Month: December 2016 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 31, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Happy 2016.

Happy New(er) Year 2017

1) the TToT Founderess Lizzi and the co-hostinae: Christine, Kristi, Kristi, Dyanne, Michelle, Lisa, Sarah and zoe

2) the Graviteers: val, joy, lisa, sarah, kristi, christine

3) the Sexy Six Sentence Story ….(writers): zoe, Mimi, Stella, Josie, Kristi, Pat, Paul, Valerie Old Egg lisa

4) speaking of others, Kerry (who has a road trip planned for 2017 très cool)

5) Denise for the continuing help on the writing thing, which leads to ‘Almira’

6) ‘Almira’ coming to the end of our story.

7) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

8) Cynthia and all the things she’s accomplished in the past year… v impressivo* including, but not limited to writing, completing and… and! publishing a book, ‘Marina’s Broken Grave‘ and a whole website ( ‘Intuitive and Spiritual’) that will become a comprehensive resource for all who would seek the path less travelled or are just trying to get through the day a little better than the day before… all sorts of things …and coloring!

how cool is this here drawing here that I received (quite un-expectedly)

9) the Wakefield Doctrine, of course!

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word

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6Sstooory -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 29, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Writing this ‘warm-up’ while still at the office. Four thirty and it’s still light out!

Anyway, today is Wednesday which means tomorrow is Thursday* And that means it time for zoe’s Six Sentence Story bloghop! This is where a prompt word is given and participants are asked to write a story that employs the word and is, in total, no more (or less) than six sentence in length.

This week the word is ‘Patient’

“Please remain on the line for the next available representative, be advised that your call may be recorded for re-straining purposes.”

The man stopped listening to the repeating song loop that he awoke to just an hour before, specifically (and repeatedly) the sexy voice of Pat Benatar announcing her intention to endure physical/emotional abuse at the hands of her partner, (the implication being that he/she would be unsuccessful and instead be abused by the abused), furrowed his eyebrows, and thought, ‘what did they just say?’

The hold tone music continued to play it’s repeated and just-short-of-a-melody-length sequence of notes; the man considered putting his phone on speaker so he could use both hands, but decided not to take the chance.

“We value your attention, please remain on the line, someone will be coming for you shortly,” for the second time, the man was startled out of his efforts to remain calm and patient, and looked across the bed at the end table closest to the door.

04:43:00 AM

Cool blue numerals began to blink, a 21st Century oracle standing before an otherwise dark cavern, enticing in it’s the promise of simplicity, which is almost always confused with desirability.

*hey! want a single question to ask a person that the answer they give will provide a sure insight into their predominant worldview? Ask: ‘How much is 2 plus 2?’

A roger and a scott will answer, simply and un-equivalently,** ‘Four’ A clark…. they will think about it. They might even ask for more information.

** yeah, a light rogerian expression

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- Christmas 2016

December 25, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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I had a pretty simple, reverse-order, close-to-the-end-of-the-year, (not realizing that there should be one more TToT in 2016), TToT post written yesterday. Then I wrote this one:

1) Merry Christmas-culture-appropriate-wishes to:

Our Founderess Lizzi Lewis (and her great uncle CS), all of the co-hostinae, my fellow Graviteers, zoe (“hey! Joules…. ‘ARRH'”) and the gang at her Six Sentence Stories and a most grateful wish for a happy life for Almira, Sterling and Aurora Gulch, living on whatever plane of existence that is reserved for people who exist because they really should, but had to wait for their story to be told.

Items 2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9

10) SR 1.3 (‘the completion of a List of Ten Things of Thankful, in and of itself, constitutes a legitimate Item for (said) List and maybe used as the last Item’)

Your hosts

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 22, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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As old Yeats would have said, “And what bloghop opens, its hour come round at last” (well, he might have said that, you can’t say for certain that he, like, wouldn’t).

Anyway, fans of this bloghop know that each Thursday our friend zoe/ivy provides us with a prompt word and asks that we devise a story using this word in some manner. Since she started this year, there’ve been some rather cool writing and not just the fun and clever variety. A couple of the people have had the talent and ability to create viable and engaging serial stories… chapters each week, six sentences at a time! … like Josie who takes us back to the early 20th C, all of the charm and horror of semi-early American history; Mimi and her tale of the nice couple who happen to have a genie in the attic (no, not Barbara Eden!), and, of course, there’s the semi-eponymous Frank and Stella, the couple that have grown increasingly real each week, six sentences at a time. And the rest of the v talented crew at Six Sentence Story.

….you know you want to try it. come on! I thought the same thing myself when I started! Yet, every week I get out the ouija-keyboard and see what comes out.

This week the word is: ‘Mark’

The image of the young woman advanced from the depths of the full length mirror, stepping out from the uncertainty that is a looking glass to stand at the edge of the world.

“It’s six thirty, you know they told you if you were late again you’d find yourself back at the employment agency,” a voice, tired and yet jagged with threat, rose from the quilted-dark of the bedroom.

Stepping further into the dressing room, the shape of the woman cast a dark-on-pale-yellow on the slightly skewed rectangle of light that extended towards the bed, threatening to draw un-wanted attention. Her hand flittered along the high collared blouse, delicately touched the sunset edge of her eye, like a cliff swallow hovering on rock’s edge, she feathered her cheek with a color of healthy flesh, from nowhere, the memory of a loved and feared voice,

“Mark my words, young lady, if you leave this house today there is no guarantee that you will be able to come back,” despite all the books written by experts and the desperately well-meant advice, shame ignited, a match tossed thoughtlessly on a pile of old newspapers.

“Hey, sorry about last night but you know what it does to me when you talk about leaving, I’ll make it up to you tonight. you’ll see,” the voice fading down into slumber, left the path clear for the young woman, standing in the doorway, to let her shoes fall behind, and step silently back towards the bedroom, the marks on her face and body growing more pronounced as the regret-fueled rage grew.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘on severing the ties of desire while still caring about the outcome’

December 20, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Yeah, we clarks are like that…. all the time. Even when no one is looking, we’re trying to figure this, world and reality, people and relationships, thing out.

You know how cool this Wakefield Doctrine is, as a tool for better understanding the people in our lifes? Consider the last part of the last (complete) sentence. Where I say, ‘we’re trying to figure this thing out’. The Doctrine tells us that if you’re a clark, encountering that implication will increase your interest; if you’re a scott, and have nothing better to do at the moment, your curiosity is piqued, ( the essential difference: the amusement value a ball or a ball with a little bell in its hollow center); and if you’re a roger, you’ll start to get annoyed. You know for a fact that, if the writer doesn’t want to (and can’t) express a complete thought, there are serious implications to how worthwhile any further investment of time might be and will look around (wherever you might be) and see how you’re feeling.

Anyway.

Today’s subtitle: ‘severing the ties of desire while still caring (enough to continue the implied effort) about the outcome’, is one of those goulash insights that we like people are totally prone to, as we go through our day, absorbing knowledge and information (mostly information and of that, the bulk of which might, on first blush, seem to be useless information). Every now and then, a set of stray words clump together in a new and interesting way. (Sort like, on the science channel, when they illustrate the galaxy and the solar system formed…. only way speeded up.)

So we’re all familiar with the famous observation/ lesson/ inference/ hey!-check-this-out-about-existance that asserts: ‘Desire is the root of all suffering’. Clearly this is an accurate assessment. But the question that popped into my head, (while playing solitaire, my preferred form of sitting zazen), was, so how then are we to self-improve ourselves, if we don’t care whether we succeed or not. (Imo) (the) desire is not, in and of itself, destructive; the relationship created (between us and the desired), is the culprit. To desire something (someone, whatever) is to identify outside of the self. And, as any good salesman will tell you, you not only want what you can’t have, you want what you can’t have more than is supported by the benefits inherent in the desired.

whoa, is it me or is this getting a little dense for a Tooesday post?

…fortunately, the Wakefield Doctrine has an answer. Well, not quite an answer, more of an illustration of how to not get trapped by the me/not-me conundrum so often waiting for those of us who try to be better lifeforms. The approach taken by the Doctrine to self-improvement can provide(an) additional perspective. And if there’s one thing we like, here at the Doctrine, it is to have additional perspectives.

Pick a quality, a personal characteristic that you believe would make you a better you. Chances are it’ll be something like, ‘I want to be more confident at work.’ or ‘I really would be happy if I didn’t lose my temper so quickly.‘ or even, ‘If I could stop being such a perfectionist, that’d be great!‘

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that what others refer to as one’s personality type is simply a reflection of the character of our ‘predominant worldview’. Example: I live in the worldview of the Outsider. What accounts for those personality traits and characteristics that identify me as a clark is the fact that I grew up and encountered the world of the Outsider and so my social strategies, coping mechanisms, all the things that I say and do in the course of interacting with the world are those of a clark. This worldview can also be thought of as our personal reality, that part of life that is a melding of the subjective and the objective world. In a way, the Doctrine’s view of personality types is that each of us are demonstrating the best coping strategies we could develop, in response to the reality we grew up in.

Lucky for us, the Wakefield Doctrine allows that, though we live our lives in one predominant worldview (the Outsider, the Predator, the Herd Members), we never lost the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two). As a result, when we talk about self-improvement, we’re actually focusing our efforts on discovering qualities that we already possess, albeit as a potential. But the important thing about this approach is that we’re not trying to learn something totally new. We self-improve by discovering and accepting and practicing those traits and characteristics that we would be exhibiting (as our personality type) had we grown up in one of ‘the other two worldviews’.

Well, that’s all the time we have today. Be sure to follow along in Part 2 as we continue the exploration of ‘The Passion of Mindfulness’

Hey! You want to do me a favor? Go to ‘Almira’ and read the latest, Chapter 37 and click on the ‘vote’ at the bottom of the chapter. It will help me with my standings on the site. And as we all know, we never really left high school and so the appearance of popularity is pretty much all thats necessary to succeed.