Month: April 2018 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine

April 29, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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

‘A Garden-to-be and Namesake, both wait patiently.’

This is the bloghop that invites one and all to share the sources of gratitude in their lives. Being the virtual world, (in general), and the blogosphere, (in particular), the variety of experiences found on these pages are as remarkable as this ‘world’ in which they appear.

Hosted by Josie Two Shoes, the TToT, (from it’s proper name: Ten Things of Thankful), is blogging at it’s best. Eschewing the constraints of the common and ordinary ‘gratitude blog’, the TToT is the weekly repository of posts that are: written as well-ordered and engaging lists of the week’s past days; well-ordered lists with clever unifying themes as Mimi comes up with, each week; well-ordered lists utilizing photos that demonstrate the truism that (they) are worth, ‘thousand words’ Val having totally mastered the weaving of image and idea; lists that share the love of our non-human partners on this planet and lists that are as familiar (and enjoyable) as an impromptu conversation with a friend at a local coffee shop.

The TToT is all about allowing others a glimpse into one’s world, life, reality. Sure, we all have ‘real’ world friends, a relationship that, by tenure, entitles us a greater insight into their life. But for most of us, our ‘real’ worlds are populated with people about whom we know height, weight, occupation and family demographic. Nothing wrong with that. It is not uncommon among those who become friends here in the ‘sphere, that we find (and welcome) the opportunity to offer an insight into a part of our actual lives.

So there you have it. Your own very personal library where the shelves are full of tales of people living lives; the pages are full of words that cannot be made up, they can only be lived (and, perhaps, recorded) and they are ours to enjoy and learn from and know that there are others in the world who have done some the things we have done but better and others in the world who have failed at some of the things we have excelled at and others in the world who have felt as we have.

Not a bad way to spend a few hours, non?

1) Una and her garden (see photo above)

2) Phyllis (who pretty much has a hand in all the better images on these pages)

3) Irene Waters, over at the Six Sentence Story, Irene did a Six semi-based on the music of Led Zeppelin. This is surely one of the cooler manifestations of the socio-cultural benefits of this here blogosphere. Her comment (and post) prompted me to remember the ‘day the music got loud’. Hence the week’s music vid.

4) Speaking of other bloghops, you owe it to yourself to stop by the Six Sentence Story and try yer hand at short, short, really, quite short-story writing. (The Six Sentence Story ‘hop has a rather impressive pedigree.. Preceeding the current host, Denise, Zoe managed the weekly prompting of story writing. In the Department of Tiny Planets, none other than our own curatress, Josie Two Shoes cracked the word-whip prior to Z taking over. There are muy (or would that be muchacho?) talented writers participating each every week; Pat being in the forefront of writer-I-watch. (The ‘watch’ implies the part of the reading that ends with, ‘…how the heck did she do that?!!’ For me, the Six Sentence Story is as much about learning as about reading. Pat has that gift for creating a small, simple world with engaging characters doing interesting things. In six sentences. Can I get a ‘damn!’)

5) And a grat item on bloghops is not complete without mention of the FTSF crew. (Picture Pirates of the Caribbean ‘cept with a mostly female cast…. I’ll leave you to decide who plays Jack Sparrow: Kristi or Kenya or Tamara or Madra or Janine or Dana)

6) Kerry… not just ’cause she wields a mean keyboard over at ‘the ‘kerchief’... but because she does stuff in the ‘real’ world and has had things published and been on the radio and does a podcast… in the kid-parlence from a lifetime ago, Kerry’s a total three letter blogger.*

7) Speaking of powers of example. Kristi who does a blog that somehow manages to combine many of the cited attributes, including my favorite, ‘photos-through-windshields- of-moving-cars’. (In the interest of protecting reputations, Kristi hardly ever steers with her knee while rummaging through settings on the camera as a potential photo approaches at 70 mph…like some blogwriters I know ) And, in all seriousness, she is my role model in the photo description thing.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (there are, at least statistics suggest there are, at least 3.45 Readers who, while not regular participants in the TToT, nevertheless harbor a medium strong desire to “...join in that blog someday. But… alas, I have not Ten Items.”

Well… your wait is over. Send us your Grat Item in a Comment and I’ll totally place it here. capische?

9) Technology and the relationships it makes possible (sure, a little redundant, but only in a repetitious way)… Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia. A total power of example and a credit to her people. She’s been busier than usual (ayiiee!) so get yerself over to her blog Intuitive and Spiritual, you can thank us later.

10) SR 1.3 (this is the oft-employed Secret Rule 1.3, one of a number of Rules. One less frequently used SR is SR 89.3 (i) which states, in part: [t]hose who, finding that the comments on a given post have, (somehow), managed to anticipate one’s own remarkably clever bon mot, may (ref SR 3.21 ibid) reply to a comment in (another’s) post and not, by doing so, be prosecuted for ‘thread-jacking’ and may, in fact (SR 2.1;3) be applauded for ‘cranking up the volume on this thing'” op.cit Secret Book of Rules (aka Book of Secret Rules) Cambridge ed. 2014)

* ‘three-letter’ a reference found in high school culture (at least that culture as I experienced it) referring to those members of multiple winning sports teams… not just a letter sweater… but that, times three.

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April 27, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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

Friday and my keyboard is vibrating in anticipation of Kristi and Kenya’s invitations to complete (in)complete Sentence(s). Surely there is something within all of us, an innate capacity to hear the siren-call, the anticipatory release of both tension and energy (sometimes, but not always the same thing) that comes when we are able to produce the last, the final piece of the puzzle/solution/un-realized dream/triumph-over-fear/other person. We all have that capacity, nay, the need to allow ourselfs to be completed or, failing that, complete the thing in our world(s) that begs for completioning.

But lest I go too far afield, lets turn our attention on our hostinae, Kristi and Kenya. They will totally tell it like it is.

Hi all! We’re on tonight at 10pm eastern with “Share a photo and the story behind it.” Easy peasy, lemon squeezy! We hope to see you there. Link up with either Kenya or me anytime through late Sunday evening here:
https://www.kenyagjohnson.com/
or here:
http://www.findingninee.com/

So the photo:

I just like it.

Sorry. That’s all I have. Well, yes, there is way more than that, but as I have noted many times on theses pages, this bloghop, above all others, is a projecting mirror of the writer. And while there are days when we know we’ve got it nailed, accessorized to a T, totally walking the walk…. it’s best not to push one’s luck. Ya know?

btw: the above is a real photo that I ‘took’ with my phone. Forget when it was, last week sometime and although it wasn’t a planned thing, when I came across it in the gallery, I was immediately, all, ‘damn! what the hell! cool!’ (did I mention that I hail from Y Chromia? lol).

In any event, whatever it was that I thought I was trying to photograph is lost in the corridors of time. A close-up of an orange? Maybe. Perhaps I was trying out my new Home Ophthalmology Kit. Sure that’s reasonable. But seeing how, although I’m vamping to get a respectable word count, there’s the (oft ignored) voice in my head, ‘Remember what you said about revealing too much, dude. Come up with something clever and put this funhouse mirror back in the drawer.’

It’s well-established here at the Doctrine that I totally love/hate fairy tales and fables. In my un-qualified opinion they are nothing more than a culturally-manifested form of child abuse. Worse, as a clark, they (all of ’em from Hansel and Gretel to Cinderella…. heck, all the way back to King Midas and Pandora’s Box), are deliberate attempts to create pearls when actually forcing kids to turn all barnacle at least in their inner personal lives (which, one might argue, is most of them in the years up until puberty).

In any event, mirrors are funny things. In fairy tales they’re all, like, talking back to the person standing in front of them. But what they’re saying is only to reinforce what the holder wants (consciously or unconsciously) to hear. But enough of that, let’s get back to my pitcha.

…Kinda reminds me of an album from the seventies… (hey! thats a good idea.)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 26, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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

I know what you’re thinking. ‘If Bogie’s mug is on the post, that can mean only one thing. Another installment(-ette) of ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’. alright!’

Yep. Standing in the gauze-bright cone of a street-light, outside the office of ‘Six, Sentence, Story & Muse LLC’ I’m totally getting into character. Trench coat collar up, cigarette smoke escaping cupped fingers and a head full of regrets. Where’s that keyboard… I gotta tale that’ll make you glad you married the safe one.

Denise (over at Girlieontheedge) is providing the prompt word. All we* have to do is fashion, make-up or otherwise concoct a story that is precisely six sentences in length. How hard can that be? Ok…well, how much fun should that be? Damn straight, a whole bunch of fun.

This week the prompt word is:

Track

I heard my receptionist Hazel get as far as, “…do you have an appoint…” when my office door opened and was immediately filled with a very, very large man; my hand went to the upper right-hand drawer as I put on my best, ‘can’t-you-see-I’m-busy’ expression and said, “Lt. Cardoso, always time for the State Police, you have your choice of client chairs or were you hoping just to loom over my desk in a threatening manner?”

He laughed, “I read the file on you, Devereaux,” one of my eyebrows had a weak moment and abandoned my bored-professional expression for a ‘oh, yeah!?’ move, “you’re smarter than you need to be in this business and I gotta tell you, I’m not a fan of things not making sense.”

Sitting, he slid a manila folder that had my name on the tab and red border along the top edge and watched my face as he continued, “The Feds called and asked politely if I’d come by and find out if you knew anything about whoever broke into your house last night.”

“Nope, not a thing, Lieutenant,” I held out my half-empty pack of Camels and his look of revulsion restored some of my confidence, “probably some junkie with too big a jones and not enough smack; I’m surprised that the State Police give a shit.”

Just as his face began to go rigid into tough-state-cop mode, Hazel stepped into the office with a cup of coffee and some weekend cleavage; game-set-match to my underpaid admin.

“Back in the day, the shit would hit the fan when the Bureau took an interest, but they were regular guys; nowadays, we got Homeland Security and God-knows how many other three-letter outfits run by kids in bespoke suits, too much ambition and a childhood spent killing video bad guys and they never get tired of tracking every move their target makes; trust me, you don’t want them on your case and, unfortunately for you, shamus, that’s exactly what you got.”

* by ‘we’ I mean me and anyone else with the cojones (or alternative, gender-correct metaphorically-suited to reckless-daring, internal body part), which I guess means you.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 23, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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No, not an effort to avoid the ‘real’ writing of the day! Just something Cynthia (or maybe it was Denise... possibly Pat) said in a comment yesterday.

Just that certain FOTD* have, in recent ‘conversations, mentioned how music, although subject to ‘the Everything Rule’**, nevertheless evidences a certain simpatico among members of the same personality types.***

So, here are two tunes for two very different moods likely to be encountered by the clarks today as we encounter, deal with and do what we gotta do with that world ‘out there’.

And, since all work and no play makes any lifeform dull, (yes, even clarks) we have this to play at whichever end of the day you choose.

*Friends of The Doctrine

** ‘the Everything Rule’ states: ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’. What it means is: while each of the three worldviews have an inherent affinity for certain types of music, styles in fashion, professions and trades, cuisines and vacation milieu, no worldview has exclusive domain on anything.

Sure, scotts do well as police officers and surgeons and rogers produce examples of the epitome in the field of CPA, fashion co-ordinator and high school teachers and clarks…well, whatever it was that had the shortest line in gym full of registration tables….lol What we’re saying is that a scott could be (and surely there are some) a CPA and a clark could be a frontman in a band and rogers could be rodeo stars. The interesting thing here is how, if we look closely, each of the three worldviews manifest their ‘thing’ in a manner reflective of their respective worldviews.

A scott as a policeman. Easy. They’re really good at being cops. The job (for them) entails being out among the general public, encouraged to drive fast, chase and capture people and, wherever possible make a lot of noise doing it. But a clark can be a cop as can a roger. Where do you think the Commissioner of police comes from? Or the cops turned successful authors? lol

*** Our three personality types:

clarks (the Outsider) poor posture, incredibly witty (when they can be heard),
scotts (the Predator) active and move quickly, plan and reflect as little as possible
rogers (the Herd Member) precise and exact, living by the rules, happy to share them

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TToV -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 21, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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“In the early days, things were simpler and people more adventurous. Here we see three such people perfectly captured in their natural exuberance in a picture of a screenshot on the desktop of a computer. If that doesn’t tell you everything about the virtual world, we can’t imagine what would. They were brave pioneers, indeed!”

1) Guess who I ran into yesterday?

In any event the photo above is not only of the person I ‘ran into yesterday’ but is also of a time when we were discovering the capabilities of the various outlets and media. (I believe the people pictured are: Denise, Lizzi and Michelle… from the way-back days of the Friday vidchats)

New(er) Readers, Lizzi was the founderess of this ‘hop. The very same bloghop you’re reading that continues under the care of Josie Two Shoes who accepted the very daunting task of keeping the doors open and lights on in this virtual funhouse.

Anyway, I ‘saw’ Miz Lewis yesterday over to the FTSF

2) Speaking of Hypograts*…. yesterday was FTSF and… well, many of us from the land of Y Chromia are somewhat less inclined to read instructions. Further complicating that scenario is my being a clark, (its not that our people do not believe in reading instructions, it’s just that one of the skills necessary to growing up in the world of the Outsider is to be able to infer on (the basis) of minimal information. (Think about it. As a young human you come upon a box labeled: ‘TREE FORT’ Most of the other kids are still at the ballgame (no one noticed when you wandered away from the game because you got bored and …well, no one noticed when you wandered away). In any event, you see the box and you see the lengthy instruction booklet that has an illustration of the completed TREE FORT. Your first thought is, ‘Won’t they all be impressed if you are sitting in the completed tree house when they come by when their game is over.’ Whats a clark to do?* lol))
So, where was I? oh yeah, Hypograt. Yesterday’s FTSF. I got the instructions almost right. It was a Stream of Consciousness Friday. It also had a specific theme/focus which was ‘Home’. I missed that second part.

3) Grateful for the company I keep. Not simply that no one said, ‘Hey! look! he didn’t know there was a theme!’ Hell, I’m an adult (well, I’m an older, more mature clark.) I’d live. No, the thing I’m grateful for is that I know** that the friends I have here in the ‘sphere and the people I hang out with are good people.

4) How about a ‘Lets Take Our Virtual Friends to Work!’

5) Who said, “Well, woods and lakes are fairly common. How about the ocean? We’d all love us some views of the Atlantic Ocean.”

6) Time of the Year (at least calendaristically): Lets see a ‘Before’ photo of Una’s garden. (tomorrow)

‘Una’s Garden 2018. Like top sheets wedged under the arm, the light-brown soil resists even the most ambitious stares.’

7) Una and Phyllis (Here is what I mean about Una being a role model: we’re all up, I’ve consumed my first SABD*** and Una waits patiently for breakfast.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE If anyone is new ’round here and like what they read, feel like participating, but just not thinking they’re ready for a full-on TToT post, your troubles are over. Send me (in a comment) your Grat Item and I’ll totally post it in this reserved spot. Easy peasy.

9) Sunday Supplement The What the heck is this thing Contest’

‘The once, every two-or-three year watering of the cactus thing that sits quietly in the bay window, biding it’s time.’

10) SR 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which, in it’s preface states, in part, ” …[t]he application of (a) bloghop’s rules and guidelines, perforce are mandatory and required, are nevertheless: a)subjective and (therefore) shaped and manifested by the participant’s own view of the task (ref: ‘re vera sensus est‘ perception is reality… b) writers gots to write… op cit). et al, yo))

* Hypograts n. those things, people, situations and events that you so are not grateful happened/occurred/why-they-hell-did-they-have-to-go-and-do-that?!! If this were a normal, average, run-of-the-mill gratitude bloghop, y’all be avoiding hypograts like a ring salesman in a leper colony. Despite the fact that the world is not a constant barrage of crewel embroidered wall-hanging inspiring happy events, one hopes to see the balance of the good with the not-so-good as leaning towards the positive. That being said, this is not your average gratitude bloghop. Well, let me qualify that, the Wakefield Doctrine’s take on this gratitude bloghop is a little more on the distinctive side. Hence the concept of hypogratonia (i.e. the condition of really not feeling grateful that you dropped your phone just as you took it out of the box). The challenge of citing a hypograt on a Grat list is all in how it is expressed. I’ll leave it at that, as the word count of this footnote is about to exceed that of the first Six Items above.

**whoever out there is thinking, ‘but the instructions are the necessary first step’, I say, “Hello, roger!” Lets just say that besides the fact that, when the roger is done, the tree fort will look exactly like the illustration on the cover of the instructions. (Hell, for that matter, when the first visitors show up, the roger will be sure to sit or stand exactly as the instructions show the little line-drawing kid on the cover.) Not that there’s anything wrong with reading instructions. Thats why god invented rogers. And, when cruising at 35,000 ft on your vacation or riding up the elevator in the (name of really tall building here) you can thank the rogerian people for making sure that all the parts were used and none were left in the box because… “well, it looks done, right?”

*** SABD South American Breakfast Drink. I believe we owe the progenitor roger our thanks for that little acrophone.

Ok a little music to get stuck in your head this weekend.