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

What rough draft, it’s time come round at last, slouches into the electronic light of the blogosphere. This is being written at 12:11 am Sunday, so lets all agree to smile and not make a fuss at my picking up random literary references like lint at a clothes dryer convention. (And, the slightly bizarre asides too, if you please.)

The simple thing is the explanation. This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. It is hosted each week by Josie Two Shoes and it is an opportunity to reflect on those aspects of our (collectively) individual lives, this past week or past decade and share with so inclined, ‘the people, places and things’ that have evoked a sense of gratitude in us. It is simple, though not necessarily easy. That being said, the benefits of identifying with others who focus on an element of life that, ironically can be in short supply during those times when most needed, can be quite beneficial.

Seeing how I’m way late this weekend, let’s go mostly video! (The math: a picture is worth a thousand words, a video, at 30 pictures a second, times 117 seconds (of the main video) …carry the 3… 3,510,000 words! Best get Evelyn Woods on the line!)

1)Phyllis (see vid1)

2) Una (see vid1)

3) The Guard(en)

4) Phyllis’s Bench (From the remains of the old bridge, a new and useful form.)

5) the earth moves, it’s a fundamental pleasure

6) Produce from Una’s garden, a certain look from the garden’s namesake

7) Graviteer Kristi is settling into a new home. And though I can accept that she and John did not chose their (new) home city entirely because it figures prominently in ‘Blogdominion‘… there is something cool about see a real person’s photos about a place that I have included in a work of fiction. (Doubly so, as Kristi was gracious in offering me insights into the culture and life of a character (in the story) who was a member of the Mormon Church.)

8) zoe and them, down at the Six Sentence Story bloghop

9) It’s all about family in ‘Home and Heart‘, even the antagonist is not immune to collective attraction of family.

10) SR 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules)