Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
It’s Friday, and time to play spin the bottle with our innermost thoughts and feelings and attitudes towards life and such. Rumpus room in a finished basement with one too many hormone enriched adolescents giving off waves of desire and fear pheromones? Hell no! we’re mature, accomplished and secretly-under-satisfied adults, playing with language and telling each other stories about our lives, both real and dreamed. Not that this is a bad thing. No, No it’s not! It’s a good, self-empowering form of expressing ourselves, sharing life, uplifting the spirit and other positive enhancing things.
…and then there is Finish The Sentence Friday. They might as well say, ‘hey! we lost all the cool ink blot cards, so tell you what, here’s a phrase. we need you to tell us the first thing that comes into your mind. And, with any luck, 60 or 70 people can look in and see if they agree that it looks like ‘2 mother squids wrestling in a pool of blood’, or …’a pretty butterfly’. Good luck.
So keeping with tradition and all, we must be at Janine’s parent’s house and Kate has just gone ahead and taken the bottle from the built in bar for use in our little game. Stephanie she has that look again and her friends know that something unexpected will happen somewhere just as things seem to be winding down and Kristi…. lol Kristi you know she’s here somewhere, she has her own car (at least she say’s it’s her own car)… she seems to have disappeared when those older kids showed up…
The Best Part of my Day is…
Easy ‘Finish’: …early mornings because it is not only the quietest time of the day, but it is the time of day when hope and optimism has the most credibility. The time to make plans for the coming day, the night preceding having the effect of erasing the disappointment and under-acheivement and lowered expectations of the previous days. Mornings are the Time for Goals and Good Attitude
Less Easy ‘Finish’: … the incredibly fleeting moment when a difficult task is completed and those around me feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. For that moment I stand among them and forget the past (triumphs and failures) and the future (fear and expectations) and feel like I belong.
Wakefield Doctrine Quick Insight #4
If the day had to be divided up according to which of the three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) were most ‘at their best’ it would be as follows:
Early Morning- until shortly after Lunch: clarks
Late Morning- until Mid Afternoon (short interlude and then) Mid Evening until Whenever: scotts
Early Afternoon until Late Evening: rogers
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I must read more of your site as I am always quite lost when I just randomly pop on. Or maybe I am just lost.
mike
I guarantee that if you make it through one more ‘straight Doctrine’ Post and still feel like coming back from time to time, then you will ‘get it’*
Here’s a thought: give us a call this afternoon! 3:30 EDT I’ll be there, Cyndi (pictimillitude) will be there, Denise (girlie-on-the-edge), possibly roger (the secessionist rag) and any number of other people…very casual discussion but the main thing is in realtime the process of seeing what we mean is speeded way the hell up
* you no doubt do ‘get it’ it’s just that the parts (of the Doctrine) never seem to fit quite right…sort of when you put together the new barbecue grill or lawn mower and you layout the plans and then match the fastener’s to the profiles on the plans and there’s this one (or two) parts that seem to almost fit but clearly are not right…
Totally love how you divided the day up, by Clarks, Scotts and Rogers and no surprise where you fall in this my friend. Thanks as always for linking up and seriously now I know why I said what I said on my blog today, too!! :)
Ya know, I was gonna say early-morning to around lunch. HAHA. See, I get moving slowly. But I usually wake up around 5:30. It’s so I can spend some time goal writing, meditating and…watching IQ-dropping Spanish novelas. Okay, not really: they don’t really drop my IQ – I watch them for Spanish practice. I do that early in the morning because of the way our internet works. We get “bonus” time from 2-8 am, so I take advantage, lol. As far as actual WORK goes, yeah, I do well from about 10-2. Evening? I get work done, but…eh…not my best then. :)
I’m beginning to think that I am the quintessential clark, with like 19% clark and barely 1% roger. Yeah. ;)
Major clarklike predominance..significant secondary scottian aspect. fer reals. The tertiary? Yeah litgle baby one
Yeah, well, I mean 20% scott and 1% roger. Maybe I’m just a clark through and through since I can’t even say “scott” hahahah
Cyndi
then you’re so not gonna like the ….’where is my rogerian aspect and why don’t you like me now!!’ experiment lol
Previous comment senf from my hard to read phone. Lol
You totally belong. And this post is way more pretty butterfly than two squids wrestling. I’d even say that you can count it as an accomplishment. I’m a little worried though…please tell me that I’m kicked out of Clarkville if I admit to early mornings not being my favorite time of day. I think I’d like them more if I went to sleep earlier. But I’m always always always dragging ass in the morning.
Kristi
nope, sorry ain’t no last train from clarksville…. hold the thought about mornings until Tucker is in High School (you know what’s coming in the following comment for a visual…) and see then what you think about mornings.
well, gender is a little flipped, but still funny
HAAHA guess what? The word “NOT” was either unintentionally (my thoughts) or intentionally (fuck you Freud) left out of the sentence above. What I typed IN MY MIND was “…please tell me that I’m NOT – as in NOT – kicked out of Clarkville if I admit to…”
Which I think means that I’m cool with being Clarkish. :D
Love the Wakefield analysis applied to different favorite times of day, and what they signify! I also loved the “secretly-under-satisfied adult” comment! Ding ding ding! And mornings are not my favorite time of day. They kind of suck in my world. :)
Stephanie
you guys do have one cool bloghop! always a challenge and always satisfying
Late nighters are Rogerian? Goodbye!
lol and scotts… (and if you factor in early enough/non-consistent sleep) clarks!
Haha! Love the spin the bottle thing – very funny! I like the mornings too. I totally agree with it being the time for hope and optimism. Is not until lunch time that I realize that all my grand plans aren’t going to come to fruition because suddenly the couch is a very comfortable place. Ha! I’m off to eat breakfast and organize my house! Until lunchtime. :-)
Kate
lol… as I (built my whole Post on) you guys have something pretty special with your FTSF ‘hop. very cool (to be able to mess with the collective heads of so many bloggers, once a week!)