Month: February 2016 | the Wakefield Doctrine

‘Six Sentence, Six Sentence, Six Sentence Story’ the Wakefield Doctrine- “ …and the moon is in the seventh house“*

February 18, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

*apparently** that line is, in fact, a lyric from ‘the Age of Aquarius’ from the musical ‘Hair!’

** ‘apparently’ because I have a tendency to write first and understand second, particularly on a Wednesday evening, when I’m in Six Sentence Story Warm-up mode.

Back now, bereft of parentheticals and astrixeseses…. so, zoe has this blog hop, Six Sentence Story every Thursday and the object is to write a story employing the word prompt provided and keep it to 6 sentences. (oh man! I’ve been known in the past as having a touch of arithlexia, this week’s Story really challenges the counting system… whole lines, in quotes I am not counting as individual sentences, unless Al stuck a period in them, which happens once….I think)

This week our prompt is ‘Fray’

“Half a league, half a league, half a league onward” he read, the forest outside his window beginning to glow grayly with the approach of Dawn.

“Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them” the poet continued, bestowing hideous honor on the special variety of mass murderer that society produces on a secret timetable, marked by statues in city parks and the dreams of young boys inoculated with malignant dreams of purpose.

“Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell. They that had fought so well“, like the drunken patron in lobby of the whorehouse, describing acts of passion as if to repeat them loudly (enough) would reverse the achingly slow destruction of the good, inherent in life of the not-yet-old girl.

“Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred!”

“I know how this ends, it’s bravado and all, one more cup of coffee and into the fray, into the valley of Commerce rode the….” laughing at himself, he hit ‘Publish’.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- insights and intuitions

February 16, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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You know what it’s like, having the Wakefield Doctrine as an Alternate perspective on life and the people around us? It’s fun, that’s what it’s like! I had an ‘old school Post writing moment’ Sunday afternoon that was so much fun, because it took me back to the early days of writing this blog. Which is to say, you’re sitting there, minding your own business, maybe watching TV and someone says something or does something that makes the lightbulb go on, over your head. No, I’m serious, that’s very, very close to the experience. Maybe not, get-out-of-the-bathtub-and-run-outside-without-clothes-on level of excitement, but I did stop, (reading or watching TV or whatever I was doing), and walked directly to my computer to write the first draft of this Post.

(A little contexting here, for our newer Readers), the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated on the notion that we all live our lives, to a certain extent, in a reality that is characterized as being that of: a) the Outsider (clarks), b) the Predator (scotts) or c) the Herd Member (rogers) and that it’s the style of our coping strategies and social skills, (to contend with these three very different realities), that gives rise to what others call ‘personality type’.
A big part of the process of learning to use the Wakefield Doctrine as an effective tool for understanding the people in our lives, involves discovering what the world looks like to people living in (one of ) these three realities, (i.e. worldview). There is considerable information available here that will help you identify the behavior that’s characteristic of clarks, scotts and rogers.
You know, the girl wearing the cutest little dress with an exquisite string of pearls…and a plaid shirt and Doc Martens…. or the guy on the bicycle with 3 water bottles, streamlined helmet and enough logos on his head-to-toe spandex to almost not make you think of Pat Benatar. Those characteristics. The very cool thing is that it works. You will find that rogers, given a garage workshop and a pegboard, will decide that it makes the most sense to outline the tools before he hangs them on the pegboard… well, because…

But that’s not what this Post is about. This Post is about the gifts of insight, the eureka moments enjoyed when new insight and understanding makes itself available. Some things are ….too far inside a worldview to be accessible to those of us from one of the other two realities. Then it’s totally critical that we remain alert! The best example, which is a little too long a story for this post, was the insight that lead to the recognition of ‘referential authority‘ as being a feature of the rogerian worldview, and only the rogerian worldview.

So, back to our story. Phyllis got a call on her phone, didn’t answer, there was no message and, more importantly, it was not a telephone number she recognized. She googled the number, it showed an address in a nearby city, but not one that was home to anyone she knew. Fine. End of story. Wrong number.
I went back to my book/TV show. I looked up a short time later and Phyllis was still trying to figure out who made the call and I realized right there, ‘rogers do not believe in wrong numbers‘ (hint: in the worldview of our Herd Member friends, the universe is quantifiable and knowable…and definable. ‘there is always a reason for ___ (fill in the blank when you have a couple of hours).

Anyway. As soon as that lightbulb went on over my head I was headed to the Wakefield Doctrine to add one more characteristic of the rogerian worldview to our collective understanding. …well, because I’m a clark!! and there is no higher value than to know things! of course.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- Saturday

February 13, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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1) Big shout-out to scientists and their recent discovery of Gravity Waves. Nice job guys, only took 100 years and 5.2 billion dollars. All ya had to go was ask a Graviteer, ‘hey! Graviteer! is gravity composed of waves, or what?’ and the Graviteers would be, all like, ‘Clean your room and, as a reward, I’ll tell you‘. (Christine) …’what a good question! what a smart scientist you are, now, lets start with how you frame your question.’ (Val), …’well, there are many ways that the beauty of world that God created is expressed, I really enjoy talking to you about that.’ (Kristi), ‘I knew you’d ask that question! You’re doing a great job with your ‘astrophysics experiment’ (Lisa) ‘Well, sure there are, wait, let me get a picture, what a good scientist you are!’ (Sarah), “Hey! you’re talking to me? Well, of course there are Gravity Waves! I know, ’cause I’m a Graviteer, see what it says on the Tee Shirt? (Joy)

2) (man! at this rate, this is gonna be a 3k oT! sure glad that my typing speed has increased!…. wait! what did I just say? ….cha-ching!)

3) vidchats … cause they’re all different each and every week! Last night’s was no exception (whoa! watch it! big-assed ontological pothole there… shhh, don’t think) OK we’re past that danger…for now. Last night Sarah and Kerry and Denise and Kristi–Liz (actually, it was more, Liz-Kristi because of the camera angels, we had a perfect half (longitudinally divided) Lizzi and Kristi. and then, a little later Lisa joined us. It was fun.

4) ‘Blogdominion’ now has a Chapter 17 (which had a later-than-usual release date of Wednesday)… not to worry, I’ll be back on track for Chapter 18 this weekend where we, “drop in on the Willoughby’s where Ed and Diane have a rare evening (at least the first half) alone at home and they talk… well, to be technically non-lying, Diane seeks to understand things that are affecting her life and the life of her family and Ed replies to each question in whatever manner is best… for Ed. (I think there’s something up at the Fearing’s so don’t be surprised if we pay Tom and Cheri a visit) and, of course, Unit 17 as Unit 17!” (sorry old cultural reference). Hey! do me a favor go and read Chapter 17 at jukepop.com and vote the hell out of it. There’s a rating system (aka competition, ala high school popularity contests) and I really need your support. So read Vote up comment, whatever.
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5) wood-stoves. we have a wood stove and Phyllis and I’ve developed a curious, (or not so curious, if you’re in any way familiar with the Wakefield Doctrine)protocol …. I’m really good at getting the fire started, without filling the house with smoke and Phyllis builds and maintains a fire that is remarkably efficient in terms of heating the house…. yeah, I know.

6) Una: we went for a walk last night:

7) the Wakefield Doctrine

8) hey! new TToTeers!! you’ve heard the term Item of Hypogratitude, right? That’s (yet another) feature to the-bloghop-that-Lizzi-built, that’s really cool and you won’t see on a gratitude bloghop anywhere else! I had an experience this week that provides an excellent example of what we refer to as an Item of Hypogratitude (and thereby valid in making up your 10 Items): so this week I’m out doing my real estate thing, and have to check on a couple of houses in the snow and ice and such. I get home for lunch, (and to feed Una), and discover my glasses are not in my pocket, (reading glasses, don’t need them except to see the thing I want to read). damn! (nope, this is not the hypograt….wait for it), so I look everywhere. Nothing. I retraced my steps throughout the day, (two stops: the post office and one house where no one was home). still nothing. I went to the drugstore and bought replacements (which weren’t really replacements, because what I lost were prescription reading glasses!) totally bummed out. I Kübler-Ross’d myself to acceptance and went on with life. YEsterday morning, I had reason to go back to the house I visited on the day of my loss and, as I walked up the walk, what do I see? in the snow! my glasses!! (why, no! how could this be hypogratitude? remember the prefix hypo- means deficient, less than normal…nada) I was like, wow! it’s a miracle! I reached down to pick them up only to find that they were frozen into the ice, wooly mammoth-style. So, I kicked the snow (why, yes, I do hail from the Land of Y Chromia, why do you ask?) and click! 1 pair of glasses transformed into a matching pair of monocles….. that’s an Item of Hypogratitude

9) Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)…. read all about

10) SR 1.3 (the first and still the best!)

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‘Pha ri dae!’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- vidchats and serials, rogerian expressions and responsibility

February 12, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Quick(ish) Post today. oh! wait! gotta go check on Kristi’s Finish the Sentence Friday! hold on! ( oh! shit! another one of her patented and seductively devious, ‘trick-you-into-writing-something-that-reveals-more-about-you-than-you-think’ prompts! damn! ) ok well this Post ain’t getting any shorter, so I best get to it…

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Vidchat tonight… lets make it 7:30 pm EST (will send out invites the usual way)

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Finish The Sentence Friday (courtesy of Kristi van Helsing and April May Indeed) who, in today’s intriguing word prompt ask that we reflect* upon a most human of human impulses, i.e. to see ourselfs (perhaps as others see us, or maybe as we would hope they do, or are determined that they must). One might argue that the Fall from Grace of Man (and Eve) was brought about, not through the agency of fruit, as it was the use/misuse of this most personal of all tools, the mirror. So, lets complete the sentence:

‘When I look in the mirror,’

I can see the world.

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Chapter 17 of ‘Blogdominion is out! Read it Here ( …Sister Margaret Ryan and Maribeth find that complimenting each other’s strengths necessarily emphasizes their (individual) weaknesses and leads to conflict. Unit 17 continues to become….more)

and. finally, a little insight to our multifaceted friends, the roger(s)

rogerian expression:

A rogerian expression is an idiosyncratic statement made only by a roger, is incorrect but nonetheless very powerful. A rogerian expression is not simply an incorrect use of words, rather it is a deliberate use of the wrong words that results in a statement that denies the listener the option to ignore it.. You know them when you hear them. There is a moment of disbelief, then you laugh and shake your head in admiration for the sentence that was made. Examples:

looking at his paycheck, a roger was heard to say: ‘oh man! Look at how much they deducted for aggravated security’
talking about a new DVD release for a movie: ‘no, I am going to wait until they release the un-abashed edition’
about to talk to a client: ‘I know I have to give them the bad news with the good news, I just won’t baby-coat it’
writing in a blog about how egotistical certain real estate agents tend to be, an unknown roger wrote: ‘ I have to say that as a professional class, most agents are much too self-absorbent…”

* ha ha… and, yes quite deliberate and without the slightest shame

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 11, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

So here it is, Wednesday evening. Plowing word-furrows on the blank and sterile page of a draft post, hoping that this preparation of the page within which I need to raise some words to grow into thoughts and, maybe even, ideas. That’d be delightful. But for now, I’ll just type in the totally-unsupportable notion that even bad, no… random words on a page can become the birthing place of Six Sentence Story, which as we all know, is zoe’s stern, but encouraging gift to those of us who not only enjoy writing, but enjoy the practice of this art.

This week’s prompt is ‘Draw’

He believed that he knew what she wanted of him. Since their transition from classmates to class-couple, he’d been working furiously on improving his fluency in the secret language of those-who-would-be-in-love. Figure Drawing 101, where they met and became, ‘acquaintances-with-an-option-on-caring’, was where, every Thursday evening (6:30 to 10:00 pm) they conducted their initial negotiations and practiced the art. He was young and inexperienced in the affairs of the heart; she was young.

In both classroom instruction and relationships, there comes a time for testing competency, however, not all testing prohibits cooperation.

As he clumsily smeared paint on the canvas, she said, ‘Do I have to draw you a picture?’