Month: February 2016 | the Wakefield Doctrine

‘Monday the unlikely’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…of Motivation and videos, serials and insights’

February 29, 2016 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

So a number of topics to cover:

friend of the Doctrine, zoe has a new bloghop that we are participating in, over at the Carrot… (this will be linked over there, so be on your best behavior! I don’t want a repeat of what happened last time we went visiting as a Guest Post writer! I still haven’t heard back from the blogger who asked us!)
running a little late on Chapter 20 (will still write a little teaser)
an old video, like the secret moon rocks sample, still waiting to go viral
Cynthia and Denise and I had a most excellent and insightfulizing discussion during Saturday’s Call-in…. about why clarks are so easily bored. We’ll trial-balloon a few thoughts today.

Carrot! (oh shit! I just jumped over there and…and she’s got people sending in genuinely interesting things, information and samples of, like, talented people working on things paintings and playing musical instruments, making really attractive jewelry. damn! gotta just tough it out)

Hey! I used to do travel videos! Well, not so much travel videos as videos of places that I visited when on business trips… not so much videos as selfies (before they were all the rage and total expected)…. here’s one I found in an old Post!

here you go zoe!

Item 2: Chapter 20…. a little late this week. Plan to publish tonight, still need a little polish and a rogerian review (courtesy of Phyllis). Chapter 20 accounts for what happen after Chapter 19…. no, wait, that did come out right, of course, it deals with Chapter 19! What I’m saying is that, you know how Chapter 19 ended? well, it now seems that Sister Margaret did not make the safest decision, one might even say that her impulsive act has set off a chain of events that no one could have anticipated… yeah, I know! I like Sister Margaret too! Watch for the Chapter later tonight, early tomorrow morning.

Item 3: well, that’s kinda already covered in Item 1

Item 4: so we were talking about the Doctrine and someone, I think it was Cynthia said, ‘I notice that I always end up getting bored, no matter how interesting or challenging or difficult a project might be at the beginning. You don’t suppose the Doctrine addresses that, do you?’ As a matter of fact, the Wakefield Doctrine does! The Wakefield Doctrine can say that it addresses virtually everything in life, because it’s concerned with relationships, not merely a list of activities, attributes, tendencies or inclinations. The Doctrine does not limit itself to providing a comprehensive list of things that hopefully match what a person ascribes to their own personality types. No, it does not. What the Wakefield Doctrine does, is direct our attention to the way, ‘we relate ourselves to the world around us‘. (Note the exact wordation. I didn’t mean to say, ‘we relate to the world around us‘, there is a huge difference in the two statements). So that’s why I think we can work with the topic that our accomplished friend has raised…. in the next Post! lol (sorry, gots to finish Chapter 20)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 27, 2016 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is a regular, weekly feature at the Wakefield Doctrine, in part because I am one of the host(s) (technically a hostus, being the sole representative from the Y Chromia (motto: “it’s a land of loud, fun and relatively short lived passions! Hey!!”) in distinction to my esteemed co-hostinae (Sarah, Michelle, Kristi, Christine, Kristi, Lisa, Dyanne and zoe)… our Miss Lewis, being Founder and Head Mistress.

…and so I write a TToT Post each week, in an attempt to convey those aspects of my life that engender a sense, (and subsequent feeling), of gratitude. I do this because I am hostus and because I enjoy it and because I believe it is beneficial, both to me for the writing and for you the Reader in the reading. Pretty simple, isn’t it?

I need to hurry my list today. I’m increasingly of the belief that we are all gifted with a certain amount, potential, quantity of whatever you choose to call ‘creativity’. It’s not a pleasant concept, unless you do a ‘double back’ (‘hey! turn that frown upside down!) and say that you’re glad to not have none of it. I suspect that I might do well to designate this as a (potential) item of hypo-gratitude. It’s just that I need to finish rough-drafting Chapter 20 and I’m only just sitting down to write this… does anyone else have an opinion on the matter of ‘creativity: endless supply or spend it wisely?’
Speaking of Chapter 20. Blogdominion’s next installment is due to ‘hit newsstands by weekend’s ending’ watch your local listings! (In Chapter 20, things take a turn sinister as the Vantablack limousine pulls up to the front of Hazel Eddington’s house (actually it happens in Chapter 19). Inside the long, dark car was trouble…. for everyone except the Omni Corp. Maribeth Hartley is not having that much better a day, as she finds herself in the shower with her clothes on, again… we do, however get to visit with Orel and Theresa Rees, (who, alert Readers will recall did a guest appearance in Six Sentence Story this week), who are very much a welcome breath of fresh air, after the time in Chicago, in the company of Anya Claieaux… about whom some have whispered, ‘when she walks into a room it somehow becomes 1:30 am and you feel that, somehow, you might have a shot‘ and Ed Willoughby is feeling quite disappointed in how his wife and family are failing to rally around him in the current crisis and decides to work late at the office, not such a good idea.
speaking of Six Sentence Story, you really should try it! Fun and challenging… come on! what’s not to like? zoe is a gracious and supportive host of this fine exercise in creative writing
Speaking of creative writing, zoe (in the guise of Ivy) has this excellent blog Carrot, she mentioned on the phone last night that there was an interesting ‘hop that she is doing on Mondays…where even non-blog writers can participate and send in things…. sounds like fun your should try it!
Speaking of jokes! It’s a given that clarks are not good at telling jokes (scotts are good at telling jokes…. you know why, really think about it, if you still are not sure, write a Comment, will be happy to enlighten you). which is not to say that clark are not funny… they totally can be, but jokes? not really. So, being a clark (with a secondary scottian aspect) let me tell a joke. Well, know that I think about it, it’s not really a joke…per se, more of a riddle… but you’ll laugh at the end! no, really and because we’re online, you won’t be too self conscious to come up here to the front…. hey everyone !! lets get Dyanne to help us out!! come one up, Dyanne!! OK! I’m going to ask you three question that I want you to answer and then, I’ll ask you a question but I’ll tell you the answer you have in your mind without having to be told…. no! come back! Quick Answers now: What’s 3 + 4? …. ok, What’s 7+2…. alright! and 4 + 5? Now…. name a vegetable!! (Click here and the Answer will be in the Title line of the Post!)
Yep! that’s where you were (when you clicked out to find out what Dyanne was thinking in Item 5 that’s the Gravity Challenge…. it’s a daily (except for Sunday) effort that we participate in that is fun and healthy and such…. if you want to change something about your weight (or you like to take photos of scales) you should join, Christine, Val, Lisa Kristi, Sarah and… Joy! it’s fun
Speaking of fun… you know how stressful reality can be these days and how, even though you know for a fact, that building a fort in the living room would be relaxing, you just can’t because it wouldn’t be ‘adult’ and ‘mature’, right? Well, we have the solution! Like-since-forever-Friend-of-the-Doctrine Cynthia has this blog…. Contemplative Coloring! go there try it!
Una and Phyllis…. well, Una for this item because Phyllis hardly ever sticks her face out the window of my car as we drive along. WARNING! don’t tell Christine about the following photos, well, not the second photo, anyway…. I’ve said too much already!
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February 25, 2016 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

specifically (or contemporaneously), I’m in the warm-up phase of our weekly attempt to tell a story using only Six Sentences. Every Thursday zoe charges us all with this task and provides the ‘prompt word’. Although how prompted I am at the moment, (5:39 pm Wednesday at my office), is open to interpretation. But, since you’re here…. would you like to see some etchings?

ah! memories of the ambitious dreams of youth! who doesn’t remember those days…. (I’m thinking mid-teens to 20’s aka ‘adolescence to ‘enough already, grow up!’) It is, at the moment, an archetypical setting, the beginnings of a dark and stormy night. For what it’s worth, night has never really held any particular terror for me…. 3 to 4 am, now that’s another matter, entirely. There is no time of the day more inimical to the sane and normal human than 3:00 am.

Lets see what the prompt is for this Thursday! cleave.

…cleave.

that’s just great, well, my track record is well established, normal everyday words like, bread and change those words come back, on a Thursday morning, hung with the strange psycho-socio-geo-logical detritus, like seaweed on a half-eaten cod fish, lying in the frozen sand of February beach, I can just imagine what kind of broken fingernail scratches will be the result of a word like cleave! Non-Spoiler Alert!!!! I tried, believe me when I say this, I tried to find a handhold. an open window in the cultural reference edifice that would let me include ‘Leave it to Beaver’… but, no, nothin! damn!

“You know I love you, Orel,” for Theresa Carloni, this moment represented the essence of the love/hate relationship that God seemed to secretly maintain for his most beloved of creations, the human race. That two people are the elemental unit upon which families, groups, religions, cultures, societies and, ultimately human civilization is built, is difficult to contest, that the divisions among these higher associations are emotionally expressed by their constituency is equally without doubt.

‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.’ is what I’ve been taught since before I learned to think,” for Orel Rees, the gulf that existed between his way of life and that of the girl he loved, was a challenge to understand, rather than an admonition to respect and suffer, with the dubious honor of thoughtless obedience.

“I’m a girl from a large Italian family, which means I’m a Catholic girl, and our Church is the true Church,” Theresa refused to believe that God was so small as to make permanent, the distinctions that separated one religion from another.

‘Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh’, is how I was taught a family is formed,” Orel Rees, an engineer by training and disposition, smiled and saw a connection.

Hey! our parents? lets see them argue with, “…whatever God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the day (of the workweek) of maximum, unsubstantiated optimism, (!!! go!! clarks!)

February 23, 2016 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

no, seriously! Today’s subtitle is not nearly as cynical, sardonic or sarcastic as it may sound on first read. It’s a statement of fact for clarks, a funny thing for scotts and flashing of emotional content for rogers. But, as they say in one of the top three funniest movies of all time, ‘but that’s not important right now’*

What is important is that I continue to provide insights, suggestions, advice and information to help anyone interested in better understanding the people in their lives, to appreciate what the Wakefield Doctrine has to offer.

The Wakefield Doctrine offers:

an additional perspective on the world around us, which can be a good thing, provided you’re a person who believes that there is more than one way to see the world
speaking of ‘more than one way to see the world’, isn’t the verb in that very common observation begging for a closer look? damn straight it does!
we’ll get to that as soon as I complete this here bullet list here; according to the Doctrine, we have three ‘ways’ (there it is again!!) to experience the world: as an Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) and a Herd Member(roger) and by ‘experience‘ we mean ‘personal reality’ and by ‘personal reality’ we mean, the world actually is quantifiable (provided you’re a roger), full of prey and larger predators (if you’re a scott) and distant and apart from, a country for which you lost your citizenship (if you woke up this morning, a clark)

ok! any questions, write a comment.

that business about ‘more than one way to see the world’? online dictionary:

way (noun)
1) a method, style, or manner of doing something
2) a road, track, path, or street for traveling along

how convenient is that?! three examples of noun (and) adverbial form(s) of the word! I’ll leave you, the Reader, to decide which (definition) corresponds to which worldview, (because you know that they will!)

On to other Tuesday Business.

Hey! Friend of the Doctrine zoe is working on this very excellent site, (the) ‘Carrot‘ and, I believe she has something going on Monday’s (or will have going on, on Mondays), so what say you jump over there…. click here and check it out. If you do, I’ll tell you about the latest in ‘Blogdominion’ and, maybe even tell you about the upcoming Chapter 20!! ‘gwan with ye now!’

Blogdominion Chapter 19. yeah, it does end with a bit of an old-school cliff hanger! what can I say? Sister Margaret! that young lady has a way of finding the road-less-traveled, whether she likes it or not! So… Chapter 20? I believe we’re all in for some surprises. No, really! I’m including myself in that promise! (For those just joining us, I’ll say, GO READ the Story! start with the Prologue and then up to Chapter 19. Seriously, it’s a fun adventure but, like most fun stories, it’s as much about the people in it as it is about what happens. My approach to writing Blogdominion is, what I believe, they refer to as, ‘seat of the pants’ style (of writing). Want to know how serious I am about this approach I am? I don’t know, as of this writing (7:24 am Tuesday the 23rd), how Chapter 20 ends!

So, go! read the story and join us on the adventure!

Airplane!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- the middle of the stupidest month of the year.

February 20, 2016 By clarkscottroger

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

10 Things (aka Items), representing, signifying or otherwise constituting a state, an act, a job, a favorite position, a sailboat, a special child, a special place, many people at once, no one but ourselves, a quiet time, a sad time, a time to hide and a place where no one but those good to us know about… you know, life. That’s sort of what the TToT is all about. Generating, encouraging, reinforcing, eliciting, contradicting (hypo-gratitude), and sowing the seeds of change, that’s kind of what many think the attitude of gratitude has the potential for creating or otherwise helping within our own individual lives.

That being said, while the consensus is: focus on 10 things that made you feel grateful and write them in a Post, this particular gratitude-centric bloghop, being founded by a clark of the finest water, not only leaves the form and manner of execution to us as individuals, she kinda goes out of her way to let everyone know that they are welcome here, in TToT-ville. So come on down!

given that I got all Edmond Hoyle on y’all in the intro, best start with one of the main things that I’m grateful for here at this here bloghop here, the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which very simply states that, provided the writer is of good intent, and can cite a plausible Rule (chapter and verse, rigorously cited, please), there is total carte blanche as to how you may present your Items
Una… Chodsky pes, extraordinaire she enjoys our Friday walks, now that the day isn’t the winter-time shortened to 20 minutes on a cloudy day… so we went cow-baiting yesterday afternoon:
Phyllis a most critical element in the writing of the wonderful online series, ‘Blogdominion’ (This is a grat item of multiple inference: that there is a serial novel is an item on this list, on it’s own merits. That Phyllis is willing to do one of the final pre-publishing readings is very appreciated, in that, as a roger, she provides an insight into how the general public might respond to what I’ve written. (rogers, of course, being ‘the general public’, bless their hyper-emotive hearts)
jukepop.com, a site for those who would write online. One of the challenges of writing on-line is arranging Posts ‘in order’, so that a new visitor can easily read it in it’s intended order, like picking up a book. The site allows easy access to the Chapters comprising the Serial Story, and also allows for comments and votes for (hint hint), because as we all know, High School is the eternal state of reality. So, if you haven’t read it yet, I’ll provide the direct link to the Prologue and you be the judge: ‘Blogdominion‘
Well, this certainly has been an orderly TToT! Makes think I need to do something, god knows that as much as clarks yearn to be accepted, we find (that) being just one of the crowd, a bit…. limiting, maybe a touch boring?
Wakefield Doctrine the BoyScout-GirlScout Handbook/National Scholastic/Chilton Repair Manuel/Cliff Notes for better understanding the people in our lives around us! Find your way to understanding the Doctrine sufficiently to allow the clarks, scotts and rogers to step out of the over-crowded cast of characters in our lives and you will have a certain advantage, i.e. you will know the other person better than they know themselves! And you will be amused, because, and I’m going out on a limb here, most of us who write blog are total people watchers.
geography! my local geography which is bordering the ocean. There was ‘some weather’, as we say in these parts, this week past and so I made the side trip down to the shore to look at the waves….
SR 1.3 (“Secret Rule 1.3 in part and in whole, allows, that when a list is completed, the fact of the completion of said list is a valid Item [of Thankful] and therefore may be substituted in the place of [a]nother item, despite and even though, there is an element of causality-looping that you couldn’t push with a bulldozer