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. Established in 1975 as a mimeographic-newsletter, this bloghop is the simplest form of spiritualism available without a purple-heart from a parochial education or a graduate degree in coed college dorm with a focus on blacklight reflection and macramé deconstructionism.

Following is the list of grats we would offer, available for identification purposes and general R&R.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) hypo-grats. (In two-parts) Hypo-grats are a valid experience qualifying for inclusion in one’s TToT list. It is, imo, a perspective that helps our little ‘hop stand out in an addmittedly crowded, (if not somewhat… ‘we-get-it-you’ve-memorized-your-multiplication-tables-but-math-is-not-rote sorta way), field of Gratitude Bloghops. Be that as it may, a hypograt is a person, place, thing or event that would, on first blush, appear to be a bad thing, something you’d just as soon forget and move on from. But, and here we would defer to a certain hostinae an opportunity presents itself. To us all.

7) (hypo-grats cont’d) Example:

We decided to sign up for free seminar at a local liberry: ‘Self-Publishing and Making a Career Writing Fiction’. First session was Tuesday past. Unsurprisingly, the moderator did the ‘Lets go around the table and introduce ourselves’ thing. Small group, the Librarian and three young women. We spoke last, (yeah, shocker that). The preceding three writers-to-be: opened with the anticipated: “I’ve been writing since I was 6yo/ even as a little girl I wrote stories/I can barely remember…”

When it got around to us we said, “I’ve been writing since 2009. For some reason, at that time, I found myself with a blog about a personality theory with three types, it’s called the Wakefield Doctrine. As part of trying to share it with as many people as possible I got involved with various online platforms like the Facebook and such. Almost immediately the thought came to me, “Shit! These people around me, they really write good. So I began to write as much as a I could.”

8) forbidden and surely toxic scents, smells and odors:

• mimeograph ink
• airplane glue (way before many Reader’s time it was available in the model car section of the drugstore (ikr?)
• diesel fumes (the ‘hello, welcome back! no, you’re not too old’ when walking the docks lined with commercial fishing boats)
• magic marker smells (still legal, right? toll of surviving diminished olfactory sense)
• one’s own socks (for a certain length of time) (come on, we won’t call you out in the Comments)
• rotting fish …and last and most challenging!
• the smell of wet hair, under a towel after coming out of the water at the beach on a hot August afternoon

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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