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

(when snow would be a welcome cloak)

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Contrary to most reporting, the TToT was created by one person. Further, again in contradistinction to prevailing scholarship, the Founderess was little concerned with fame, fortune or following. More impressively, the original format was ‘fity things of thankful’. And yet. Lizzi R wrote. (Despite efforts to cast them in a more utilitarian mold, the first blogposts were wildly popular.) With bloggers of a certain sensibility, of course. We were fortunate, though cannot recall much of the path that lead to this ‘hop, and so will cite this intro as Grat 6

For the rest of the list of people, places and things that incite and otherwise elicit a psycho-social state of gratitude, we offer the following:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) keeping boxes of old magazines and newspapers or, to get into the 21st C, an archived Guest Post by Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia.

6) being invited to be one of the original ten Hosts of this here bloghop here, back in the Winter of 1923

7) the atavistic assurance of a contained fire with the efficiency of a cast-iron stove.

8) something, something

9) a bit of a hypo-grat. we had frozen water accumulate last night. Our resident authority on the topic, (including use and misuse of what are referred to as hypograts, Mimi, can better esplain why these traditional overlooked aspects of life are valid items for a TToT list. (In the ‘normal’ world of gratitude blogs, these are usually related to specialty lists such as ‘Broken Shoelaces & Why Me‘ or ‘I knew it!’ or perhaps the more high-brow sites: ‘He who fights with snowmen should see to it that he himself does not become a snowman Digest‘

Our qualifying view of this week’s hypogratuitous mention: ‘I needed the exercise and it’s impossible to break a sweat inside the house’, aka ‘When I was young, for reasons yet to be understood, I loved to shovel snow. Today I can become, for at least one arrhythmic hour, a young lad again.’ lol

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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