Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks scotts and rogers)
You know how when you sit and get an idea for a Post, and at first it’s all, “yeah! what frickin great idea, this’ll knock their socks off!” but then, as you start to write it, you’re all… “damn! this is a great idea but either I got no clue how to express it, or it’s a monster writing job and there’s like an hour left before I have to leave for: a) work, b) the Tennis Club c) the soccer field d) the Fields of Wamsutta … well, am I in or am I out?”
Lets do this thing!
Ok. Fine… a little set-up is in order. This the Wakefield Doctrine and today is Saturday, which means we write a Post to participate in the TToT bloghop-and-weekend-extravangza. Please read the other Posts showing below, then you will not only get an idea of how beneficial an exercise such as this can be, but will enjoy the many outstanding and gifted writers and bloggers who join us each weekend. You’re bound to find something among (these other Posts) that will cause you to stop and think, “you know, now that she said it, I can see how I might look at my situation more positively! Go TToT!!”
1) I’m grateful to everyone who voted and the Mandate is clear! Thank you! Thank you! I am totally grateful and hope to not let you all down.
2) I am grateful that there is not a lot of discussion of the ‘real world’ in this bloghop ( Lizzi’s efforts on behalf the less fortunate are (an exception) simply because she is advocates for what she is willing to do, not what others should do… big difference imo …as to the real world depicted in all our blogs… those are all Tales of lives, the remarkable gift of the blogosphere to us Readers
3) I am way thankful to zoe and Denise and Liz for the stimulation last night*
4) well, sure I saw the Poll results (yeah, this is being written before anyone can vote so, there is a certain calculated risk on how I proceed, pollistically-speaking)
(For record, Phyllis and I have always had a family of ourselves and ‘an only dog’. I used to be fond of saying, “yeah, but the advantage of dogs over human children is that they are always glad to see you when you come home and never get to a point (in their lives) where they have friends that they would rather spend time with and then go off to college.”
That being said, there is always the ‘well you’d have to have children to understand‘ situations.
I just got off the phone ( you see up there…#4?? I wrote that 27. minutes. ago.) When I read a blog Post from a parent, lamenting over the lack of adult romantic time available, what with the kids being just down the hall, I can say with complete conviction, “I understand. I had such a…. ambition for this Post, what with the clever Polls and funny things I could …stick in them, gone as surely as a voice in the night, “Daddy I just threw up on Billy”. … if you don’t mind, I’ll finish this post, because now it’s time to go to work… maybe later in the day, I can sneak back here, perhaps I’ll remember the one Poll Questions that were bubbling up in my writers sub-whatever….)
5) Work… I am grateful for my work, even if it causes the occasional ‘postus interruptus‘ like this morning…. hey the photo on the ‘front’ page? that was from yesterday as I drove around rural Connecticut…. I enjoy driving
6) Phyllis. she is as enlightened a roger as there is out there, which, in all selfishness, is great for me because I not only get a rogerian view of the Doctrine (as I enjoy from Kristi and Michelle) but, she, Phyllis is demonstrating some aspects of the rogerian worldview that is totally furthering my understanding and appreciation of that 3rd personality type
7) …awright…. not an overly funny or exciting (recovery time goes way up as a blogger ages, ya know ) Poll:
8) too soon, right? $&#*&^^@!! I really was looking forward to writing this Post! I know I should simply accept that, ‘the moment’ has passed and there’ll be another Saturday morning when I can come back and write a Post that will…. knock ya socks off!
9) yeah, zoe…. Lizzi! one doesn’t mess with the Seven! play with them and they will mess you up! Hey! Sarah…. we still are totally encouraged to comment-thread-jump, i.e. totally interrupt the conversation that occasionally develops when a Comment causes the blog author to see new insights!
10) SR 3.1 (the first and my favorite of the Secret Rules….) hey! if you have any Poll questions that you would like to see here… leave them in the Comments, I’ll be happy to put them in the Post
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* barum…bump! no, seriously we were on a Friday Night vidchat and it was all I have come to look forward to….
About clarkscottroger
I LOVE IT! Mostly because it’s the first time ever my answers matched 100% of the other answers. Admittedly I may be the first to take the poll….but let’s just focus on the positives. The thankfuls! I’m thankful to be able to join in again, FINALLY! And thankful for a quiz that didn’t make me feel like I didn’t study. And for Clark, who seems a little Scotian in this post, me thinks.
I totally support anyone’s decision to NOT have children. The human race is definitely not about to die out. In fact it’s getting a little crowded on this rock!
Joy
What a nice thing to say! (the part about my secondary scottian aspect)…. coming from a scott, that is high praise indeed (yeah…I know, I’m totally killing the moment by talking too much…)
lol
SWEET TURKEY GRAVY, WAS I FRIST???
total…not even un-fold-the-expensive-linen-napkins FRIST!
I think I am still feeling a bit lost. But at the same time I completely understand. If that makes any sense at all.
…this is where I usually post the traditional warning about the Wakefield Doctrine (how, if you start to see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world, you may find it impossible to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world)
….. but reading your penultimate sentence, I suspect that I’m a little too late
lol welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!
gimme time… Im at work… I will come back with a question… maybe I will poll a few rogers here….
oh hey…. I really appreciated last nights conversation as well… even with you existentializling all over my bitchiness! lol!
…what I hear you saying, zoe is…. (lol)
Whatever stimulation happened Friday night, it sounds…intriguing?
I love the poll – I can’t resist a poll. Ever.
It was a bit intriguing though mostly it was fun and in places it got a bit meaningful.
It was good.
I’m not sure about a post ENTIRELY made of polls. I dread to imagine how you’d explain it to the 7GV – “Oh, well, yes..it’s the interactive version”
yeah well look what they did to my ambitions for the post… long, total buzz-kill work phone call!
that’s what we do best on Friday Night Vidchats, is it not?
Absolutely :D But Kristi wasn’t there and we need to fix that next week. Or the week after, cos next week I’m gonna be out and drunkish.
totally… (and if you are on the vidchat and do anything …oddish, that’s alright, we just won’t tell you!)
lol
Love it!! I’m a sucker for polls, makes me feel like I count *haha*.. Anyways, I wanted to write my own answer to the second poll (to matter even more), but that was not an option.. This is oftentimes an issue I have with polls, that none of the answers really apply. That’s why I liked the Doctrine personality test, because I could comment (at least in the comment section, obviously). Mentioning: I need more sleep, I need more hours in my day, and I need Santa to be real so I don’t have to deal with gifts… Why am I writing that? No idea, sudden outburst. Need to sleep to appear more balanced than I actually am.. ?!?
Stephanie
By all means, if you would like to add ‘an answer’ I’ll be happy to edit the poll
I am a sucker for lists and polls. Love to see the science behind how people think. As for the list of 10- life often gets in my way. I either get to comment some OR right, depending upon the call of dogs, or kids or Mutant. One day it must be a list of 10 polls. That would be fun!
totally agree about the fun a List of 10 Polls would be…. of course, with my stream of ‘consciousness’ approach to coming up with Poll questions, I probably should be more leery of that idea than I am!
lol
While I do like a good poll, good gravy, Man. (You know what I’m thinking, so should I bother saying it? Hell yes!) If you just spent the time writing your thankfuls that you did all the other stuff, you’d have your list done in no time. But then, you wouldn’t be my favorite Clark, with a capital C.
Glad to see Phyllis made the list this week.
you said ‘good gravy’… damn. I will leave your understanding of me to inflect the following, “I am grateful to this bloghop for bringing me into contact with a person (a scott, no less) that I would count among my online friends who can use the expression ‘good gravy’ and have it carry a variety of nuance that is beyond my rhetorical skills.
(I repeat, ‘damn!’)
oh yeah, thank you….
I polled the FRIST two but then skipped and wrote the crazy fuck 2 days ago and used Lizzi and my boobs for this one but um dogs vs. human babies and all of the babies and well shit. Great post…
so, are you the ‘one take’ type of blogger (my bet is yes) or the plan and define and refine and such (my bet is not so much)
Hmm. I’m pondering over that strikethrough. Yes, I’m glad that I am a balanced Roger! On another note, sorry that I’ve been a little MIA on the vid chats! Promise to catch up!
np…we’ve all be missing in action for the last couple of not-too-damn-cold-to-go-outside months!
yeah… hey, I just saw the ‘strikethrough’ what the hell? I will refresh my link to getting literal… I don’t recall there being a strikethrough before!
I liked your polls except for the last. None of those answers was quite right.
lol
I agree. I got way too hung up on the word “perfect.” I take too long writing to qualify as spontaneous, but not as much time as I need to make my posts perfect.
(If I may) a roger with a secondary clark! ;)
Yes, and sometimes I think the secondary is trying to take over. :-)
it (the notion of a secondary and tertiary aspect) is one of the best things about the Doctrine, it would have us believe that, rather than trying to be something we are not (often the conflict encountered on the path of self-developing ourselfs), all we need do is realize the potential that we have to cope with a different world (one shared by ‘the other 2/3rds of the population’). Rather than have to find and learn something new and therefore not genuine to who we are, we need only accept ourselves both ‘as we are’ and ‘as we might have been’.
ya know?
I almost put a poll in my TTOT post this weekend and then didn’t – so I laughed when I saw all of yours.
As for great blog post ideas that don’t quite work out the way we planned – yeah, I got lots of those – not quite as many as the great ideas that I never even get around to trying to write (postus interruptus INDEED with work and life and all) so I all round just kind of adore this!
well it seems (from early returns) that most bloggers like the ‘one take’ approach to writing*
this blogging is one strange but in an amazing way, good pastime…
* well, we probably should add a factor, bloggers who participate in the TToT and have fun with the Wakefield Doctrine…
Hi Clark! I thought your idea to use polls in your post was BRILLIANT…and just might have to “borrow” the idea myself in the future. :-) And yes, I totally agree with your opening paragraph where you get some idea and it seems AMAZING until you set down to write it and wonder why in the world you thought others would be interested. I am VERY THANKFUL for finding your blog throught the TToT because I appreciate your humor :-) ~Kathy
thank you…. the fun is in the adventure of the writing (as in, ‘ok, go ahead, write that…. just don’t blame if everyone gets mad/laughs/wants to see more’) lol
I love this post. I love the polls. They remind me of those Facebook tests I like to take – like what kind of wings do you have? What era should you have been born into? What sitcom parent are you most like? What were you in another life? (I got Mata Hari). Enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday, Clark.
Thank you, Val you do as well
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to hop on board the TToT train because I saw the “secret book” comment somewhere and I got intimidated. I couldn’t find information on it anywhere…because duh…it was secret. I didn’t want to be “that guy” who broke the “secret rules” and be ridiculed for it so I became that creeper.
I. Was. A. Creeper.
You all reduced me to a creeper.
Thanks for that.
I’m still trying to figure you out though Clark. You’re mysterious.
there are rumours to the effect that there will be a compilation of the Secret Book of Rules (aka Book of Secret Rules) but they are probably not true…. though I would ask zoe, seeing how she is our resident expert on the Seven Guard Virgins (oh shit! did we not mention them?!)…. er never mind! lol
the BoSR/SBoR is the magic mirror of conformity for participants in a bloghop that has at times been charitably referred to as “no, they are all rather nice people, skilled writers and grateful and all but what’s the deal with that Doctrine blog, I mean, is that like one person pretending to be three or three people….”
Lizzi’s original instructions to the 10 co-hosts was: “lets create a community here each weekend and if someone would please keep an eye on clark…. Christine!! where do you think you’re going, get back in here!”