Month: April 2016 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- (1/3 Finish the Sentence Friday, 1/3 Almira and 1/2 Doctrine…something for everone!)

April 8, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

“…we verbose few, we Band of Bloggers!!”

2 things:

Chapter 2 of ‘Almira‘ will be coming out this weekend. Due to technical difficulties on the site where I wrote the Serial: ‘Blogdominion’, I’ve not yet been able to post Chapters of Almira on that site. I have a wordpress site (click here to go there) for the story. If anything, I appreciate the Readers of Blogdominion, (and now), Almira. Last weekend, I sent links to Chapter 1 to those of you who followed Blogdominion. Of course, anyone can sign up at the blog and have new posts sent to them as they are published. Or, if you’d prefer a more…personal touch, write a comment and I’ll send you the link.
the Wakefield Doctrine is a very useful perspective on life, self and ‘reality’ for those of us out to self-improve ourselfs. And it’s fun! It’s been proven that, with the studious, industrious, assiduous, meticulous and totally determined application of the principles contained and inherent in out little personality theory, you can change things about yourself that have resisted change, you can improve things about yourself, (provided you feel the need, desire and hope to) that you have only dreamt of and you don’t have to do anything more than add a single, additional, perspective to how you see and interact and respond to the world today. No, really! It’s that much fun, that simple and way cooler than I can present here, on these pages. Give it a try!
1. Finish the Sentence Friday… Friend of the Doctrine Kristi’s bloghop totally grabbed my head this week with the pre-complete sentence:

“Sometimes, I wonder about my writing. I keep on and on because…” (Feel free to adapt the sentence to) “I write because…” (or) “I wonder why I write…

I surely would not be here, had I not decided to write a blog. While a fairly self-effacing statement*, I mean it to imply, that here, today, writing this Post is part and parcel with the explanation/illustration/demonstration of why I write. To paraphrase a favorite dead person famous statement, ‘I blog therefore I am‘

the previous written Thursday evening, the following written Friday (and therefore, technically the actual Finish to the Sentence), morning:

So, now that I’ve had some time to think about the prompt, my response takes a slightly different form**, form not content. The simplest ‘finish’ to this Friday Sentence would be “…because that is where my heart was hiding”.

Thanks virtual and/or imaginary people and friends!

* a rogerian expression of my own construct, surely not as potent as one from a roger, it’s fun. To read all about rogerian expressions, go to rogers

** different from my Reply to Kristi’s Post…last night…late last night (lol…)

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‘A Story in Six Sentences’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the rest of life should be as simple at that…’

April 7, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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You know someone’s having a stressful day, when the prospect of creating one of zoe’s weekly Six Sentence Story(s) is anticipated as an improvement on the day. (lol… no! I don’t hate Six Sentence Stories! I loves the Six Sentence Stories, I just find them remarkably challenging. Fortunately for me, I find them very rewarding, easily worth the effort, pretty much every time I’ve put electrons to phosphorus*, but that’s not important now.) Now is the time of the week that I create the Thursday Post. in preparation for Six Sentence time. I’ll ramble on, (as I have been), go find the prompt word and maybe type it in, but will not be writing the actual Six until tomorrow morning, (this being written at 5 or so, Wednesday afternoon.)

Wait, I’ll go get the prompt…hold on….

(…damn! it’s not ‘LCD’) the prompt is ‘Favor’ (there goes, “...as Capt Steve Strongstar fought for control of the careening spaceship while still in the passionate embrace of Stella Fulsome….“)

‘Audaces fortuna iuvat‘ (Fortune favors the Bold)

“Give it here!” his newly discovered baritone voice almost sounded convincing, the slightest hint of childhood on the penultimate syllable, however, undid all the voice of command he’d hoped to convey.

“Make me,” her contralto, unintentionally mocking his efforts to assert dominance, both being too newly conscripted in opposing armies of the oldest of all battles, neither noticed the secondary/effect rise from their struggle.

Even as inexperienced as she was, she sensed that some conflicts are meant to be lost, the battle not being synonymous with the war, and looked for a second strategy. Even as inexperienced as he was, he sensed that conflict was inevitable and losing can never be preferable to victory.

“Please?”

“Well, since you’re being reasonable, ok!”

‘Ipsa quidem pretium virtue sibi‘ (Virtue is it’s own reward)

*yeah, old person reference, totally not accurate or even appropriate to today’s modern computers and their flat panel displays… damn! I’m really hoping that the prompt word this week is LCD or maybe archaic, I’ll settle for, ‘here’s some milk and graham crackers, ‘How It’s Made’ will be on in a minute.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 4, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

And so, I’m sitting here in the snowy dark, waiting for my brain to accept the inevitability of the day’s Monday-nature and the thought came into my mind, ‘well, why don’t you write a Post?’

Why not, indeed!

(I’m totally betting on the ‘more produces more‘ theory of creativity (in general) and writing (in particular) starting today. And, if you follow this idea through, you’ll have both the proof of the validity of that view, and evidence of the mutability of reality.)

Why yes, that is the kind of stuff that goes through my head on a Monday morning. Hell, it’s the kind of thought that goes through my head all the damn time! We all understand the Wakefield Doctrine well enough to recognize me as a clark, right? Even those of you Readers, who are not clarks, you’ll have a sufficiently significant secondary clarklike aspect to see what I’m saying. And, since we’re now into a discussion proper of the use of the Wakefield Doctrine, how about a quick, down and dirty, guide to identifying the clarks, scotts and rogers that are, even as you read this, busy getting ready for the day that waits out there for you.

Clues to a person’s predominant worldview (aka personality type):

yep! the clarks in this readership just perked up on that last statement. if you’ve read this far and have not stopped and said, (to yourself or anyone else), ‘what?! this is kinda weird’ then, chances are you’re a clark. (because: clarks live in the personal reality of the Outsider. the world (and all the people) are, in fact, ‘out there’
you, the ones out there smiling and laughing (this second expression of fun, only if you’re in the company of other people), you sense something fun and enjoyable, even if the previous bullet point makes you shake your head a little (‘how can the world be out there?? I’m right here!!’), good bet that you’re a scott. (because: scotts live in the seriously fun world of the Predator, which simply means, the present, which, by effect and definition does not allow multiple-locality. meaning…. “Hey, this my life! here and now. no time to waste inside your head, but if you insist on dreaming and such, it’ll leave all the more to me to chase down and enjoy. Hey!”
everyone else…. rogers. don’t feel bad (yeah, as if!) account for the majority of the population, some estimates place the percentage as high as 66% so, you’re a roger. (because: rogers (the Herd Members) live in a world that is both quantifiable and definable. which is not to say, ‘easily understandable’…. because the ‘definition’ of the world resides within (and only within) each individual rogerian person

ok… getting light outside the window. a slight dusting of snow, but the calendar will make it warmer outside than the thermometer says.

New Serial is out and about! ‘Almira‘ For my last Serial, ‘Blogdominion’ I used a website called jukepop to post the successive Chapters. It’s designed to allow a Reader to follow along in sequence. Unfortunately, their little site seems to not be allowing me to start the new story. So I’ve published it on a wordpress blog. It will read awkwardly, because, after there are more than a few Chapters, you’ll, like, have to scroll down to where you last left off and read, back towards the latest one. Or something like that.

Seeing how I might be catching some new(er) Readers, below is the backstory/set up for this story (thanks for the ‘prompt’ to write the story which lead to the serial goes out to zoe and her Six Sentence Story.) Feel free to leave a Comment.

Dorothy Gale cried, feeling nothing but anger towards Miss Gulch. Certainly, and Dorothy would be the first to admit, no one should live in fear of being attacked by dogs (or lions, or even monkeys). The thing was, Miss Gulch struck first, hitting Toto with a rake, so, naturally, the Law of Jungle (or Oz, or even home) exerted itself.

But life on the prairie had rules, people respected the social contract, and Miss Gulch was, in economic, educational and all measure of social standing, as far above the Gale family, as they were above their three itinerant workers. Dorothy might as well oppose the lack of benefits and job security that Hunk, Zeke and Hickory faced in their daily lives, being disadvantaged in effective job market skills (or education, or even in the courage to stand up for their rights).

It was part of what her new teacher, (her former teacher was killed in the storm that also destroyed the school building, although most of her classmates were also killed, by happy chance, Dorothy was absent from class that day), who was also the principle would say to the handful of surviving families on the last day of school in the newly dedicated Almira Gulch High School.”

…there is always more to the story

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Tee Tea oh T -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…of April and brightening light’

April 2, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

(yeah, an odd Post Title, even by our standards! and the Post image is quite the odd one, two…)

But, lets have right at it, shall we? Ten Things of Thankful is a ‘gratitude blog(hop)’ created by Lizzi Lewis. It poses the challenge, ‘what might it be, in the last week, (or the last year, (or, anytime in your life, for that matter)) that engenders the emotion and/or feeling of gratitude?’ Each weekend, we write Posts reflecting this sentiment and, we also visit and read all the other blogs that have joined the weekend’s festivities. While 10 Things (of Thankful) is ostensibly the required format, creativity and ‘good intent’ totally trump strictly defined rules and such, so if you lack the (something) to complete a list of 10 Items or you have a surfeit of Thankfuls then, have at it. (Do not, of course, forget the only other requirement, good intent and everything else will take care of itself.)

(oh yeah, almost forgot… here we have a Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which is something none of those other grat hops got and…and we recognize hypogratitude as a valid item (consistent with ‘good intent’)

Well, aren’t I getting all Queensbury on my intro this week? Bottom line: I’m grateful for the opportunity to participate in this here bloghop here and, as to my description above about the nature and character and rules (found in this ‘hop?) grain of salt, yo, grain of salt. Come join and have yourself some ‘fun’.

Item 1: that I kept at the intro above, until the final version that you are reading. the first it was like, “damn! clark… “Coherence Next 2 Exits”

2): in the spirit of ‘living the Rules, not ruling the Living’, I’m in the mood to mix of the order the Ts and, in all likelihood, will get all SOC on this list.

Three, (just after Two, but surely well Before 14): That Mistress Lewis and my co-hostinae are all so…. liberal in their approach to this bloghop. I left the reference to ‘good intent’ in my intro (despite many other changes and deletions to the original copy) as that is the description that, for me, says it best about how this bloghop seems to be each and every week for the last 7.3 years.*

Quattro Iteemo: I am kinda hypo-gratacious that I have, in fact and deed, completed the Serial Novel, ‘Blogdominion‘ with the posting of the Epilogue last Sunday. I have much work to do in the process remaining. But I’m totally grateful for all of you who read and commented on the story.

Five!!!!!!! I always mention Phyllis and Una in my TToT list, ’cause…. well, damn just because, ya know?

Sex: The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) because it’s the reason I could be comfortable with the last Item, Item Five!!!!! (Item Five!!!! motto: “if you want to bring out your scottian aspect, better stock up on exclamation points, you’re gonna need!!!!!! ’em“)

Self: totally grateful for the Wakefield Doctrine. Talk about your sine qua non!

Ate: () Warning: Gross (but funny)

…Pinta and Santa Maria: Coming this Week! holy smokes! what’ve I gotten myself into? I’m continuing with my efforts to acquire writing skills. Being at the stage of the game that I am, (chronoageistically-speaking), I not have a moment to lose. Part of the process of any self-improvement is to update your own self-description and my thanks go out to zoe on this matter, at least as it applies and pertains to my writing project… she has been first among the, ‘sorry, you’ve accomplished something that disqualifies you from the ‘I am such a shlemiel with the writing and such.’ ) In any event… I’ll be posting Chapter 1 of ‘Almira‘ both on jukepop and it’s own wordpress blog.

Secret Rule (SR) One (point) Three the best of all the Secret Rules! (basically be sayin, “Here I am at the (nearly) end of my list, boy howdy, am I glad of that!” cha…ching! ding an sich, binyons! ding an sich