Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
you might have to click on the photo to enlarge it enough to see the temperature on the dashboard…14F
…you want to hear something weird? As I sat down and started writing this Post, I had a flashback to when I was a kid in the 1960s when the Catholic Church introduced Saturday evening Mass. There was a movement in the Roman Catholic church to liberalize the faith, (perhaps better to say, ‘liberalize the practice of the faith’, and please now don’t hold me to the chronology …it was the 1960s), but I think the progression was: changing from all Latin Mass, removing the prohibition against eating meat on Fridays, and then having a Mass on Saturday evening that ‘counted as going to Sunday Mass’. Now, I’m not saying that Posting on Friday evening is the same as going to Saturday Mass, instead of Sunday morning Mass, but…. you know I was very much a clark, even back then, at age…say 5 or 6… I seem to recall reacting to (these) changes with thoughts along the lines of concern. It’s interesting, this sensitivity to change in a clark, something you would associate with rogers. (I recall taking piano lesson when I was about 12. Being a clark, naturally, I was semi-precocious, and I took to the lessons pretty easily. The drawback was that even then, as a clark, I thought of learning to play the piano as a ticket (or at very least, a socially-negotiable skill) to acceptance. I would daydream about playing and impressing people. (clarks reading this will recognize the poignantly incorrect use of the term ‘impress people’… that it was not to make them feel envious of my skill, rather it was to trade my efforts (to acquire it) for their acceptance of me as a real person.)
Anyway….here we are Friday night. Not that there’s anything wrong with writing a TToT Post on a Friday Night!! It just so happens that I have amore (no!! no!!! a more than busy day…. a more! that’s what I meant!!) so it’s good that I can get this post out of the way early.
1) the photo up at the top? that is, I believe, Monday morning in my car, on my way back from Hell Hollow Rd (Voluntown CT). It was very cold. But there was no snow on the ground and so my opening Grat Item is: no snow….at least up until today.
2) hey! Una and I went for a walk today! (I managed to get home before dark and thought, well, why the hell not?) Here is the vid:
3) as I mentioned in the video, I feel like doing some video Items, so lets start out with one of the first TToT video Posts…last Summer (or maybe that was the Summer before)
4) I am grateful for ‘the youtube’ for the car videos… now just so Christine doesn’t feel that it’s just me …what with the driving and filming and such, following is a video from a couple of years ago, on a Saturday Night Drive… there were two real people in the car with me and 2 people, ‘in the dashboard’…
5) [This place reserved for a photo taken while on the road tomorrow…. requests are being accepted….only requirements: unlikely place, found in New England, interesting, but not too girlish…]
6) Working with a young, new agent at the office. (By ‘new’ I mean, in ‘the business’ about a year or so… by ‘young’ I mean 24 years old…by ‘working with’ I mean the kid’s a clark… aiyee! I’m learning (against my will and otherwise) a lot about myself…lol but, that’s what this personality theory of ours is for, right?
7) Some might call this too inconsequential to be on a grat list, but: I’m grateful for knowing people like Lizzi, (though any number of you out there might have come up with something as fun as the expression), ‘Thursday’s kind of the Tuesday of the end of the week.’ (…from ‘the Facebook’ this week).
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9) (Hey! that second video? In it, I believe I stated that #9 was ‘sense of direction’ as in being grateful for the clark’s natural sense of direction…
10) Got to say I’m so grateful for the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)… as the old saying goes, “If it’s not in ‘the Book’ then you must be mistaken!!” lol… yeah, getting kind of late, will have to get up early tomorrow and finish this here Post here.
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Plenty of orca moments in that first vid. Thanks Una! I have some thought to a nongirlie NE destination. Frist?
FRISTissimus
Hey! The following is my comment on Google+ in response to Vid 1:
“Hypo-chronological”. I vote for that one. No, rogers are so not subject to the normal contraints of time. What an excellent, previously, unexplored topic! Don’t forget to talk about how they can bounce all around timelines and back again as if all (“events”) were “equal”. A thing from 5 years ago can have the same emotional impact on them (no, you explain the “manifesting”) as something from present day. There is a connectedness….for them.
Hey Clark! TToT with 20 grats?! Nice try. Don’t think for a minute that next week you can lay claim retroactively, by virtue of undiscovered pages of the BoSR/SBoR, to have already written your TToT post. LOL
damn! is that cool, or what?
I love the word penultimate.
I …too do
You sound just like my great-grandma! Let me explain: My great-grandma gave my grandparents a piano, so that my mom could learn how to play. Great-grandma always said that knowing how to play the piano would make my mom popular.
(And I never knew you played the piano.)
hey! you’re a roger (lol…yes, you already knew that)… tell me about how this look from the perspective of person in your world (how does it manifest)… I also play(ed) guitar (which is not so special, given the times I grew up, everyone who wasn’t destined to become a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or other a real career, played in a band back then)… that’s not the question though… when the time came to write this blog (and take the story of the Wakefield Doctrine to the world)… I stopped playing guitar. And have not played since. And refuse to even try. This has something to do with a feeling (I have) that the drive and energy that has made writing this blog anything but work might be disturbed if I started trying to express myself musically.
What are your feelings on this example?
Well, you are right to use the word “feelings”. It makes me sad, actually. I understand not wanting to disturb the fun of blogging, but I think that creativity drives creativity. Music enhances life. It doesn’t, however, necessarily translate well into blog posts. Sometimes I’ll want to use a lyric from a song, or a musical phrase, but don’t think it’s a commonly-known song. Then I try to find a Youtube video to explain, but can’t find one posted by the artist, and I get worried about copyright violations, . . .
Hey, how about you record examples of music that show the three worldviews? :-)
I agree about the use and place and value of music… but it’s power is often under-appreciated, at least to the extent of how pervasive music is/can be (in contrast with other endeavors, this blog has been remarkable, as I’ve said elsewhere, it has produced more energy than I have used to continue it… very interesting thing.
good idea… I’ll want to think a bit about that… it’ll be a matter of definition i.e. music performance, creation, or music itself can there be rogerian music or is it a matter of a musical form/style having expressions that represent the 3 worldviews… more to follow
It is indeed interesting how we learn so much more about ourselves when dealing with others! Yay for getting out early and go for a walk with Una. Somehow, walks seem to be somewhat of a theme this week..
Writing early is better than writing late; happened to me once and I couldn’t post any more!
Enjoy your weekend, Clark!
yeah… it was fun (the ‘walk’) for me it pretty much has to be the morning (this TToT is the exception, having written it (first draft anyway) on Friday night)
I took piano as a kid. My scott mother insisted that I take lessons. I wanted to play guitar, though. Because maybe that was my ticket to acceptance. Finally got to play guitar my junior year in high school and…I ended up not going very far with it. The Saturday mass thing was a staple in my diet. Had no idea it hadn’t been existence for centuries. LOL.
I love how you skip questions, lol. Uh huh and just where did #8 go? ;)
Cyn tia ahh
I have some photos…just never got out of my car long enough (until the end of the day)… will post tomorrow.
Damnit. I am realising AGAIN how much I live to ‘impress’ *sigh*
*sigh*
Also, #8 needed a dance with it. Unless there’s a new invisible rule which you found…
Glad you liked the comment. It was a fun moment, but SO TRUE! Thursday sucked more than Tuesday though.
…of course, we know that ‘to (try) to impress’ manifests differently for us… that the underlying motive is part and parcel with our Outsiderness… (well, actually its more our effort to come in from the outside)
Kinda like that moment where we change the calendar from 2014 to 2015 and realise that in spite of the fresh, blank page, actually we brought all the mess with us…
You’re prompt with your post and your comments this week. It is unreasonably cold. Fortunately, I’ve spent the week in bed.
Way too cold… while sometime in bed is not bad… a week? too much! Only a couple of months before it starts to get less cold!
I have not much to add here but…it is WAY too freaking cold. Pretty sad when 30 feels balmy. I got excited that it was still (just barely) light out when we got home at 5:30 PM. I do not enjoy the cold except from indoors. Period. I get really excited when I’m doing my TToT on Fridays…and then I rarely finish until sometime Saturday.
Cold sucks. End of story.
Can you still play the piano? Video or it didn’t happen….
agreed
…lets say, I am not intimidated by it* (you being a scott and all, and one of my favorites, I’m sure I’ll come up with something)
*huge in the world of clarks (and rogers and scotts, except most of the time they do you perceive it as an intimidation. rogers: they don’t like it or don’t care scotts: out of sight, out of mind
Hmmm – I took piano for years as a kid and still own one. I NEVER saw it as the road to popularity. That would have been the guitar. Which I tried to learn. My piano teacher ruined that by making me take classical and not folk and thus taking away any chance that that might help in popularity (Hey! How about a bit of flamenco guitar around the campfire? What, no? Oh….)
Okay – wild tangents aside – nice mix this week. Cold sucks. Yay YouTube – hope you have a great week!
Louise
no, no! wild tangents is our middle name!! (clarks, at any rate… and, as proof of clarklike worldview, there is totally a coherent thread/theme there)
ah yes… I see a lot of myself in the Clark personality.
I also have a good sense of direction but not in the way of north south west or east.I just know which way to go to get where we are going. Hiking driving, whatever(except in Tampa and St. Petersburg I get lost there)
funny too, how totally opposite roger are (from clarks) on this matter of directions, sense of… they are totally without clues, but they will insist that their path is the only correct one… i.e. A to C via E, M U 3, and C
proof?!! you say you want proof of this claim??!! one word: google maps directions! don’t look at the map, read the instructions, roger! lol that way you won’t see how redundant, repetitious and gerrymandered online travel directions are… and you know why, right? online is a function of the internet…the internet is a product of computers….computers are given life and functionality by applications and programs and programs are written by computer programers who are……..(no! sure, go look it up in the Wakefield Doctrine…we’ll wait)….. ok?
lol