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. Founded by Lizzi in 1965 on a dare from a representative of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, who, the story goes, insisted that our Founder start a weblog embodying the principle of practicing the recognition and acknowledgement of those people, places and things in our lives that incite the emotion gratitude… as soon as the internet was up-and-running. The rest, as they say is natural history.

1) Una (Watching her morning surfing channel)

2) Phyllis (watching from Una’s left)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) Hypo-grat. Jeff Beck died this week. (The hypo-grat, when employed in a TToT list is pretty much graduate level listifying. To any new participants and/or Readers I totally defer to my co-hostina Mimi for a proper definition, use and application). That said, imo, when we have the will/faith/determination to deny the piling-on of the negative people, places and things, we have an opportunity to see that the good does not get destroyed by the bad. (Reminds me of an old comic.)

6) lack of frozen water falling from the skies. Each day without snow gets us closer to the time of year when it is not likely. (Well, guess we should say, ‘closer to the day when snow would be unusual… this particular threshold of standards is unfortunately moving farther and farther each day, “Hey, snow predicted for Cinco de Mayo.” “Huh, did they say how much?”)

7) Regular Readers are not surprised at our proclivity for lapsing into adolescent dreams/nightmares… but we have a new client with an old-fashioned view on technology and security, to wit, their required type of key lockbox. Which rings the iron bells of youth,

“Picture if you will, the corridor of a junior high school, the year is 1966 and it’s the second day of classes… some seventh graders are about to experience a Circle of Hell that Dante Alighieri left out of the Divine Comedy‘, if for no other reason than his imagination failed to identify a crime to justify the torment of: “…rotate the dial to the left past the first letter of your combination, then in the opposite direction, find the third letter and your locker is open.”

8) something, something

9) technology and such

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* Colonel Kurtz Heart of Darkness, Apocaplypse Now

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