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Sentence6 /Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 31, 2016 By

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Look at how light it is! (The photo above was taken at 6:18 pm 03/30/16), how nice is this DST? Warming up for my Six, not to give anything away, but I’m thinking a play on words might be fun! I mean, I enjoy my Sixes but I also admire the straightforward stories (sometimes fun, other times humorous) that the others write. Although naturally inclined to go the Stream of Consciousness route (I have no idea why), a direct narrative story, one that is also engaging, now that’s a worthy goal. (Author’s Note: having just completed the story let me say, ‘yeah, right!’)

Anyway,  we’ll just have to see what shows up, ya know? zoe does this bloghop, this Six Sentence Story, each Thursday and the object is to take the prompt word, this week it’s ‘floor’, and write a story involving the word of the week and using exactly Six Sentences to do so.

 

The world before him slowly reformed, one sense at a time, his mind re-assumed its responsibility for informing him of his current state of what-the-hell-is-going-on. Vision started the process, but clearly was not up to the task, a field of brown to his left and ‘non-brown’, brightening into too-bright, on his right. (For reasons he sensed he would not have the luxury of exploring), taste and smell joined in their part of forming his world, mostly in the smell of dog, (which triggered an inexplicable bloom of hope and simple happiness), and the taste of wool and dust, (mittens, warmth and sweaty enclosures), both linked, yet neither dependent on the present moment. Hearing returned, like the tumbling of stones under a receding ocean’s wave, a sound that conveyed a sense of huge, (despite it’s fading), seemed to contain the promise of a return that inspired childlike awe, made more bearable by the sounds of distant morning birds, like the first raindrops on the windshield of a speeding car. Touch returned last, always the most comprehensive of his senses, (its countless descriptions formed his presence in and of the world), providing only the disquieting intelligence that he was not standing and the world was receding, like the stages of a light brightening from ‘just barely visible’ to ‘all the light in the world’, the quality of ‘approaching’ or ‘receding’ was losing it’s importance.

He sensed change and felt an ember of not-fear growing somewhere in the middle of where he was.

(Floor)

 

 

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Phase 78.2 .4 -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 28, 2016 By

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I had a really good Post written, unfortunately it was (written) in my head only and it was 4:03 am when I read it. I add that second part to let you know how I can claim to know it was a really good post. I’ll try to re-write it here, now.

Most everyone reading this will be familiar with the underlying tenets of the Wakefield Doctrine. Perhaps the most basic and fundamental of these is that we, all of us, live in a reality that is, to certain extent, personal. From this we derive the difference between the Doctrine and the ‘real’ personality typing system, i.e. for us, personality type is a reflection of the reality that we grew up and developed our interpersonal skills in, as opposed to being innate, inherent, instilled or insufferable qualities that came pre-packaged at birth, like a sim card that lets you do certain things but, if you want to do other things, maybe even like other brand phones, then, sure you can, but you have to like, re-program it and that’s not exactly printed on the box the damn phone came in, of course, you could buy an upgrade, but who has the money for that, and you end up, like most of us, hoping that your friends learn something that you can, like, half copy and half learn and then you can improve the phone’s operability and hopefully not fuck it up so much that it doesn’t work.

Did I mention that this Post was originally written at 4:03 am? Well, you know how that time of day can be. In any event, all of you out there are reading this from a personal reality (we call it pre-dominant worldview, or simply worldview), that gave rise to social strategies and ways-of-interacting-with-the-world that we refer to as:

  • clarks (Outsider) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and wonder how we’re possibly going to get by in the world ‘out there’ today, the distinction (of being apart from the world and everything that goes with it, including, god! especially including the people), tells you everything you need to know to be able to identify the clarks in your world.
  • scotts (Predator) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and know where they are and what needs to be done in order to move forward without being restrained or restricted, the value of freedom cannot be assigned because it is without limits and, this lack of limits has as much to do with the others in the scotts‘ life as it does with their own enjoyment of life… act and live, protect and preserve the pack and …did we say, live and act (because life is short) yet?
  • rogers (the Herd Member) ever wonder who buys alarm clocks that have snooze features?  yeah. because for our rogerian brethren, even not getting up on time really should be planned out, at very least assigned a quantity (“Hit Snooze and Get 10 Minutes of Sleep!”) who on earth can do that and not lie awake wondering if 10 minutes is almost up or, maybe there’s a mistake in the programming and now it’s like, and hour too late?  sorry, rhetorical question. In any event, virtually all of the technology that makes our modern lives so comfortable (and scary) are courtsey of our rogerian friends

That’s the deal with the three personality types. The self-development thing? Well that’s simple enough, my goal is to develop my rogerian and scottian aspects (in balance) with my pre-dominant clarklike worldview. (New Readers: the Doctrine maintains that we’re all born with the potential to live and develop in all three worldviews, we always end up in only one, but never lose the capacity for ‘the other two’). The underlying reason is that purpose of this here, personality here, is intended to help us to appreciate how the other people in our lives ‘relate themselves to the world around them’. Using the Doctrine makes this goal much more attainable, and totally lets us know more about the other person than we have any right to know.

 

Hey what the hell, is today that Monday?!!  zoe’s other blog… the carrot?? Heart and Mind Monday?  ok, lets re-arrange the content here and …

I’m happy and pleased to announce that I’ve completed writing the serial story, ‘Blogdominion’! No! seriously, the story is written down (in places other than inside my head) and it has a beginning, a middle and an End. That alone is, for me, a significant accomplishment. I’ll surely be writing more about it in coming days. But I finished writing it and I thank Val and zoe and glenn for being such Constant Readers and providing much appreciated feedback and, I thank Phyllis for doing a nearly-final-does-this-chapter-really-work reading each and every Sunday for that last…. well, the last 23 Sundays plus epilogue.  And I appreciate Denise’s tireless efforts in the edit and re-write and final read-outloud process. sine qua non, binyon.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine ‘”…We gotta have that funk ” as G Clinton would say’

March 26, 2016 By

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(well, because absolutely nothing says decadent excess better than a Faberge egg)

Come join Our Miss Lewis and the gang, as we go all Pasche on your reading selfs. More universal than most of the Big Three (Holidays), Easter is surely a time of reflection and celebration. (That, of course, is out of respect to my co-hostinae who value this Time in Spring). I will not demure for effect, but it is the way of the Doctrine to avoid making fun of people and the world. Unless, of course, we’re talking about:

  • scotts and they’re all about the ribbing and the joking and, if any of the three can ‘take a joke’ it’s our scottian friends. Fair warning, you better be prepared to get more than you receive, if you decide to invite them on that ride!
  • clarks busting a clark is not a bad thing, and, for the record clarks totally get into the ribbing. That being said, you need to make it clear that a) you are joking and 2) that you’re joking because you think of them as your friend and you’re not, like, secretly making fun of them. Do that, and they’re gonna disappear faster than fish in a koi pond on the approach of a 7 year old boy
  • rogers… well, they’re fair game. clarks will often be tempted to try to clue rogers in on the joke ahead of time, but that always backfires. scotts, on the other hand, enjoy making fun of rogers even though the roger has little or no clue what’s going on (at that moment. unfortunately, once they do get a clue, the one to suffer reprisal will be the nearest clark)

Enough of this! One with the List! Ten! Things!

1) That this TToT bloghop is still going strong, now in it’s 9th year!* Lizzi built well and chose well (her co-hostinae)

2) I’m totally happy to find myself surprised that Spring showed up, this week past. Regular Readers are aware that Winter is not my favorite time, or year, or Season or State of Mind and so, to hear myself say, “what? First Day of Spring? really?” with the surprise (implied by the question mark appending my little self-quote), well, who would have thought?

3) End of the ‘Blog Dominion‘ (or, the first installment, at any rate), with the Epilog to be published this week. I will interpret the calls for an Epilog as indications of interest in the story to become a series, rather than a sign that the ending (in Chapter 23) as being inconclusive or uncertain.

4) Thanks (again) to Kristi and Dyanne for encouragement to make ‘Almira’ the next project in my ‘Why not commit to writing a Chapter per week of a story that you are discovering as you write each Chapter’. This being the second Installment in my Illustration and Guide to using the Wakefield Doctrine as an aid to self-improvement, (Titled:  ‘Making Life More UnComfortable: ‘Hurry, You’re Running Out of Time” )

5) ‘Almira‘ ( subtitle: ‘there’s always more to the story’) will begin a week from tomorrow (or the following Monday morning) and I’l post it to jukepop.

6) Six Sentence Story (not only good practice, but enjoyable reading, if you haven’t tried it yet, you totally need to go there this week coming and ask zoe if you can join the ‘fun’)

7) Una and Phyllis: both good.

8) Work was good this week, as I had an opportunity to catch myself making my job more difficult than it need be. (This is, of course, of interest pretty much only to clarks), but there came a couple of occasions when the idea that ‘I’m responsible for how I feel’ was very real and I made a choice and things worked out better than they might have. Nothing earth-shaking in the grand scheme of things, but I saw the difference, I knew for a fact, (at that moment), that I did have a choice, which (at that same moment) altered my personal reality for just a moment.) As Tony Montana said to Frank Lopez, “It was fun”

9) Hey, I know it’s Easter Saturday, but the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Live (call-in) will be on the line tonight between 8:00 and 8:45 pm EDST  call us! (phone number on the homepage of this here blog here)

10) SR 1.3   (and don’t even think about what the Seven Guard Virgins have planned for tonight! No, serially! Ask zoe!  now, I’m not one to ‘talk out of school’, but those Beings totally know how to ring in the Spring (if you know what I mean)…. New Readers? the Seven Guard Virgins (awareness of this aspect of the TToT is courtesy of Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia) provide the following for everyone here at ‘Ten Things’, they (in part, not limited to):  stand guard, hold court, order pizza, turn off the headlights on dark country roads, start the party, end the party, hold out, come across and generally make this the best bloghop in the whole damn ‘sphere!  Now, this might make little or no sense, but it’s all there in the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)….ask anyone! And have the happiest Easter that you can.

why, no! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with sticking a ‘get-stuck-in-your-head-all-day’ music video… you don’t have to listen (but, you’d be a fool not to).

 

 

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6:35am Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 24, 2016 By

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The world-prompt, this week is:  duck

That’s what I get for deviating from the tried and true approach! The post, at least so far, is not the engaging, ‘what-is-our-writer-up-to-this-week’ that I hope to achieve, while ‘warming up’. (One might wonder who is being warmed up, in this pre-Six Sentence Story interludes… the writer or the Reader?)

For this week, t’s surely not me, but then, it’s early (Full Disclosure: it’s no longer early Wednesday morning. It is, 3:21 in the afternoon. Still early by Six Sentence standards, but way closer to what I normally do.)

All this warm-up and hinting to Six Sentence Stories, is, of course, my weekly effort at zoe’s very challenging and satisfying bloghop, the Six Sentence Story. (Write a story of no more than, nor no less than 6 sentences utilizing the week’s prompt).

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Were you and I to walk the suburban neighborhood streets of the 1950s on a Sunday evening, we would see, leaking through window curtains (and those on-end triangular glass inserts in many a front door), a grayish-blue glow, as much the specialized lighting as found in most places of worship down through the ages, as Ed Sullivan, held countless American families in thrall at 8:00 Eastern Standard Time. On one particular Sunday night, in the mid-to-late 1950s, no longer satisfied with his Piper-like control of the minds and thoughts of countless people, from the very old to the too, too young, he decided to reach further into the lives of his audience.

Rather than settle for causing countless Monday-morning-people to hum the songs of the musical acts he presented or, attempt to re-tell co-workers the jokes of the comedians, Ed decided to invade the dreams of the young members of his audience, (let’s not kid ourselves, be it a Church with regal ceremony established over a thousand years of attendance or the wild abandon of spur-of-the-cultural-moment sect imploring divine intercession),  it’s always the young that people like Ed crave.

The 1950s, though there were no computers, (other than ridiculous, elephantine machines that communicated by ‘punch cards’, as if for a world of the blind, having only the language of Braille to share information and lives), had something every bit as compelling as the ‘World of Warcraft’, or even, the Facebook, it had the Cold War. The Cold War existed, (for all intents and emotional purposes), in the minds of the people, (especially the young), and we were all instructed how the game, (World War Three ‘Nuclear Armageddon!’) was to be played, and we all, (especially the young), played it out in our minds, our dreams and our hopes for life.

On this memorable Sunday night, Ed Sullivan, a well-respective and admired procurer of wholesome family entertainment, (not quite the foreshadow of the modern day pimp, resplendent in fashion, powerful among the powerless, but close), determined to make sure we were all in the game, immediately after a visit from Topo Gigo (‘the little Italian mouse‘), but before some dinner plate-spinning guy with a pencil mustache, Ed Sullivan presented a Civil Defense animated film, ‘Duck and Cover’ and many in his audience that night (especially the young), had nightmares for well into the early 60s.

 

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 22, 2016 By

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A short update Post.

The Final Chapter (Chapter 23) in Blogdhominion is out and ready to be read. We haven’t heard the last of this ‘Tale of Computer Life and the Search for Peace and Self-Fulfillment!’ (Working now  to compile and print a full manuscript version of the Adventures of Sister Margaret and Them. I’ll be sending a copy to some friends who have volunteered to do a beta-Reading on the story in the next two weeks. If you’d like to participate, let me know, I think it would be fun to get feedback from anyone interested in giving it.

Soon to be Appearing on Jukepop and wordpress: ‘Almira’  this will be the Serial story of one, Almira Gulch, a significant (one might even say, pivotal) character in the story, ‘The Wizard of Oz’. We all, (or those of us who have watched the 1939 MGM motion picture, which, I would hazard to say is pretty much everyone over the age of 39), know how we feel about this woman. ‘Almira’ will be the story of what brought this woman and this girl, (and that little dog), together on a very fateful day in Kansas.

The basis for the idea comes from my most recent contributions to zoe’s Six Sentence Story and a (very creative) suggestion from Kristi and a (very helpful) encouragement from Dyanne. Read the story that is the starting point of what is to follow.

For those who followed along on Blogdominion, this story will unfold Chapter by Chapter. I have no idea, as of this writing, how this will come out. I do know a few things, however,

  1. Almira Gulch was her married name
  2. Almira was born in Lawrence MA, in 1893
  3. and, probably most importantly, she did not die in the F7 tornado that wiped out the small farming town of Circe KA on that fateful day

As to the ‘why?’ of all this industry? One word: ‘the-Wakefield-Doctrine-as-an-efficacious-tool-the-service-of-self-developing oneself,’ Live Demonstration….

And, of course, we’ll continue with our Six Sentence Stories on Thursdays and TToT on the weekend.

Gotta run, I’ve been late posting for the Gravity Challenge 2 mornings in a row!

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