On the Passing of the Equinox and the End of Summer... Ten Things of Thankful

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

This is the Wakefield Doctrine's contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. 

In response to all the emails, posts, letters (written and imagined) we are happy to announce^{"ok one hint, then you're on your own: "Grat#2" and don't be pasting it in comments and such, we got standards here, ya know?"} that we're extending the Open Auditions window for positions on the Board of Hostinae. The qualifications for a seat on the Board are to be found among the Grat List here (and possibly on other's TToTs).

So if you find youself all kinds of "Hey! This might be good for me, you know? Certainly the other members of the household won't resent the sudden abundance of quiet time." So overcome that self-consciousness/good sense and ask around the neighborhood*

Following is the list of the people, places and things that inspired us to try and feel, like, grateful. 

1) the Board of Hostinae:

• Mimi
• Dyanne
• Kristi
• Lisa
• Denise
• Misky

2) well, for one, to be possessed of a certain affinity for writing (non-fiction, fiction, speculative fiction, memoir and just be willing to tap the admittedly adulterated (in all senses of that word) spring call Stream of Consciousness ('aka 'Tell me you did not hit 'Publish' aiyeee!!")

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) [HypoGrat] Got a new phone. Dealing with Improvements (lol) Our Resident Expert on All Things HypGratuitous (motto: there-there-you-do-remember-that-it's-not-entirely-about-you,don't-you?) Mimi will be happy to esplain.

5) Watching an LPGA tournament last Sunday and hearing one of the announcers use a delightful idiom, "That just throws the cat among the pigeons".

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Pick of the Week:  'Better Angels'  by Liz H-H

7) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.  Ear of the Week:

8) Open Houses (as a physical/professional location that both allows reflection (Hypo-Grat) while inspiring the narrative of a WIP story)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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How is a Thursday Night like a Saturday? A TToT Post for October XXIV

 (Before we forget. See bottom of the page for linkage)

ok first Grat!

1) thanks to Mimi for a reminder of doing the whole Link thingie to connect 

2) and the other hostinae for their support and consideration.

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story (sentence limit) blog hop.  Pick-of-the-Week.  'What fun?...'  by Chris

5) the Unicorn Challenge (photo prompt) blog hop. 'The Prayer'  by Nancy

6) the meadow

7) Misky! Has accepted our invitation to take a seat on the TToT Board of Hostinae! We (remember. regular Readers of the the Wakefield Doctrine blog) hope that she finds as much satisfaction (so, mums the word, yo... no, 'But Marilyn you have such talented and accomplished bloggers following and enjoying your ...still Life joint are you quite certain that you should be seen comporting with such... such 'people'?' lol  We're quite grateful that she has joined us in this grat-blog-that-Lizzi-conceived,

8) modern technology (this medium as example of the best of and the worst of the digital age)

9) Hypograt: Autumn. Cold weather in the near term, but, technically-speaking we are now at a point in the year where there remain only 57 more days until Summer!!

10) Secret Rule 1.3  (reminder all you New Readers, journey-person Doctarines/-a and chance visitor to this blog who, after reading with an increasing sense of disbelief and alarm, desperately clicking their mouse, like a movie-goer pounding on the brass bar of a fire exit...) Secret Rule 1.3 on one (the mundane level) simply means that in the process of creating a list of 10 things, as number 7 or 8 are penned and the realization that success is imminent, the resultant gratitude is a totally legitimate Item. Convention and good manner dictate that the last item (#10) be used for this celebration of food fortune.3) Hey! Speaking of hosts of this bloghop we are happy to announce a new host has joined the Board of Hostinae. Misky 

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Ten Things of Thankful 1010 i.e. a video is surely a multiple of words

 Ten Things of Thankful for the 89th of October, 2924. AD

Hey, it's been a while for us doing a video post. So, let's get to the list. 

First things first, lets go all allograftic on our Grats (donor: the Wakefield Doctrine, recipient; aww you making us blush)

For this week we are grateful for:

1) Having the ipso facto patience and support of the Board of Hostinae

2) the concept of hypograt in a gratitude bloghop

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. pick of the Week: 'The Burning Tower'   by Cynthia Calhoun

5) the Unicorn Challenge. pick of the Week: 'A Chance Encounter'   by Sally

6) [Hypograt] Struggling with linkz after remembering (at about 1:13 am)  that we'd forgotten to post TToT link. Subsequent Grat (see #7)

7) Realized the membership we thought we had, had reverted to a free (aka kinda useless) account. Once restored, got Link out to all the members of the Board of Hostinae

8) computers and online (and solitaire) to pass the time when sleep was...elusive

9) Somebody say, "Roll the Movie?!?!" Coming right up

10)  Secret Rule 1.3

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Hey! Remind me next week! (As Mimi did just a minute ago) to post the link thing

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"ruh-roe if you read the first edition of the Doctrine's TToT post... don't throw it out! (that bad-boy's gonna go all upside biplane in the marketplace)

 Ten Things of Regretful Thankful Saturday-the-almost-13th Edition!

Don't tell anyone* but we got the linkz link wrong for this week. 

Mistakes were made. We've accepted everyone's thoughts and prayers and are ready for a fresh start!

This is the Blogger Edition**

So, lest we wake the Spirit of Lizzi Past, lets get right down to a list everyone here can easily understand¹

1) the Wakefield Doctrine

2) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  Six Pick of the week:  ...[a Café Six]  (the) the Wakefield Doctrine

3) the Unicorn Challenge   Read this one!

4) the internet (without which, surely something like a bloghop would, at the very least, take a lot longer.... ("Honey? Mimi has written a Comment, should I tell the typesetter to get out his bag of lead slugs so you try the She-typeset-He-typeset?)

5) Speaking of Mimi, we totally want to include the entire Board of Hostinae in our TToT this week. This for reasons that will be assigned a number (Hey, gratitude blog writing-istically speaking, we were born at night but we weren't born last night.)

6) the Board: Mimi, Denise, Dyanne, Lisa and Kristi

7) This week in particular, we are grateful for their patience and such. A little trouble with the linking code. That, notwithstanding, we will repeat our Special Offer: So you want to Host a Bloghop? You totally can! Just fill out the Questionnaire and send it in! Think of the difference it will make at your next party!

8) So, you're at a party. It's getting on into the evening, (Try to remember back to a time in your life before 'Look at the Time' was a social anchor, as opposed to, "Hey Baby/Man, the night is young.^{Grat 9}

9) as opposed to the person writing and/or reading this entry

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* we're referring to the Board of Hostinae., of course

** as in, 'anything!?!? you're sure now... this is a person, who when Sunday Night'd for a assignment to: Write a Review of a Movie (in Creative Lit class) made up the movie, then wrote a Review (oh,, the humanity

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Please Bear with us (??!@# Bears?!?!?!... ) no, ha ha, no bears. Just adjusting to a bi-format TToT

This is the Wakefield Doctrine's contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

(You'll find a blogger version of this week's TToT over at the Group in the Facebook and, of course on blogger.com.)

Wait, disregard that previous sentence. We are here, in fact, on behalf of the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. (May Lizzi be Praised).

Suspect we need to get all bifurcated on our weekly submissions, at least in terms of author specific Grats

(ed. Maybe next week?)

1) Phyllis ---↓ (not Phyllis...rather your photophobic (and some might add, Unreliable) Narrator*

2) Una --------------------------------------↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine.  * Yeah, lets run with this asterix: there are at present Five (5) Co-hostinae We will, for purposes that will become obvious as we type (god-willing), be supplanting of Items on this list as we lurch towards Redemption and the Publish button.** 

4) the end of Summer¹

5) the comprehensiveness and implicit sophistication of a Grat Bloghop including the concept of HypoGratuity (see Grat 6 below for reference and/or further explication)

6) our resident expert Mimi will be happy to explain, in a manner that, while possibly less of the smart-alec, juvenile approach, i.e. when you get a flat tire but the person who stops without prompting is really: nice/hot/cool/did-we-mention-hot?, than we we are capable of... maintaining, seeing as she does an appreciation of the larger, less self-centered view of life and such

7) the Unicorn Challenge.  the 'corn Pick of the Week. ** Not for nothin' but we are, in fact, painfully aware of the limits of the Writing Style (intoned with a total lack of sarcasm) oft referred to as Stream-of-Consciousness (SOC) We do request any suggestions, advice, admonitions and 'wth??!' be shared with all Hostettes (Grat 8)

8) the Six Sentence Story. 'Hey! Ya gotta read this 'un  Co-hosts: Kristi, Dyanne, Lisa, Denise and Mimi

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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(Think: Rick's Café Americain with a chalkboard Menu...instead of Nazis... hackers) Hey! Leave us blogs alone

 Something a little different this week.

oh, wait!

Welcome to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop!

so, yeah, I guess that makes our founder, Lizzi R. , Rick Blaine.

(I got dibs on Sam!)

Anyway, the thing this week is we heard over at the FB from a TToT alum, Patti Thomas. She told us that, her blog having been hacked, she doesn't come round all that much. Adding that she does miss the old days here at the TToT.

Hearing this, it was only natural that we thought the following two things: 

1. we were grateful to hear from someone from the early days
2. we had a mashup of Pink Floyd lyrics barge into our head*
3. knowing the Board of Hostinae are watching, thought to ourselfs: lets make some lemonade!

First things following is our List of Grats for the last week of September:

1) My co-hostinae: Mimi, Lisa, Kristi. Dyanne and Denise²

2) ² the aforementioned Board of Hostinae

3) the Facebook Group of the TToT

4) Paul D Brads for keeping the doors open (on the FB) of the Bloppy Bloggers

5) and speaking of the Bloggers of Blastonia (on the FB) we encountered an alumnae of this blog: See Grat #6**

6) Patti Thomas  (we trust she won't mind the link back to her FB page.)

7) So, given we have two Grats open. We'd like to offer them to Miz Thomas, if'n she is moved to offer some Grats. (kinda like doing a whole standalone TToT post, but different.

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9)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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** hey, when it comes to working the system, grat blog writing-istically speaking... well, this isn't our first human-farm animal wrestling match, ya know?

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Pre-Retruitment Post. Open Auditions for Co-host Positions (Must have healthy Spelcheck)

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

This is the Doctrine's contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Now entering it's twenty-third year of contiguous publication, the TToT seeks new Hosts and Hostinae.

You read that right! (correctly? accurately? consistently? nah, that can't be right) There are soon to be Openings on the Bored... Board of Facilitators. A little backstory...

Our Founderette, Lizzi Ah, decided, for reasons not understood, to have Ten Co-hosts of the bloghop. (Perhaps she felt, being global in reach, ten would be an effective number of people. We mean, serially, all the way  from... but that's not important now. There were ten of us in the beginning.)

So, we're opening up the TToT  phone/telegraph/electron-sluice lines up and asking for suggestions and/or recommendations/nominations/explanations for people to become Co-Hostina/ae of this here bloghop here.

...more to come

For the Doctrine, our list:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the history, (including, but not limited to, false, implanted memories), of our tenure as the Co-Host (recorded in internet archives category: Gratitude Blogs as the Term that defied Reason.)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  pick of the Week:  'Getting Restless'. by Chris Hall

6) the Unicorn Challenge. 'corn ear of the bunch:  'Black and White Thinking'  by Sally

7) [hypograt]  the probable end of Summer. while benign in outward appearance, Autumn is surely the 'Put your Pencils down' of the year's weather.

8) the whole concept of 'hypograts (we mean, seriously, can you even wonder why every grat blog doesn't include the concept, (and therefore basis of legitimate Grat Items) of Hypo-gratuity? Must be that their hosts are, like pretty much rogers or timid clarks. (Advanced(ish) musing. If you are still wondering, go ahead and ask in the Comments below.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3