Month: February 2019 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 27, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Denise is host.

(The way of the bloghop: a story, six sentences in length, based on the week’s prompt word.)

In my defense, allow me to say one thing: a) I will forgo the self-deprecation that is a hallmark of my people and 2) …It wasn’t my: fault, hubris, self-destructiveness that caused me to come up with the Six below.

I was minding my own business, riffing off the prompt word…. hit the idea of an operating room… but then the ‘clear’ lead me to the Bible and then, obviously to death which, naturally led me to Dylan Thomas.
Then the trouble started!
‘Mashup’ popped into my head and I thought to myself, I thought, ‘Hey! Maybe there’s such things as poetry mashups! That way I won’t have to think up rhymes and such.’

And here you have it.

Prompt word:

Clear

(From far above, drawing near, he heard),”Clear”, the velet-iron command, trapped in a colorless sun, turned the 33 rpm waltz of anesthesiologist and surgical assistants into a 78 rpm ragtime, where only one instrument mattered.

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.¹

(Both avalanche and cresting wave, he felt), “Again”, wrapped from head to toe in featureless cloth, the better to avoid the gods’ anger at Man’s unbridled ambition, masked eyes offered dying hope.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.^2!!

(From both within and without, rose), “Call it” only the slump of shoulders and release of muscle and tendon betrayed the burden of coming in last; weightless olive wreath awarded, if only to mark the end of the contest.

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”^3…

2) COPYRIGHT: from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp

3) 1 Corinthians 13:12

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…of time, emotion and self-development.’

February 25, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is grounded upon the notion that there are three characteristic ways of perceiving the world around us; as would an Outsider (clarks), a Predator (scotts) and a Herd Member (rogers). The reality that these perspectives create is what we call our predominant worldview. Standing side-by-side outside a popular restaurant, a clark, a scott and a roger would be experiencing the intention to ‘go get a bite to eat’ quite differently.

The Doctrine maintains that while everyone lives in only one predominant worldview, we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two.’ And, some of us, have more highly manifested ‘secondary aspects’ than others. For example, I am a clark with a significant secondary scottian aspect. That means that, under certain conditions, I can experience the world as does a scott and my behavior, as witnessed by others, would be more direct and aggressive than that normal to a clark. Equally a roger or a scott can have a significant secondary clarklike aspect. This configuration will lend a certain propensity for excessive curiosity, a tendency towards subtle-to-the-point-of-invisibility humor and an overwhelming desire to mix and match fashions that, at times, will cause the lights to dim and the radio to flare-up in static.

In point of fact, most Readers of this blog, if not clarks, are scotts and rogers with significant secondary clarklike aspect.

No, its true!

Anyway, that’s not the theme of today’s post. The theme of today’s post is using time and music in order to leverage a desire to self-develop oneself. This will resonate mostly with clarks, but you others might get a vibe off it.

The thing about clarks is that although we are not causally emotional, we do have an emotional element. And, for us, the raw power to produce change is, most often, manifested as emotional content. This usually involves the world shifting in significant and un-anticipated ways. (The well-known ‘Holy shit!’ moments that many people experience prior to enlightenment, soul-revealing insight and a near miss on the interstate.)

So find yourself a song from way ago and play it. Listen to the emotional echoes. If you’re lucky, they will be powerful enough to rattle the dishes (in your metaphoric kitchen….as you listen to the song…back then)

Here’s one that worked for me today.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 24, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Here we are again, the weekend and the TToT.

A bloghop of longstanding* it is hosted each weekend by Kristi. She invites all to join in on the fun. The theme is simple: write and link a post that lists and otherwise describes those people, places and things that have made you feel grateful. We, in our compilation, are not limited to the interval of time since last you linked. We wave the banner of a-chronology, i.e. no limits or restrictions on the period (or sequence) of time in which to search for items of gratitude. Could be since last week or since the first week back at the dorm after the Christmas break in your sophomore year at college**.

I will cite the following:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine because it allows me the opportunity to employ two alternate perspectives on the world around me. It helps.

4) work (’cause it provided me with the occasion to drive down the coastline yesterday (for our geophilic readers: from North Kingstown down to Westerly)

5) This week’s excerpt from ‘Almira’. (Set up: Almira Ristani is now Mrs. Almira Gulch. Her husband, Sterling Gulch, went and signed up for the US Expeditionary Force to fight in Europe for the closing phase of WW I. He bought into the well-intentioned, thoroughly un-realistic notion of a ‘the war to end all wars.’ (Before anyone discounts the optimism that is all too characteristic of the outlook of the young, consider the price many are asked (or tricked) into paying.)
In any event, Almira now has a degree in elementary education and here we watch her interview for her first teaching position. ( Almost forgot! Almira is now burdened with a prominent and bordering-on-disfiguring hooked nose. The result of being beaten very badly when she was sixteen years old. A severe broken that, for lack of medical care, healed into its present form. Other than this one feature, she is a thin young woman with light brown hair and eyes the color of a sapphire if it was born of a ruby and an emerald. A passing stranger might describe her eyes as vague and somewhat unfocused. If that stranger stopped and spoke to her, their opinion would change. They would then, provided they had the vocabulary, describe eyes that were locked on a world (or a part of a world) beyond the cold granite-and-brick world of a turn-of-the-century mill town. )

Looking out her office window before the interview, Sister Aloysius watched as the young woman rode into the schoolyard on what, she believed, was the biggest bicycle she’d ever seen. As she watched, the woman jumped from the bike and spent five minutes re-arranging her clothing. This included putting on a hat from a wicker basket attached to the back of the bicycle’s seat. Her smile of approval broadened, almost into laughter, as the young woman kicked a stray ball back to the knot of boys, their kickball game rescued by a stranger. The enjoyment on her face as she did so ignited a burst of laughter from the children in the school yard. The principle of Our Lady of the Intercession smiled and waited for her job applicant to arrive at her office.

The interview went the normal course for a teaching position interview; reading of records, explanation of grades and awards, likes and dislikes. There came the point in the conversation where there was no longer any information or insight into the candidate’s schooling or qualifications left un-noted. Nothing remained to discuss other than the applicant’s face.

Sister Aloysius asked point-blank, “So, Mrs. Gulch, how do you expect you’ll respond to the looks and the stares of the ruder people? Parents of children, particularly those children who require extra attention, are not always the kindest of people. Our parish is, in large part, working poor Catholic families. Does that pose any problems we should discuss?”

Almira smiled and replied, “I grew up among the working poor. My husband, Sterling is from the other end of the social order, where wants are few and choices plentiful. I believe I’ll be fine with parents from any background. After all, it is the children in my care, not the adults.”

“I believe you’ll do just fine, Mrs. Gulch, just fine.”

6) Speaking of writing, you owe to yourself to go over to the Six Sentence Story. Every week a bunch of them, what want to write stories, gather and share what they writ. Very cool bunch hang out there. Besides Denise, theres Paul Brad and our friend Mimi and Pat Brockett and Deborah Lee and Lisa and Reena and Kristi and D.Avery and Violet and ever so many talented writers.

7) the weather… say what you will about climate change¹, but this winter we haven’t had snow on the ground for more than three days in a row.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (If you’re out there, like the idea of participating in a ‘gratitude blog’, but feel you need to have more of a list before linking, this space is available for a trial run. Send in what ya gots and I’ll post it.)

9) ~~something, something~~. Hey! Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia posted a video on ‘the Facebook’. you totally gots to go and watch. The topmost video/post.

Try clicking here.

10) Secret Rule 1.3. (just a second ago you were, all, “hey! I made it to Item 9!! That means…. that means, one more and you’re done. Which is totally something to be grateful for!)

* in blogosphere years it’s been, like, 23 years since this bloghop was launched by CS Lewis’s grandniece-in-exile, Lizzi Lewis. The Doctrine was among the original ten co-hosts (no, not normal, but the ‘hop has never been what anyone could accuse of being ‘typical’ or ‘ordinary’.)

** we will so not be visiting that era for this post.***

*** lol

no, better not… someone from one of the younger generations might be reading this and, if I were them, I’d be really kinda pissed off about our Gaia abuse.

…’cause it’s a rainy Sunday morning and what day of the week is more conducive to time travel than a Sunday morning?

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 21, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

This bloghop invites participants to write a story, six sentences in length with the week’s prompt words as… well, as the prompt word.

Hosted by Denise each Weduresday… its fun and good for those of us searching for proficiency. (Writing about writing proficiency is like fighting a war to establish peace. If you do it right you forget the goal.)

Prompt:

Perch.

Smoke and sound climbed the invisible vines of air to the man; the scent at once ancient and alien, the tolling bells deprived of all resonance and most tone, shouts under water drowning before being heard.

Looking down from his choir loft perch, the man became refocused as the slow procession of slumped shoulders and hand-to-face sobs moved with reluctant discipline towards and beneath him. Fragments of self came together and he acquired both a personal pronoun and a set of feelings, the first being fear, like the sight of a towering roller coaster while still in the parking lot.

The last person in the dark-suited line of mourners lagged behind, her face that of a woman locking the front door as the impatient car full of family waited in the driveway to begin a long anticipated vacation trip.

Urgency grew and the distance between the woman and the void of white, (unseen beneath him), shrank.

Darkness followed the smoke and the sound falling upwards, filling the vast space; a spark of self, pulled wooden-letter blocks together to form a last thought, “Don’t go, I can’t stay here alone.”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘a quick little re-print post and then on with the day’

February 19, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

It has long been understood that each day of the week (as divided by our Greco-Roman-Franco-American culture*) possesses a certain…Simpatía with each of the three worldviews.

Part of the charm, nay, the fun in employing our little personality theory as (an) additional perspective on the world around us is how the Doctrine is everywhere! No, seriously. Everywhere.

The magic is in how the ‘qualities’ of each of the three predominant worldviews are gathered. It is not uncommon, when first seeing the world through the lens afforded by the Doctrine, to be frightened and/or amused by the consistency of the qualities being demonstrated by a person. You learn the nature of the relationship of each of the three personality types to the world around them and you happen upon a:

clark (Outsider) if at work, you’ll think you’re seeing them for the first time. The occasion will be either something crazy funny they say that no one else seemed to hear or you spot them reacting to something going on in the immediate environment and it’s the perfect ‘aside’. You’re pretty sure they must be new, otherwise you’d have noticed them before, given how… oddly they’re dressed
scott (Predator) if at work, you’ll sit back and watch the show. this guy/that woman is, like, ‘how do they even get away with that… but in a fun way. Unless you’re the one they focus on (“Is there someone in the audience who is thinking of…. lets get them up on the stage, come on, folks a great big hand for!!!”) For the eightieth time you wonder: a) how do they keep that up and 2) their spouse is either a saint or the devil
roger (Herd Member) if at work… you’re in luck. Most of the people around you are rogers. But that’s not the lucky part. They surely are easy-going and friendly and so intense when you listen to them…. but that’s not the lucky part. You like how they confide in you and pulling you off to the side or closing the door makes it all the more special… but that’s not the lucky part. The business of their relationship to the world around them is… they are the center of their own Herd. And if you draw anyone away from them, they will lash out. And this is the lucky part. You know, (if you’ve done your Doctrine homework), when that happens, its them, not you.**

So what about the reprint?

(From 2012 ‘Tuesday Morning: how the 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine respond to this ‘mildest of Weekdays”)

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( three characteristic worldviews determine the 3 personality types: clarks, scotts and rogers )

Almost too easy. But we must be considerate of the New Reader! No telling how many people have arrived here at the Wakefield Doctrine this very Tuesday morning, driven by an insatiable curiosity, a little free-time at their computer at work/school or simply an annoying friend/co-worker (“...yeah, no! just go there! don’t try to read the About page, just read this Post! it’s about these people and these worldview things and…the thing of it is they are so right and I can’t stop seeing these scotts and clark and rogers…rogers!! do you have any idea how disturbing it is now whenever I drive past a bunch of guys riding bikes, wearing the kind of spandex that made Pat Benatar such a star… and just go there and let me know when you understand how any of this is going to be useful!“)

We all know that Tuesday is the day of the week that is most clarklike, right? The clue was right there in the Title, right? And by the associating of the word ‘mild’, you know have a spot-on assessment of the clarklike personality type, right?

Wrong.

Well, right about the ‘Tuesday is the most clark-friendly Day of the Week’, but t-wrong about the assessment of the clarklike personality type as being ‘mild’. Moderate?, fair… temperate?, sure, why not? even-tempered?, now you are straying… easy-to-get-along-with? getting colder… flat-affect, overly rational? ok…warmer… driven by a disconnected emotional aspect to find the way back home… yow! boiling !

Tuesday is the easiest-going Day of the Week. Rivalled only by Thursday on the lowered expectations scale, Tuesday is the day where you can believe in the promises of the work/school, even commit yourself to giving all to making the week a time of great accomplishment. Without the threat of an Exam (Friday) or even a pop quiz (Wednesday), Tuesday is the day where:

clarks relax

scotts wake up

rogers begin to get annoyed

If you were looking through the eyes of a clark…on a Tuesday morning…and the newspaper headlines read: ‘Meteor to Strike Earth on Friday, Extinction of all Life Certain!’ your reaction would be:

relief because the mess you made of your first serious relationship would finally stop bothering you (…hopefully)

excitement because now you don’t have to worry about having enough money to pay the mortgage

amused because you had a dream in which you felt loved and cherished by all and when you woke up you had a genuine emotional conviction that you were ‘a part of the family’

a sense of vindication because you knew that nothing really mattered

regret as you finally realized that people did not really care about how strange the inside of your head is, they only wanted to believe that you liked and appreciated them

Well, that was …interesting!

If the rogers and the scotts would form an orderly line (yeah, right) we will register each and every one of your objections to this Post.