Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(before)
…after
Leverage.
It’s kinda hard to see in the photo, but the green thing in the ‘before’ photo is my pry bar. The bridge is over a stream that feeds off the small pond on our property. The pond, in turn, is feed by a small river. The river floods most years (not major, Midwestern flooding, like Christine or Dyanne might consider flooding) but it will raise the water level by a couple of feet, which can be enough to float the bridge off the concrete base on either side of the stream. Then I have to either dis-mantle and re-build (the bridge) or, as is the case this year, move it up and over about 6 feet.
Anyway, that’s how I spent a part of Sunday. Applying force. Moving objects. Changing the environment (or features therein).
…speaking of change. I have been fortunate in having the opportunity to engage in some rather challenging and very productive discussions with the clarks ’round the Doctrine lately. (them being: zoe and Lizzi and Denise and Cyndi). What I have, as a result, is the beginnings of a hint of an insight, regarding how clarks (might) approach the process of change and (the) self-developing of our-own-selfs:
- sure, you can change how you are
- yeah, thinking and learning is how we manifest our efforts to deal with the world, that doesn’t necessarily mean that we will never see real and genuine change
- leverage is about force being applied indirectly, so even though the rational approach is limited in what it can apprehend (in the way of finding new ways of relating the world around us), it (the rational approach) can be used to bring parts of ourselves, (the non-rational parts of ourselves), to the forefront, where, maybe, we can accept them and add these qualities to who we are
like moving a bridge that weighs a few hundred pounds, ya know?
* a slight mis-quote of a line from the movie, ‘Training Day’ starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke
About clarkscottroger
personal change is the only control , yes?
yes.
(the Wakefield Doctrine is for me, not them)
…or
you, not them
after today I feel as though I need a theory for me to impose on them! I know, I know , not this one!!! No Cosmo tests!
lol
now, no one said that you can’t use the awesome Power of Insight to spook ’em. (“I come from a Land far from your little village… I know what you have in closets and I can tell you what frightens you when things go badly. Come, kneel …you’ll feel so much better.”)
You kidding me? You know what I do for a living right? Your’e preachin’ to the choir!
lol
true, just speaking as one CWN* to another
why, Clergy Without Nun(s)… of course!
Im all for CWC
Clergy without… (?)
Clergy without Clergy….call me tainted
(thank you for the ‘set up’)…
Im just a pawn for your nefarious purposes aren’t I?
“Mongo just a pawn”….. (Blazing Saddles)
god! is there anything that doesn’t have a movie reference? lol
so now after all this… when I just wanna make a profound statement of “shit.” my comment thingy wont work… got a reference for that one?
damn! there was one (reference) but I couldn’t find a clip. Albert Brooks was (and presumedly remains) a funny guy. When he first started doing standup, he released a comedy album by the title, ‘Comedy Minus One’…and there was a bit about doing a concert in Texas and needing to get control of the audience, so he decided to use the most powerful technique available, use the word ‘shit’ (it was funnier when you heard him do the bit).
In any event, no luck finding it. But I did come across one of his first bits, ‘Davy and Danny’
Ever see Defending Your Life?
absolutely
2 of my favorite comedians… Albert and Buck Henry
I dont typically like movies. …love that one.
Someone, somewhere once said “Change is the only constant”. I think it was Michelle.