This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Since 2001, the leading Gratitude-themed bloghop on and off the world wide web.
The people, places and things that have elicited and otherwise jump-started our internal reference on 'hey, the world doesn't totally suck, there's...'
6) Kerry stopped by at the FB TToT page this week. She was one of the first participants in the Friday Night Vid Chats that Lizzi and I started, way, way back.
7) Lisa also dropped by, commentationaly-speaking, always fun to see bloggers who welcomed us to the virtual world, back when things were new, writing was easy and spelling still mattered.
8) work photo at the top of the post is Norwich CT
(Follow-up Question): Are you enjoying this bloghop?
(Final Question... we promise): If you'd like to participate in this bloghop but are having trouble getting, you know, started? We will front you one totally valid, not-bad-among-the-other-nine Grat for inclusion in your inaugural TToT posting.
No tricks or strings or anything bad(ish). Just typee-type-type, publish and link.
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1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) technology cum work-required photation: the Grat about this photo of an attic in one of my properties? Glad you asked! We did a 'scary' Six this week, hoping to produce the appropriate emotional response, i.e. scary house. It was actually a number of years ago, when I a had a number of old, vacant houses to inspect every week, that the concept of scary old house came up. We are brought up as children to have a respect, if not fear haunted houses. Mostly because, in theory, they might be home to ghosts and/or other inimical beings. So I would have fun (on these inspections with a 'What if there's a spirit or monster in this property?' Alas, the innocence of childhood. The true horror to be encountered in a putative haunted house, for an adult (and, we include ourselfs, for the purpose of the narrative) is far worse than banshees and werewolves, it is so mundane. Approaching the stairs in the photo, hearing a sound and catching our toe on the insulation (white stuff)... that is the scary thing. To lie paralyzed at the bottom of the stairs in a vacant house, real horror.
This is a Grat on this week's list because:a) we enjoyed writing about childhood and2) We didn't trip on the insulation
5) putative first post by the Doctrine to this here bloghop here.June 7 1913
6) Return of a wandering hostinae, Readers surely took note ofKristi's return at the beginning of the week this week. Welcome Back. (New Readers: she is one of the original Hostinae chosen by Hallowed-be-The-Founderina's-Name...) back in, the records are... imprecise, lets call it 1967 just to err on the side of caution.
So, lets get right down to...(damn! gots my first music vid)
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine Long grat this week (see Grat #8)
4) gainful(ish) employment... well, technically, self-employment, i.e. real estate sales and marketing. It permits (and, kinda requires) certain activity ever week. Past lists have featured photos of the properties currently in inventory. This week will be no exception.
5) a lack of snow (no hubris in that statement... simple gratitude for weather conditions), that said, while seasonable cold, the ground is frozen, but visible. grat!
8) ok Reader Advisory: the fact that you don't have to be a clark to read, enjoy and otherwise participate Doctrine posts notwithstanding, here's a quick little Grat that is right on the edge of acceptable coherency in writing, you know what we mean, esai?* In any event, the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for self-improving oneself. Especially, if not 'only', for clarks. The reason is, it appears that a necessary precursor to growing and development involves the emotional aspect (of being a person). In clarks, there is a relatively high level of 'hands off that shit', at least when it comes to us dealing with...well, ourselves. Short story extended: had an encounter this weekend with an online friend that resulted in a better sense not only of ourselfs, but our capacity to interact with the world around us (and the people who makes it up). All due to time spent with this here personality theory here. For the non-predominant clarklike Readers: a reaction to something that in pre-Doctrine days could have been negative, became a positive(ish) lol process. Nothing remarkable, nothing that 'real' people don't encounter and develop in... like childhood days. But, speaking only for ourselves, clark here. lol Thanks! unidentified person in non-comprehensible interaction!
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3 (A clarklike twist to a very rogerian view of clubs, groups, gatherings and common effort, aka 'the Herd'. Unfortunately, the innate (and near-uncontrollable drive to subversion in clarks pretty much negates any of the natural attractiveness that our Herd Member (rogerian) brethren have in copious amount. oh well.)
1) thanks to Mimi for the remindering of putting the linkz at the bottom
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This is the Doctrine's weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Hey! Here's a thought... are you typing from a location other than Oceania (North America(ish)... that is)?Welll, have we an offer for you! Link your post. (n.b. well, given thisisthe Wakefield Doctrine, if you're not sure how to, then just ask in a comment). If you do, we promise to share one of the few jokes that everyone says should not be considered nearly as hilarious aswedo... (too much build-up? ....yeah. not a joke so much, more abon motyou know, 13-year-oldclever,)1
6) The current lack of snow. While winter cold, the starchy-white soiled sheet of January snow that makes winters so inherently inimical, the brown of frozen dirt is, some how, less bully-ing.
7) work (and documentary photo) check back later, aiigght?
8) Everyday oddities of the 'real' world. (weird? ok, daylight creepy...er. how aboutuncannyyeah lets go with that) Here we have a photo of a church in rural Rhode Island. Though on the small side, look at the photo and chase down the small,wth?nibbling at your sense of normal, natural world of churches:
9) something,something
10) Secret Rule 1.3
current hostinae (Mimi,Dyanne,Kristi,Lisa,Denise,Miskynot eligible to participate. As they would likely suffer a conflict of interest. ("He said what?!?! And represented it as humor?!?!! After the talk we had when he accepted the role of ... we should have know!")
