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TToT the Wakefield Doctrine ” …la dottrina di Wakefield… sulla strada a Venezia”

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

San Giorgio Maggiore-2

 

1) thanks to Liz for bringing the Wakefield Doctrine to the City of Venice. Our intrepid Doctrineer, is standing before the Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore.   …very cool.

2) The Wakefield Doctrine’s Rite of Hat1

3) I am glad that I’m in a profession that involves interacting with a remarkably diverse group of people, from colleagues to clients …very interesting bunch a people.

4) Less grateful, am I, for the constant struggle to manage my time effectively.  Not the most fun to find that, the list of things that I sent out to accomplish, less and less complete at the end of a day. (Far worse are the days where I look at a List and suspect that the items on it are not really the important things in living a good life.)

5) My wife Phyllis Commented on a Post this week (perhaps it’s just me, but once the novelty of having a blog wore off, Phyllis developed a fairly strong habit of not reading my Posts. Not that she disapproves or anything, but it, (this blog), is not a major feature in her daily life.)

6) I’m sure glad there’s such a thing as the internet and blogs and such, ’cause I have been able to practice and to self-teach myself to write effectively …and well. I’d be less than truthful if I said that I ever received a grade higher than a ‘C’ in classes through the years: English, English Composition, Grammar, Creative Writing 101, Essays and Life, Gerunds and You (a Primer), Sentences, Diagrams and Parsing, (the Seductive Art). Despite that, here I am writing Posts. As fearless and ambitious as a Fourth Grade boy in puppy-love with his teacher, I keep writing and (somehow trusting) that I’ll get better and better until the day that I win her heart with the Best Essay Ever.

7) Did you know that there normally are 4 Guard Virgins who represent the female species and 3 who are male? There are stories that, during one period in the history of the BoSR (aka Secret Book of Rules), (in pre-internet days), there were 4 Guard Virgins (Strong and Virile) and  3 of the Fair Sex. (These stories are only whispered about, as the conflict that inevitably results from this particular numerical advantage, did not…. end well.) Thought you might want to know, I find these stories both fascinating and, dangerously reflectionary of the individual who has the balls (metaphorical and otherwise) to tell them.

8) The Wakefield Doctrine, of course.

9) I am hypo-grateful for the lack of time that Saturdays seem to allow for writing the weekend TToT Post. I have to leave now…will stop in, hopefully in the middle of the day with some photos of my journeys

10) SBoR 1.3  ( my damn!-why-didn’t-I-figure-that-out respects to Liz for seeing the palindromic nature of Everyone’s Favorite Secret Rule)

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1) the Wakefield Doctrine ‘Rite of Hat’  cited in a Post written in 2010 (read it here, and yes, that is Denise)

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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

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  1. Cynthia says:

    Ha!

  2. Cynthia says:

    I just wanted to be first. :P
    How goes it? Me? I am walking the plank of burned-out-dom but otherwise fine.
    Instead of trying to get A’s…I’ve been thinking a lot about Cookie Monster: C is for cookie, that’s good enough for me…C is for cookie, that’s good enough for MEEE!
    I miss writing too much. I’ve not been blogging but I have been journaling…get this: 12,000 words in the past 12 days. I get up in the wee hours of the morning just to have time to do so. It’s very cathartic, I might add. I’d do that on the blog, but…well…there are certain things I don’t want the world…or even work…to know. :P
    Hope you’re well. Visiting the in-laws later today. Dunno if I’ll be able to call in. If we’re not eating dinner, well, I’ll call ya. :)

    • Denise; says:

      Food or Doctrine? Food or Doctrine? Aren’t they one in the same? LOL

      12,000! Writing and music. 2 of the most cathartic activites imo.
      You are approaching the finish line!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Cyndi

      FRIST you are!
      journaling if that’s writing, to yourself, like in a diary and Doogie Howser-like, it might surprise you that I have been a fan of that (morning) activity from, like even before the Doctrine blog. (In fact, I used to write on a yellow lined pad every morning…still use them, (the yellow pads), in my real world work, despite the phone and the tablet and the computers.
      Hey! you know what I’ve taken up doing that you’ll get a kick out of? I found (in Staples) fountain pens! sure, they’re just Bic and they’re disposable but….but! fountain pens (“…yes children…before there were Sharpies there were felt tip pens and before that!!! fountain pens! god’s way of saying, “want to enjoy doodling but don’t have an ounce of artistic ability? here…try this fountain pen!” lol)

    • zoebyrd says:

      Cyndi: another useful chant… “All I gotta do is a 2.2!” =C

  3. Denise; says:

    Love giant pictures! Damn that Doctrine gets around. Global. It’s glow-bul.

    He! Whadya mean “yes, that is Denise”?! lol

  4. Glad that the doctrine went to Venice this week! Astounding photo, that. Roger to Phyllis and Una!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      yeah… have never been (personally) but it’s a good feeling to know that there are a certain number of ..Venitians(?) Venusians(?) Italians!! (and assorted others) who right at this moment might be thinking “Wakefield?!?! Doctrine?!! what must that have meant!”

  5. Jen @ Driftwood Gardens says:

    I am also super grateful for the world of blogging. My hubby used to read every post in the beginning and now I know he doesn’t anymore, and I don’t blame him, but I would be happy to see a comment from him! I never knew 3 of the Guard Virgins were male – fascinating story!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Jen

      It doesn’t bother me (except sometimes when I think I’m ‘really on’)… lol yeah the SGV fascinating bunch (remind me to ask Cyndi, if she gets to call in tonight, if she has any further background on this aspect of their closely guarded personal lives)

  6. fangboner1 says:

    Number four. Yes so much this.

  7. Kristi says:

    I’ve got to say, reading #6 has given me an image of 4th-grade you as Ralphie (from A Christmas Story).

  8. Lisa @ The Meaning of Me says:

    The Hub reads all of my posts, but rarely comments. When it does, it feels like a huge big deal. I admit that I get way too excited about comments from anybody, but his are extra special.
    I want to know about the Rite of Hat.
    I’ve settled on Roger with a side of Clark…and no, it’s not such a bad thing. I just hate the word “herd” and I think that totally turned me off.

  9. Sandy Ramsey says:

    You know I don’t think my husband has ever read any of my blog posts. I’ll have to ask him. I am a little jealous of the Doctrine taking a trip to Venice. I wore my shirt to the beach once but that’s not nearly as exciting…

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Sandy

      (…as a measure of the abstract reality of the clarklike worldview), I will say that I too am a little jealous of the Doctrine getting to Venice…

  10. Kristi Campbell - findingninee says:

    My husband never reads my blog either. I’m okay with that though. Mostly. I mean, obviously everybody should read it but if he wants to rot his brain with football and whatever the stupid video game is that he’s been playing for like 10 years is… who am I?
    Love that the Doc went to Venice.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      lol

      yeah… you know, I’m always comparing RL with the ‘sphere . I was thinking, in most of the couples configurations that I know, each (of the pair) have friends that are ‘not shared’, but usually in RL, these are legacy friends… people we know from younger days that we ‘keep’ and most of the time there is a physical separation (that contributes to this friend of 1/2 of the couple effect). I’m wanting to say that the friends (and the number and extent of these relationships) are intrinsically different here in the blogosphere… almost as if you (and the others here) are a reflection and support of and reflection of a part of me that is relatively recent in my life, as opposed to ‘my own friends’ who reflect the me when I was much younger and, therefore, a different person.

      ya know?

  11. lrconsiderer says:

    A 4/3 split makes sense. I LIKE the new idea about the stories, though requiring the literal balls to tell them rather corners the market, donchathink? :p

    I like that Phyllis read you. I have the same thing going with Husby – it’s just not on his radar for most of the time. Which sometimes is a good thing, yaknow?

    Hope you manage to figure your lists out. I don’t tend to keep lists, because I don’t like the feeling of not having achieved them…

  12. dyannedillon says:

    Did my comment go to your spam again?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      the one about being a scott?

      • dyannedillon says:

        That was for a different post. Did THAT go in spam? I wrote something about my husband not reading my posts very often, because he claims he lives them. Then he does read one and finds out stuff he didn’t know, like that I ate a pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and didn’t tell him that was why I wasn’t hungry for dinner. It was better the first time I wrote it….

        • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

          what an excellent idea for a Post! (lets pick a day and have everyone write a Post: ‘How-my-Spouse-sees-my-Blog’ maybe sometime at the end of the month? you’re a scott, tell everyone to do it (once you and I have agreed on a Date) and they totally will want to join in!

  13. valj2750 says:

    Where’s the footnote for the Rite of Hat? What is the Rite of Hat? Oh – that hat in the photo. Never mind. My hub never reads my blog. Sometimes I read it to him. He’s afraid he’ll unwittingly show up in it, but I would never do that. Those Virgins are tricky, I guess.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      I have a couple of Posts that deal with the Rite of Hat, in a nutshell: we have all read enough history to know that, at one time or another, most of the world has been claimed as property by one person (acting on behalf of other people) despite the fact that these lands/countries/cultures are totally inhabited and were getting-along-just-fine-thank-you until the guys with the greater firepower show up. Anyway… I skimmed through the google and came upon the Treaty of Tordesillas which, by my reading, was the legal instrument by which ownership was transferred from the people (who actually possessed it) to other people (who just happened to have guns and horses and shit)… sure.
      But the map of the planet reflects this abstract concept, in very real geopolitical terms… so, I thought if King John and Pope Alexander VI could do, why not the Wakefield Doctrine? (other than the massive armies, political and economic power, why should they be allowed to annex whole damn continents and we can’t?!)

      If you have a Wakefield Doctrine hat (on your damn head) and stand in front of stuff you have a right to claim it as your own. (here is an example:)

  14. I so agree with no. 3 and no. 4. On the time management: I so feel about a step or two behind where I am supposed to be most of the time, trying to at least keep the appearance up that I am in control of our lives and schedules. I bet from the outside it’s not nearly as bad as I feel, the plight of a perfectionist. Enjoy your weekm Clark, and congrats for the Doctrine to arrive in Venice!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      yeah (I’m right now, at this minute writing replies to the Comments of the weekend and (actually) convincing myself, if I do a proper List I can get the stuff done today that I need to get done.)

      and as you and I know, it’s not the ‘List’, it’s our emotional content (sorta like mood, only more encompassing) that allows us to manage our time effectively.

  15. christine says:

    I still can’t believe I didn’t take my WD t-shirt (for my damn back) to Europe with me. I wear it all the time, and I could have gotten lots of photos with it. So sorry. It is on the packing list for the next time I get to travel overseas.
    Bryan doesn’t read my blog, either. His mom and aunt does, but he does not. How cool that Phyllis chose to not only read, but comment, on a post!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Christine

      yeah, she is aware of the reason I spend most of my non-working, awake hours here at my computer…lol But then, the vidchats went a long way towards making this blog thing more than ‘writing one of the those Post things, again?!!’

      Definitely (to the next trip… I need to get a new batch of docTees made) they tend to fade and wear out and such.

  16. Okay, seriously?! There are hats? No one told me there would be hats!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      There are (or have been) Wakefield Doctrine hats ‘for your damn head’ in the past. It seemed like no one really wanted to wear a hat, thats where the docTees came from… ya gotta be able to show the world that you know about the Wakefield Doctrine no?
      in fact, Liz (the Liz in today’s photo from Venice has a photo of her wearing her docTee in front of the Vatican, lol) (punchline to old joke: ‘who’s the guy with Fred?’)

  17. Pattie says:

    I need a hat as I need more real estate. My husband does not read my blog but he always wants to know what my TtoT post is before I post it. I guess he thinks that is the only thing I ever write. More and more that does seem to be the only thing I ever post but still…I will take part in the How-My-Spouse-Sees-My-Blog if Dyanne ever picks a date. Then I’ll have something more than a TToT post for the month. Oh yes, Guard Virgins…who knew?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Pattie

      (we discontinued the hats (for a person’s damned head) as it seemed that no one would wear them… at least not most of the readers, at the time, in any event.)

      say what you will about scotts (why, yes I do say quite a bit), but once they get enthusiastic about an idea…they are on it like a puppy and one of those big-knotted-rope-toy-thingies-they-love-to-play-tug-of-war-so-much-that-you-can-like-lift-them-in-the-air-as-they-hold-on-convinced-in-their-scottian-minds-that-“now-they-have-you-right-where-they-want-you”

      ya know?

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