-of-mind; remembering how, on Saturday nights we’d would stop at the local McDonald’s on the way home and pick up a quarter-pounder, large fries, strawberry shake and a plain hamburger. After turning on the tv, we’d prepare put the 1/4 pounder and fries on a sandwich plate, along with the plain hamburger, sans bun, cut into quarters. We’d put the plate on the arm of the loveseat where Ola sat, right next to the couch facing the tv. With the food about six inches from Ola’s nose and teeth, we’d always act surprised at forgetting the strawberry shake in the kitchen, jump up and say, ‘Be right back’. Ola would look at us with that canine look of amused patience and wait. Once we returned, she’d accept her hamburger pieces as we ate together.

The memory brings a smile now, many years later.

This week our grat list includes:

1) Una

2) Phyllis  ‘The Cottage in the Woods Adventure Part 3.7’ (We’ll ask you, the Reader to imagine a vehicle with a full roof rack, a ladder on the back, a winch on the front bumper and a ‘snorkle’ on the exhaust system…. like that)

3) the Wakefield Docrtrine

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

5) Six Sentence Story (the blophop for people who enjoy writing but don’t have a garret (or a publisher or, for that matter, an agent. Mostly because an agent would most likely be, all, “Six Sentences…that’s it. You’re messing with me, right?”)

6) vidchats (because it’s more fun at those times in a thoughtful discussion when you want to interrupt the other person, i.e. waving arms, leaning forward in chair (towards camera on top of computer) lol

7) writing the story, ‘Almira’ (for, in the course of doing research, providing the opportunity to acquire a Cliff Notes level of awareness of the worker’s rights movement in the early 20th C.)

“I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be everywhere. Wherever you can look, wherever there’s a fight, so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the houses they build, I’ll be there, too.” (Tom Joad ‘Grapes of Wrath’ John Steinbeck film version)

8) Friend of the Doctrine Nick (hey! Nick! Thanks for the cover (“Well, sure, Mrs. Cleaver we were studying in the library the whole time.”)

9) something something 

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (Well, jeez, did you see that part about ‘Secret’?) (well, sure, but ya gotta ask, ya know?)

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