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. Constructed out of a desire that afflicts, not to say, characterizes, many of us who walk the pencil-sketch world of blogs and such, this is one corner of the virtual world that can claim liberty through self-responsibility.

(To paraphrase one of our favorite movies): “That is, in fact, a bold statement.”

That said, we might add, (to quote another, less famous source), ‘But, it’s true.”)

Do yourself a favor. After reading the other TToT posts, dispel the thought: “But these writers are concise and sincere, heck, some of them approach eloquence in their sharing of people, places and things that inspire the state of gratitude. No way I can write like that.”

True. But, before you put away the keyboard (or phone, if’n you’re not, like old or something), read this post, this Wakefield Doctrine TToT.

ikr? You’re now thinking, “Holy shit! If they let that pass and get linked, I can totally fly under the radar and maybe even get feedback from one of the good Writers.”

So, have at it!

For the Wakefield Doctrine, our list of the people, places and things that inspired, incited and otherwise tricked us into harboring the higher-level emotion of gratitude is as follows:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) photo at the top of this post? think of those old Saturday morning cartoons… the one that involved dynamite, (like they didn’t all), and the fuse gets lit? The photo, (at the top), is the first step in a semi-successful tree removal. Hoky Smoke! that’s a prompt for a Secret Rule 1.3 Grat!! Meet us at Grat #8

5) …so the tree did what trees in forests do, (don’t tell anyone, but this one did, in fact, make a sound), and fell where planned. What wasn’t planned was walking on a bee’s nest when clearing the wreckage. As hypo-grats go, it wasn’t bad. We realized that we’d gone pretty much through a lifetime without getting stung by a bee(s)!  For a clearer explanation of hypo-grats, our resident expert is Mimi, ask her. She esplains it better.

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Speaking of rogerian tertiary aspects, If you find this bloghop enjoyable (well, lets throw out the lowest and… get all chi square on this thing) why not tell your friends and fellow bloggers and bloggerinae? We’d love to have them join us.

8) How is this gratitude bloghop (the TToT) different and, frankly better’n all the countless others?  In our Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) we have what’s referred to as a hypo-grat! And a hypo-grat allows citing (and counting towards the ideal total of 10) things like Grat #5 (go on, go back and re-read it, we’ll wait.)

9) something, something  

Wait! Gotta add: Grat 9.3  music and musical creativity… All three music vids are cover versions of an original song: Alice Cooper, The Temptations* and Rage Against the Machine. respectively. But, damn! To hear a genuinely good song and then ‘hear’ something the same but different. We mean, serially, who’d a thought RATM with horns! (Gotta link out to Nick, he being the Six Sentence Café and Bistro’s GateKeeper and ‘Man on the Board’. )

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*recorded by them, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong

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