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2014. the Year of the clarks

that’s it. to elaborate on that statement would be to indulge in a clarklike need, (which everyone knows, is not a choice of the individual, rather it is the character of their reality), to understand. Which is is kinda ironic, as the word,  ‘understanding’ has the sense of finality to it ( “ah! I finally understand!”  “I just don’t understand you!”  “Why can’t you understand, I’ve changed!“) and clarks are many things, ‘final and established’ are not on the list of the things (that)…. (clarks) are. So, I will leave it to you to enjoy today’s Post in a manner that is the only manner available to you, according to your predominant worldview, like it could be any other way:

• clarks:  ” but…. but!! granted I had better days and less horrible days this year… oh wait, I see what you mean     yeah  sure  cool   maybe   no, you’re right, this is not the time or place…”
• scotts:  ” you fricken’ clarks!  of course it was your year, you had us around way more than ever  (and, for the record, even though I know that you can’t help with the running yourself down (and running into doors in your haste to make up for something)…. cut it out.”
• rogers: ” well, it’s been…. no wait, what the heck (… lol, you’re welcome)… just what the heck have you started with this rogers with secondary clarks…. but thanks for balancing, or, at least, trying to balance the negative and the positive… even though the clark worldview is, somehow nearly un-workable in terms of quantifiable correctness, it’s a start”

screw it! here I am, worrying about leaving anyone out, if I went with the ‘mention-the-high-points-of-the-year-past ( the fact of the matter, for all of my living inside my head, the things that happened in 2014 that are memorable and significant in my life, issued from people, both real and virtual), but that would be so… clarklike…. so, the only fair way to approach this is to see what comes out of the next 7 minutes of typing….

lol…. er,  I remember…. wait, lets get a category  (honestly! this never happened before!… no, don’t tell me it happens to nearly all bloggers at one time or another) the

2014 brought about: seeing the benefit of knowing other clarks, I wouldn’t call it a community, we clarks are way too …clarklike for that! but I am convinced that my knowing other clarks (as clarks) has improved my life, Lizzi’s efforts to create a community totally manifested this year at the TToT, Cynthia (tbfkac**) graduated  er…graduate school  lol,  and continues to show us what/how clarks can do to improve their own lives (and by doing so, the lives of others), Christine for demonstrating the peculiarly fun relationship between clarks and scotts, Kristi (K2), not only for participating as a roger, but demonstrating the value and impact of secondary aspects, zoe (and her little dog, too! not only for her technical insight into personality and behavior, but her demonstration (of the benefits) that derive from living by the adage ‘to thine ownself be true’…she does that, in very trying circumstances, better than most….and she has a secondary rogerian aspect, but we’re not holding that against her, are we?
(man! try to deliberately do a stream of consciousness and all of sudden, I go all Roberts Rules of Order*** on this here Post here)

…. Kristi  (not only for being a good person, but being a clark who takes it to the world… we all ‘helped’ her get ready for that ‘Voices of’ thing last spring…. and she did an amazing job, despite that!)… and Tucker, for being a person who is growing up in front of us… no, seriously! start blog: small child, write this post:  a friend of mine’s kid  (ok not so good at describing the subtle changes in childhood)….

“…continue Hey I’ll fight tunee securely on the edge hello ok so maybe this dictate as a matter means way of writing a blog postwill require practice I will continue while driving my car stock stop”

back at the keyboard. The above, of course, is me playing with toys, in this case, the dictate-into-the-tablet-as-a-way-to-write-Posts… a thanks to Denise who over the past year has been constantly suggesting that I write down whatever random thoughts I might have while driving, she also deserves mention as a clark-doing-amazing things…. hey! that’s what this Post is all about!

2014 has illustrated the huge potential of a new kind of context, one that is of the real world, with scotts and rogers but with the emphasis on    …not supportive (that’s not possible if you’re an Outsider) not really nurturing ( ’cause that’s what all clarks try to do, except with everyone other than themselves)…. identification   yeah, that’s the touchstone word for this year past, for this inter-something of clarks, along with scotts and rogers!

Instead of needing (from the other person) and without demanding (from the people around us), if I simply identify with you, I gain without taking and (somehow) as a result, can give without being indebted…

sure!  ‘2014 the year of identification’  among clarks and scotts and rogers, because, as we know from the Wakefield Doctrine:  we live our lives in one personal reality (the predominant worldview of the Outsider/clark, the Predator/scott or the Herd Member/roger),  but we always retain the potential to see the world as the other two are experiencing it.

(* yes, I did use that reversing site on a TToT Post in the Year past… (a point to your clarklike nature for noticing it, a point to your rogerian nature if it seems important to let everyone know it)

** tbfkac:  the blogger formerly known as Cyndi

*** no, that doesn’t make sense, but I smiled as I typed it, so it fricken stays