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

As I’m sure you’re all aware, the torch/baton/standard has been passed along, once again. Josie Two Shoes has found herself a ‘maîtrise d’ouvrage’/majordomo/Curatoress/’Expéditeur de Lien’ who, being possessed of the qualities that reflect the tradition of this here bloghop here, has agreed to …(all the cinnamons and semi-latinized french words) already cited.

Seriously though, we all are, technically, entitled to submit a Ten Things of Thankful post this week with three items*: Lizzi, Josie and Kristi.

But, since this is the Wakefield Doctrine (and a refuge from the normal and predictable), we’ll simply post the following (block quoted) reprint post:

(From Josie’s Inaugural Post)

There’s an old saying, ‘a good thing that is shared, will never be lost’. This would very much be the case with the TToT. Originally created by Lizzi Lewis and shepherded through the early years, Our Miz Lewis did what all successful people do, she shared a passion.

Josie has taken up the (there should be some humorous analogy here, but I can’t think of one). Bottom line, she has taken the helm and the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop continues. The ‘rules’ are simple: share ten things that/for which you are grateful for, from the week immediately behind us or any time.

1) Lizzi for creating this thing

2) Josie for continuing this thing

3) the internet for providing the place for this thing

4) my work for allowing me the resources to afford the technology to access this thing

5) Phyllis for creating an environment in which I have become increasingly aware of the parts of my life that I can reference in this thing

6) the reasonable good-sense (almost) to know when a semi-clever rhetorical thing has run it’s course, (fans of horses will applaud this description)

7) Una for being a constant power of example

8) I’m grateful for having come to know Almira Ristani Gulch, the co-central character in ‘Almira’

9) I’m tempted to say, I’m grateful for having gotten this far in a list, which by virtue of being the first in the new order (of Ten Things of Thankful) without getting too weird

10) I glad that I didn’t

2) Transitions, such as that occurring this week, can be experienced as triumph as well as anticipation, excitement as much as gratitude. The people who have taken on the not-in-considerable task of organizing and making a bloghop available, welcoming and easy-to-use, have earned not a mere, ‘Why thank you. We have been fortunate.’ Rather we hope, in this post to convey a certain element of (emotional) response that includes: “yeah!” “alright!!” and ‘that-classic-high-pitched-whistle-usually-involving-two-fingers-to-the-edge-of-the-mouth-executed-by-the-nearest-scott‘ (We’ll leave you to go youtube it up….)

3) Una and her Garden (photo to follow)

4) Phyllis and her Una (photo to follow)

5) Kristi for offering her time and energy to the daunting task of hosting the TToT

6) May (over at the Gravity Challenge) … just because.

7) the Six Sentence Story for continually providing a place for me to write what I now take great solace in referring to as ‘flash fiction’. (As opposed to, ‘well, clark, thats a fascinating idea you have, with a little more time and effort, it could be a reasonable first effort at learning to write  a short story.‘) (lol)

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (you know, if you’re still a little a’scairt of submitting a full TToT, in no small part attributable to what you’re having trouble believing you’re seeing on this particular post).

9) Sunday Supplement

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* that would be: the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) 3.42 (which states, in part), “… when a change in the host(ess/inae) occurs, then the photo used to lead off the post may portray the spirit of the referenced people, whether past, present or future…”

While I used Bob Dylan for subtitle purposes, I will make a substitute for the version of the Dylan song, simply because this is one of those ‘cover-better-than original’

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