Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(the Wakefield Doctrine is at the near-mid-point of ‘the Great 30 Day ‘so-you-think-you’re-out-of-things-to-write-about-for-this-blog-so-why-not-write-a-Post-a-Day-?’ Challenge!’ if you laugh, yet nevertheless think that this is a reasonable response to a common problem for blog writers, you might want to head over to the Page on clarks (upper right in on the Landing Page). no, wait! just consider the following: often upon waking to a new day, I will stop and think, “I can do this! I have what it takes to deal with that world out there”. If you think there is nothing odd about that viewpoint1, then you might want to join the clarks over at the clarks Page. no, don’t worry, no one will bother you or quiz you about what you’re doing or ask you questions about yourself… just browse through the stuff you find there and get back to us…whenever.)
OK!
1) Glad to see the noticeable increase in the canine contingency, at least in terms of their being included in photos in a lot of TToT Posts this weekend.
2) zoe is away on a trip this weekend, which is only sensible, since in this part of the country, Autumn lasts about 3.7 days and then it’s Winter-practice. (Winter-practice is when all the leaves fall on the ground and the days pretend to be comfortable in temperature until you forget your jacket and then you’re freezing until you can get home.)
3) grateful for the technology that allows this whole blog and post and instant communication thing… a fairly comment Item on this (and other) Grat Lists, but valid nonetheless.
4) I referenced photos in my subtitle, so lets look at this:
5) I am ‘re-impressed’ with the skills of those of you who use photos as an integral part of your Posts… way harder than it looks! (I’m thinking of Kristi and Susan and Jen and them)
6) I’ve gotten a lot from this weekend’s various TToT lists…for whatever reasons I’m hearing a lot of clarks describing their dealing with the pressures of maintaining the good things (that they know they have every right to have, but….lol), in their lives.
7) excellent Call-in last night! Cyndi stole herself sometime to join us and it was great fun. We, (Denise and Cyndi), talked about the positive benefits of interacting with other clarks. This may not seem like much, as we all are surrounded by clarks and scotts and rogers, but there is something about clarks who are aware of (being clarks) interacting with other clarks, that opens one up to benefits that are amazing. That we, (clarks), can identify with each other and, by doing so, give ourselves a break (from time to time). I ‘ve had this kind of conversation with Lizzi on a number of occasions, i.e. that when I see her do well or go through a bad time and still come through it all without giving up or losing everything, then I gain just a tiny bit of…not hope, not even encouragement, more… that it’s that my own ‘certainty’ becomes altered in a positive way. (yeah, if any of that makes any sense at all… follow the arrows to the clark dept.! lol)
8) Una and Phyllis for the fun of altering the home environment
9) video (warning! I haven’t listened to it since I made it… I suspect it’ll be alright)
10) you’d be surprised at how you can do one of these and not have a clue as to all that you said and, more importantly, how it comes across… oh well.
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1) of course, the ‘other two’ may not be inclined to articulate what they feel is wrong with that statement, about ‘the world out there’, and that’s because scotts and rogers don’t view the world as being ‘out there’, as in being apart from, separate from, a different thing. they (the scotts and the rogers are in the real world and that’s pretty much that)
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No, it’s not that important I be Frist. No. Not in the least. But if I am, then it’s off to blog land and the abundance of reading material!
Most excellent road name, Hell Hollow Rd., however – wouldn’t want to live on it. No sir.
Tell me, Mr. Clark. Why is it clarks are willing to “travel in the wrong direction”. (You spoke the words in this vid, I interpreted a metaphor.) It is a true thing. It is a fact of clarks. The willingness to veer from the “well trodden” path.
Denise
FRIST you are (probably mostly ’cause zoe is still on vacay…lol)
no, actually, in this case it is a literally true statement! I should have gone left at the first turn to continue with my day, but it is such a cool bunch of geography though I am a little disappointed with my camera work on this one… nice steering wheel, non?
It came across well, and #4 is lovely. I’m not a desert-rat by nature (and I have no idea how that plays into Wakefield doctrine, if at all), and seeing green (not with envy, but literally green plants) always gives me that “ah”, calming feeling.
Kristi
yeah, it seemed to be such a classic shot… the still pond reflecting the sky (though the blue in the real sky washed out)… and it had that semi-optical illusion/allusion of ‘as above, so below’ to it.
oh wait! yeah, on the call last night… (you would have enjoyed the conversation) at one point we were talking about photography and the Doctrine and the saying that clarks are good photographers but the professional photographers are pretty much all rogers or words to that effect. remind me to invite you to call us next Saturday (with the time difference, it might work out…)
Hey! Missed the vidchats……will catch up on those!
yeah…I think as we get into the Fall around here, Friday nights will be a regular thing
Yes – in the end there was precisely no uptake this week, and what with Zoe being away and you being (self-confessedly) late, it just all fizzled out with nary a whimper.
SCHEDULING!
ORDER!
PREPAREDNESS!
I…just can’t. We’ll keep winging it, hm?
…the most challenging thing I find is holding the faith that good things will change an adapt for the best if we let them, the vidchats I find are ‘necessary’ as are any other possible realtime conversations… with the other’s I can call on the phone, we the vidchats we don’t have telephone bills of $7,398.12 …
I’m of the belief that vidchats, like so much else in the ‘sphere, need to already be there, for most people to come and enjoy… we have done a good thing with creating the ‘space’… lets see who comes out this Fall…
Im back and it was freezing but just right… the beach is right in any weather… the beach with dogs is extra right! Skip couldnt come because he is just too nervous in the car for so many hours… he would have loved being there but … oh well… the other dogs were just great…I am looking forward to vidchats being more steady again… and I wont say the “W” word here but I am looking forward to cooler weather … sorry….
yeah… to the whole beach thing, nothing bad about the ocean.
thank you for not saying the Winter word. lol
The photo is stunning. And winter practice? That is a great way to describe it.
Lisa
thanks… one of those shots that look better when I get them (in email from my phone) but when I insert them into the Post, it kind of throws it off a little.
I am resolving to not act surprised when it gets cold… How I find that not insane, even though I can be heard saying, ‘what? it’s not supposed to be this cold yet!!’
lol
I am still very confused about scotts, rogers, and clarks. Does it help that I know that I am an ENFJ?
Pattie
:…yes, but not for the reasons you might hope”*
(*hey, no zoe I am not being vague and cruel…)
the thing about the Doctrine, Pattie, is that it is not a personality classification system (though it can sound like that with our three ‘personality types’). The Wakefield Doctrine is a way of considering everything as manifestations of the characteristic way we have of relating ourselves to the world around us… that wasn’t overly clear, was it?
Let me say I am grateful for your question/Comment. My goal is (and always has been) to describe the Wakefield Doctrine in a manner that anyone with an interest can read and understand and apply for their benefit and amusement. I’m not as good at this as I might hope to be, but that, is for me, the challenge of this blog.
Perhaps I should, with your consent of course, use your Comment as the basis for a Post. (The part where consent is important to me is not the “…I am still confused about scotts, rogers and clarks” that I get from a lot of Readers (lol)… but you have added a … personal element, your telling us about your Meyers Briggs status and if clarks are anything, they are way big on avoiding impinging on another’s privacy.
Let me know if this would be ok with you.
(One thing I might ask. I’ve always told Readers that no one can tell another person what their predominant worldview is… that rule was well intentioned, but, given the caliber and character of the people we find here, it has been kinda unnecessary. (It was meant avoid having one person say, ‘hey! new reader! you’re a scott… or a clark…or a roger’ and having the new Reader feel like, ‘well fuck you… I don’t agree, but if you say so’)
I also frequently say, that if you are interested in the Doctrine, keep in mind, ‘you can’t break it (by doing it wrong) and you can’t get it wrong’. (this second half would form the central theme of the Post, if you reply back.)