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). Since that fateful Saturday morning in 1983 when a nameless blogger by the name of Lizzi R decided to find 10 bloggers of a certain sensibility to join as Hostinae and Hostum of the soon to be world famous, the Ten Things of Thankful. The rest is as they say history ( “...historein “be witness or expert; give testimony, recount; find out, search, inquire,” are derivatives of histōr “knowing, expert; witness” (as in hyperhistor “knowing all too well“).

Insider Insight: the original format of this exercise in the recollection, appreciation and nurturing of the higher order process of being grateful? ‘Fifty Items of…’ you read that correctly, Fity! The Founderess practiced this for quite some time before deciding to ask the rest of us to join in on a more easier exercise. Can we get a ‘Whew!!’?

1) Phyllis

2) Una (that’s Una at the top of this post). Talk about an illustration of simple joy… in life, in herself, in the day. She was a total power of example. We so felt the gap between what we are capable of and what she so freely shared in her demonstration of, “Come on, human! It’s fluffy snow… run, run because it’s fun!”

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) a (Netflix series) ‘The Residence‘ totally entertaining and, as many us involved with the various bloghops, we enjoyed watching the writing as we did in being entertained by it.

6) Had rain this week, the water level of the Pond did not subside as radically as it had on a previous rain event. Perhaps the soil in not as dry, parched and welcome to an Altered Climate, binyons, as we thought.

7) for the record: the frozen water season (as depicted in our excellent photo of Una) is not our favorite

8) something, something

9) obligatory (if not begrudging*) photo of Autumn(ish) of the house and Phyllis’ cottage (walking back from the bridge)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* ’cause of the fact that it was not warm

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