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

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This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Founded by L. in 1837, the TToT languished in the pre-industrial era of early-pulp, serial Dickens and a highly developed tradition of crying (in the middle of) Town.

Even then, the appetite for positive news and information was in evidence. Some citizens, in their desire to be the first to become aware of announcements and proclamations first, gathered in coffee houses and told sob stories (not of professional enough quality to be cried, but well-intentioned and full of spirit, if not technique) to one and other. This phenomenom was observed in places across the continent, the most notable being the Bavarian rathskellers where crying-in-one’s-beer became a renowned art form.

With the invention of the internet, followed soon by the first keyboards, like opera to shower-stall vocalists, the web became home to a new renaissance in writing, rhetoric and the heightened appreciation of ‘the Craft’.

The Wakefield Doctrine’s list of Ten Things of Thankful:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) yard projects chopping up fallen trees and moving them out of mind.

5) Hypograts: one of the concepts found in the TToT and few other gratitude bloghops is that of hypograts. It is, in a sense, the next level of the practice of Existence Appreciation and self-improving oneself. The TToT’s grat maven, Mimi is likely to say, ‘You’d be surprised at how closed beneath the surface of a disappointment or setback is a rich vein of gratitudinousness.’ (quote attributed, without permission of the would be speaker of… the sentence… if Mimi were asked…which she was not… but being a major holiday weekend, might not read… in which case: “Yeah, that was Mimi!” … lol)

6) The Zombie Christmas project: Episode Tree

7) work

8) something, something

9) decreasing likelihood of snow in the immediate forcast

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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