Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
So I was sitting here this morning, knowing that I need to write a Post, but unable to find the right… pitch? tone? hook? (the photo? what does that have to do with this Post? I do not have a clue.)
It started out simply enough, “hey it’s Friday! Lets do the Finish The Sentence Friday bloghop, we like doing bloghops and it’s always good for getting visitors to the D. But, I saw today’s fragment and thought …
exactly! I had nothin. No twist or turn or even a ‘straight answer’ for the Girls of Friday. So, I’m thinking, ” hey!, it’s not the end of the world” ( …no such luck! ha ha! a little joke for you clarks out there), “I’ve been trying to get back to writing at least three Wakefield Doctrine Posts each week. How hard can that be? I’ve been writing these for …well a long time in blog years.”
… (a common mis-unstanding about the ellipsis and the rogerian expression, “dit…dit…dit” they are not synonymous! one is the implied passing of time with nothing happening except the increasing concern over the passing of time…with nothing happening. the other is the approaching inevitability of a series of inter-related events, the initial (event) being hoped for, the subsequent event feared. I’ll get our own Tin Man, Progenitor roger to weigh in on that…this being ‘what-the fuck-am-I-being-allowed-access-to-Readers-with-this-kind-of-confusion Friday. )
still….nothing. then, as I was writing in my journal and rummaging through my trunk of wordtools looking for something anything to find a focus, I came across a phrase I haven’t used in a while, “…get punched in the nose or slapped in the face today” I know you clarklike Readers will be able to infer the intent of this somewhat odd affirmation, if by some chance you’re a roger or a scott and are shaking your head, as you no doubt are, go ask that clark you know. (they’re right there ready to help…god knows we’re always frickin ready to help…as long as it’s someone else.)
Still nothing!
You know what happened? The Wakefield Doctrine happened. I am struck, this morning how, despite my not noticing it, the Wakefield Doctrine and the people drawn to it are carrying it forward. I am not overly capable of describing this feeling of ‘holy shit! they get the Doctrine and they are applying it (for fun and education) in their own lives.’ Except to say: “Very cool. Very disturbing. Very satisfying.”
as it should be. So for today,
- you want to read a perfect Finish The Sentence Friday Post? go to Krist’s Finding Ninee (I would have tried, but couldn’t have said it better).
- you want to get some pointers on workplace Doctrine? go read zoe’s Comment here
- you think you need to organize and improve your life situation? go over to Cyndi’s place at ‘the tude’
- think you’re working under pressure? try this
- want to know how difficult it can be and yet have the changes happen to you and (maybe) be the last to realize it then spend sometime over at Lizzi’s
- just in case you think it’s all ‘sturm an drang’ and such and how we’ll always be battling the world, visit our little scottian friend Christine and get a glimpse of what the Doctrine might help you find within your-own-damn-self
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Sometimes we all are speechless and just can’t come up with something, but love how you shared others work today and huge props on that. Have a great Friday Clark and seriously trust me I have so had my moments, too!!
thank you Janine!
words (or lack of) notwithstanding, this blogging thing is still more fun than most things (that don’t require more than one body part).
Why thank you for sharing me :) and last to get it? I don’t get what you think I’ve gotten that there was to get – but I tell you this – by the time what’s left of me gets round to what’s left to be gotten, whatever’s out there to get won’t be worth getting.
I TOTALLY scotted out today, and had a gorgeous time at netball with my friend – we are SO FUNNY. Somehow always end up marking each other and have a hilarious time cheating, knocking the ball out of each other’s hands, pinning the other one’s arms to her sides…that kind of thing. We have such a laugh. And there’s a fun little closeness there, even though netball is the only realm we know each other in :) Makes my heart happy to have ….. whatever the friendship equivalent of a microclimate is.
I was having one of those days the other day. And right now, with my eyes drooping, I can only say it was nice to come over here and chill out for awhile. :)
And now…the Sandman is BURNING my eyes. I think I gotta check out for the next 8 hours. Probably won’t call in tomorrow night, but perhaps I’ll somehow, don’t know how, get in a TToT post this weekend. :)
Cyndi
yeah… frickin Sandman, huh? will be around TToTville this weekend, of course. hey, remind me to tell you about my walk in the woods…
I’ve never been good at finishing other people’s sentences. Sometimes I don’t even like to finish my… I totally get having nothing to say!
Just thought I stop by and say hello. I know it’s been a while. Glad to see the Doctrine is still going strong over here. :)
Amy
Hey! Amy! good to ‘see’ you. …like being in a different homeroom, huh? lol I think of you (and Cyndi and Janine as being in that Class of Last November at the BB&G*) as I go through the blogosphere each day, see your Posts in ‘the Facebook’… very glad to see that you are still at, though I suspect, the way time passes, I will look up and see your site and see it re-named, ‘Adorable Chaos …embracing the chaos of home Graduate-schooling’ lol there is something about seeing people staying with what they do/what they love, that I have come to appreciate the more time I spend in this ever-changing world of blogs and bloggers.
*Bloppy Bloggers
Very cool. Very disturbing. Very satisfying. Is Clark. Dude. I’m so happy that I found you and the Doctrine and I want to thank you SO SO MUCH for sharing my post as the way to finish the sentence! You rock, my friend. Having heard from somebody that they’d wished I’d have used old photos and stuff (WTF we’re talking about real people here and a Real Husband who will Maybe Read it – probably not but whatever). So how could I go there? I couldn’t. thanks for getting it. Thanks for getting me.
MWAH!!!
Kristi
What a genuinely strange, interesting and very cool world this blogosphere place is, at least in terms of the people who inhabit it, no? the virtual world is so the world for the Wakefield Doctrine and clarks… it is not a less real version of the real world, it is, if anything, a more creative and not-as-easy-as-it-looks reality for people who have the capacity to see the world as it can be… always enjoy watching you express the clarklike worldview in words that everyone/anyone can/might appreciate.
Indeed. The blogosphere is incredibly strange. Beautiful and weird and at times, freaky and stupid. But mostly amazing. Love that it’s not a less real version of the world. It’s a version. And ours. And totally more creative and not as easy reality.
XOXO thanks again, my friend. Much. Hey did you see when I sang a video recently? That was me being a Scott, I think!!!Fucking YIKES.
Kristi
yes… I very def saw it. Bravo!
(I’m glad you know about the Doctrine and clarks, cause otherwise so many things would sound like my being rogerian (i.e. ‘oh yeah…well I sang and danced on my blog’ lol) I say I identified with your singing and it reminded me in a way once when I made singing an ordeal.
(‘ordeals’ are a concept/wordtool I have of trying to find the ‘hardest thing possible for me to do’ and trying to get through it ‘properly’. for me, in my efforts to self-improve myself I think.. what is it that is not normally possible for me. Now, as you know, enduring is nothing to a clark… we endure the shit out of things…we’re the endure champions of the damn world. but there is something about doing things properly that is an order of magnitude better than enduring… I saw that in your singing Post, I saw it in Cyndi’s first video Post… and it was, as you correctly note… your scottian aspect coming to the fore. (your being a clark with a strong secondary scottian aspect, imo)…anyway for me singing was a strange infirmity, lol I acquired from my mother (a clark of the first order, lol) that I could not sing. that simple. (actually it was worse than that, but beyond the scope and typing endurance at the moment…remind me to tell you the story) in any event the concept of singing was the most impossible thing I could manage and so, for some reason a few years ago I got it into my head to take singing lessons! It was one of those community ‘old dog’ education programs in a local elementary school ( tai chi, yoga, advanced gardening and singing…like that). I signed up, I went to the class I sing in front of strangers. but…but! the thing that made it good for me (not enjoyable! but good) was that I did not endure it… I did it with a different state of mind/emotion… I will totally not be surprised that you know what I mean…to have do something that causes the anticipation of fear and yet not experience it as fear when the time came… very strange people we clarks are non?
HOLYFUCK YES. We Clarks endure even when there’s so much anticipation and nervousness beforehand and then, it’s like we’re just righthtere! And everybody tells us how great we were but we were so in the Scott adrenaline that we find it hard to believe that we were so awesome and fear that we’ll NEVER EVER EVER be able to repeat our likability and incredibleness. I love that you took a voice lesson recently. That’s balls, you. Big huge ones. We’re fucking weird. Bottom line. But also? I wouldn’t have us be anybody else. Non?
I often feel an absence of words… Yeesh I read this post this afternoon and didn’t know what to write so I came back to seal the deal… still don’t know… Thanks for the shout out though… Hey did you get the photos in the shirt? It was my buddy Heidi…She thinks she’s a Roger… hmmm?
zoe
no! I did not see them… which email did you use ( Talking Heads: ‘changed my hairstyles so many times now, I don’t know what I look like‘)? let me know!
Hey Clark, you once sent me a message on my phone… I used whatever address that would have been… was it a work address maybe? I will go to Lizzi’s email and use that one… I just hope I still have the shots I have a habit of cleaning out! I can always get Heidi to do a rerun! She’s a fabulous sport!
zoe
damn! I will check all my various email personae… me and my damn cloud the personal history… lol