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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the quatro-monthly grat-blog, the Ten Things of Thankful. Created in 1987, (languishing on the desk of the Founderess, Lizzi R, for three score and half a decade, until technology caught up with her vision), it has become one of the leading gratitude blogs in the ‘sphere. People magazine once almost published an article that would have said, “That Lizzi R! Were she not C.S.Lewis’ putative step-niece, we’d surely be remiss in our dedication to promoting scholarship in the world of imaginary biographies were we not to say, “Huzzah!”

So to conform to the accepted liturgy, the following are the people, places and things we, at the Doctrine, are grateful for:

1)  Una: role-model and that rarities of rarities, a multi-alpha canine. (In a pack of three, she reserves the right to alternate her recognition of pack leader.)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine: two words: sine qua non

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop: hey, clearly you enjoy reading. (Hell, if you’re still reading, you gots yourself a serious jones with the reading thing. No, serially, you’re surrounded by words and stories most sublime and, yet you’re still here at the Doctrine reading. Like, I suspect, the person, who almost totally convinces themselves there’s a genuine Treasure map somewhere in the one of the cardboard milk cartons that line the only path out of this place and, feeling good that you’ve resolved to stop wasting time, your fingers still brush over their open tops grazing a manila folder, feeling the printer’s ink on an old Life Magazine… (Wait!  Was that from 1967 with Jefferson Airplane on the cover?  Full Disclosure: we did save that issue and it is in a box in the basement) shhh!

7) something, something

9) Wikipedia (well, duh! just did my semi-annual, not-really-random-number donation of forty-four dollars and forty-four sense*)

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (“… if you manage to get within two, or even three grats of completing a TToT…welll that’s something to be Thankful for!” ) (Please apply the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules responsibly and save it for Number 10)

2) Phyllis: stage left in the photo of Una above

4) the ‘job’ I have, the work I do and the resources I have access to

6) the internet. (which usually is cited in conjunction with the technology underlying the existence and maintenance of this here virtual world, here)

8) the virtual world: ’cause seeing how humanity as a group, (cough…cough Herd!) is doing with the ‘real’ world, we’re way grateful for the chance to visit this place.

* can’t very well claim to be Wakefield Doctrine written, if’n we don’t have an asteroid somewheres

music and vids

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we used a song by one of our way favorite rhythm ‘s gospel guys, Fred Hammond, on our Six Sentence Story this week. lets see if there’s an oldy we… got it! live plus Fred (watch for the horn section up in the back get all Motown when Fred’s not looking (at 00.20)

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