Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A tribute to the soundness of the Creatorini’s strength of vision (and) the enduring Will of it’s participants, the TToT continues to this day, like…(insert metaphor employing either chain saws or anvils juxtaposed with human infants or the Eiffel Tower HERE)
For the Doctrine, we cite the following people, places, things (and) events as stimulating our sense of gratitude.
1) Phyllis
Una and (most of) Phyllis on our first, away-from-home family vacation
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) serial fiction, writing of, this one inparticular: “”…of Heroes and the MisUnderstood”
5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop… Doctrine’s ‘Hey This One is Fun’: ‘Six clumsy sentences!‘ Keith has that much envied gift, (yeah, skill too), of creating enduring, if not fictional, realities. Case in point this: an invitation to stop by the Baamy Inn,
6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop… our Pick of the Week: ‘After the End‘ by jenne
7) Hypo Grat*: the quick brown fox… once again quicker than the old grey blogger! (the photo? the yellow dots? a fox, not a apocryphal Road Runner™ ran along the path at 7:04 as it does every weekend. We must’ve had, what, ten seconds? The fox was loping, not sprinting. Of course, in the World of the Young (WYmotto: ‘Sure, but you coulda done a movie, edited it and posted in that kinda time. Unless your walnut-like finger joints slowed… gotta go…. no problem‘. ) it would not have been a prob.
8) finding a workaround to having to buy a new camera. This is big. A lot of the work we do requires photos be date/time-stamped. Always had to buy a camera to get them as, at least up until this week, our phone required a 3rd party app, and to use it required 18 steps of edit. This new one now is one step. cool
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3 (From the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules) ‘…using superscript always elevates the appearance, if not, how content is perceived view by the Reader. [P] rovided the Reader is at least fity-years-of-age’ (BoSR/SBoR 2011 op. cit)
* hypo-grat one of the reasons this here bloghop here is still in ‘print’. A hypo-grat is the person, place or thing that is, on the surface, not a good person, place or thing, at least on first blush1 One of the long(er) term benefits of participation is acquiring the capacity, however rudimentary, to find ‘the positive in the negative’. (Mimi is our go-to for reference in this admittedly advanced gratitacious whatthhellia temporus2)
1) one of our all time favorite old-fashiony expressions, apparently it dates back to the 1300s! (surely if there is a place where time-travelers hang out, those native to the 1300s must have some serious cred “Hey. Hey, man. When’re you from?” “13th C” ‘Dude!“)
2) hey, don’t laugh, that’s some straight-up fakey-Latin. But, serially, M is one of our Grat Misstrae Supreme in this aspect of the field.
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The hypograt is pretty awesome. I love the TM included with Road Runner. Chuckle. And of course all the usual grat items. Where did you go for the away-from home vacation? How did Una do? My apologies if you wrote about this and I didn’t see it, but…if not, you really need a post from Una’s worldview and point of view! Yes, the vacation from Una’s perspective. So fun. :)
This was (the year is a blank*) however probably early teens and the event was Lizzi coming to America. It was a grand confluence of virtual people, lemme look it up
lol (don’t tell anyone but… being a clark and not entirely being fixated on calendars and their rather regimentation on fixed time units (days and months and years),I do have a certain affinity for maps and so, rather than lookup in my calendar where the pet-friendly B&B in Ocean City New Jersey I went to google maps… street view and drove up and down the streets looking for where we stayed.
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*being a clark
I can think of one thing I’m thankful for, your generous number 5. As for another nine, let me think….
totally welcome
That was a fun vacation, thank you.
“Good morning”. While technically not morning is irrelevant.
To reiterate appreciation and therefore insert a thankful within your own TToT, I appreciate the links you provide for this week’s Picks of the Week.
Now, to that camera. Do tell! Sounds like my kind of camera as I have not once done any editing, p’shopping evva! (if I don’t have to, would I anyway…)
Hey! I did not laugh…
Indeed. M is.
Love #7, and the yellow dots!
Glad you were able to find a workaround. It’s always nice to find that something that used to take many steps can be accomplished in fewer.
yes very much so
Always a joy to read your thankful things. Isn’t it funny how calendars mean so little, yet so much.
yes ma’am
Thanks for number 6, Clark. You’re very kind.
my pleasure