Month: May 2019 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 29, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Hosted by Denise

aka: “…so we get a word and we’re to write a story that’s six and only six sentences in length.”

This week’s prompt word:

MOUNTAIN

“You’ve said, I’ve heard you say, true wisdom is available to everyone willing to work hard and study,” the softness in the young man’s voice, intended to convey self-assurance, exposed his over-confidence.

“Well, half right,” the young woman confined a smile to the corners of her eyes; the plain black wool of her habit a tactile reminder that the outer person is usually clothed by others.

“You already know it, so why can’t you just tell me so that I can know it too?” He sat back in his chair, mistaking a feeling of superiority as power rather than the shackles of society’s bias.

“Knowledge can be shared, knowing cannot.”

Seeing the man’s brow gather itself into a wall, she added, “I will tell you the last third of what I know, “… after enlightenment mountains are once again mountains.”

on again/off again with the music this week: J. S. Bach’s Cantata 140 (Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme) love the song but… I don’t know. But then I came across this ‘version’. Fun

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 26, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Here we are again. Kristi throws open the shutters (though, maybe to keep with the seasonal metaphor) pushes aside the curtains on the bloghop that Lizzi created. Kristi welcomes all to read, write and share any experiences with/of gratitude. (Don’t have to be no doctor with degrees (lol fore-shadowing of the music vid)). In any event, mark your calendars: June 6 2019

1) Phyllis. For providing reminders of things I’ve learned and sometimes forget that I already know.

2) Una. For being a living demonstration of the rightness of some of the things referenced in Item 1

“One paw after the other… can you remember that?”

3) Yardwork^{3A & 3B} The photo at the top of the post is from yesterday at the site of most of my physical and spiritual self-development. There is a brush pile on our property, one edge of which is in the photo with Bella’s wagon. It, (the pile, not Bella’s wagon), is easily 20 years in the making. Most of the woods on our property are pines. Pine trees, as we all know, shed limbs like baggies of pot out the windows of a 1969 VW bus at a traffic stop. In any event, we decided to clean up the woods. Trouble is, brush piles like this one compress over time and one has to dig (with a rake) in order to expose the under layers of rotten tree trunks.^{4^3B}

4) ^3B Exercise So… about the rotten tree trunks that I’m uncovering. Like a personal archeological dig, (“My God, Carruthers! The people who built these brush mounds surely must have dwarfed modern Man, not only in size but in short-sightedness!). I’m stacking the top layers in neat piles for the chipper and pulling cart loads of rotten tree trunks to a section of woods where no one goes. (Yes, I know, clarks don’t always learn their lessons).

5) ^3A Spiritual development. To walk quietly when physically exhausted. (For a clark) surely the next step in spiritual development. The body knows, we need only quiet the mind.

6) The Book-writing process. Defending my doctoral fiction thesis at the University of Stomach Aches, Doubt & Elation.

7) Upcoming anniversation* of this here bloghop hop. See Kristi and the TToT facebook group for details. Speaking of wild-partying, has anyone ‘seen’ Jack? (He gets credit/takes the blame for one of the cooler anniversary past events… the one with ‘Naked Cake’)

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE Need a place to publish a single Grat, want to give the group a shoutout but only one, not ten? Here you go.

9) Gotta go with an old standby: technology (in general) computers (in particular). Had to replace the home typing-box. Staying with St. Roger’s Computers and Sundries (Apple). The process has been… interesting. Will save the story for next week’s TToT.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 You know, you made it!

music vid

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “and…and! a Finished er… Sentence!”

May 23, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story.

Denise is host.

Rules: use the prompt word, keep it to six sentences.

Hey! Not to spoil the fun of the Six, but there is a bonus link down at the bottom, right below the music vid. (You know, like at the end of some movies where they do stuff doing and after the ‘credits have rolled.)

Prompt word:

FRAME

The sky outside your window is a Thursday overcast, the not-yet-committed frown of your favorite teacher looking up at your late arrival, confidence in writing a Six with an easy-sounding prompt word evaporates like summer love on the first day of freshman year in high school.

You decide what you really need is to take a walk and, draping your fingers over the mouse, the 21st Century’s walking stick, set out into the virtual forest.

Barely three bookmarks down the digital path, you find yourself in Facebook and, staring you in the face: an invitation to join Mardra and Kristi at your first bloghop, Finish the Sentence Friday.

Ambition, the red cartoon devil that lives somewhere near your left ear lobe, starts whisper-shouting, “Hey look, that photo…its a door frame… a frame (the voice acquires a Hervé Villechaize excitement from the old Fantasy Island) and thinking about the how the other participants of the ‘hop, like D.Avery and Lisa and Violet and Pat and the others manage to make it look easy, you decide to step up your game and write a ~~multiple~~, ~~bloghopplex~~ a ~~post with multiple~~…. a Six Sentence Story/Finish the Sentence Friday combo-post!

Sitting straighter in your chair, you stare at the photo at the top of the post, the prompt from the Finish the Sentence ‘hop and smile; as a photo it is as direct and accurate a representation of your view of life, reality, the world (current, past and future)… hell, the FTSF post is written in the first words that come to mind when you look at the photo of a threshold dividing what is and what might be.

Once again, like a too-young child and a security blanket, you take comfort in the paraphrased acknowledgment that not only does reality imitate art, it is often indistinguishable.

So, about that multiple bloghop post.

Kristi and Mardra do in fact invite all to stop by (10:00 pm tonight until the weekend) to finish the sentence…which this week is simply the photo above. Let me have Mardra Sikora tell you herself….

Hello! Friday May 24th weekend, tell us where this “Open Door” takes you. Prompt is the photo or the title or both!
I’ll share the direct blog link on Thursday too. Thanks Kristi for letting me co-host and share. See you there!
“Open Door”

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of self-improvement and the swelling of one’s head.”

May 21, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool for understanding the world around us and the people that it is full of. The actual wording is, ‘…to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.‘

Note the word ‘experiencing’. We don’t mean: ‘how the other person sees it’ nor do we intend to suggest that the Doctrine will help focus on: ‘the things that matter to this other person’. We seek to appreciate nothing less than: How they are experiencing it.

Lets say you and I stood on the side walk across the street from Milliways. It’s not simply that you and I are observing disparate elements of this famous restaurant’s structure (and signage, exterior lights and, even, the people walking into and out of the establishment). The Doctrine maintains that the restaurant manifests differently for each of the two of us.

Damn! I am way out of shape when it comes to reducing a life-encompassing perspective into a couple of paragraphs (and some clever, throw-away lines).

In any event.

Today’s post is about the difficulties we encounter when we strive to self-improve ourselves. Simply put: the world, our lives, the expectations of those around us, both collectively and individually, resist any effect to stray from the path/style-of-interacting-with-the-world we’ve established. Furthermore, this resistance will involve experiencing potentially negative feelings and emotions*. All intended, of course, to break our resolve and, failing that, serve as a noxious warning against any future attempts on the primacy of the status quo.

One of the things about the Wakefield Doctrine, as a tool for self-improving ourselfs, is that helps a lot is the matter of ‘the other two’.

According to the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, we’re all born with the potential to experience the world in one three characteristic ways: as an Outsider(clarks), a Predator(scotts) or as a Member of the Herd(rogers). We, all of us, at a very early age settle into one of these three and develop our strategies for interacting with the world appropriate to …where we find ourselves. The thing is, we never lose the capacity to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. I’m a clark (Outsider predominant worldview) with a secondary scottian aspect (vestigial claws and the occasional impulse to chase things that seem to be fleeing) and marginal rogerian tertiary (put a thumbtack on my chair and every 10¹³ times, rather than run at you or away from you, I might sit and cry and/or find another empty seat to put the tack.)

So when I set out today to improve (which for me means developing my rogerian and scottian aspects), I dread but am not surprised when I find my head swell(ing) up and my face fall(ing). This feeling of projectile self-consciousness is almost always a reaction to noticing myself acting ‘out of character’, i.e. in a manner typical of a roger or a scott.

That is reality’s method of keeping me on script. I got no business feeling comfortable as a part of a group of people, I run an extreme risk when I relax and act like I don’t need to hide and I totally am at hazard when I act impulsively and ‘all-up-and-in-the-face’ of those around me.**

Except that I do anyway. And that’s because I believe that, from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, I have the potential to interact with the world as do my scottian brothers and sisters and I inherently possess the credentials to stand stolidly in the middle of the Herd and know that I belong.***

So now it’s time to head out into reality (lol) and practice.

* not quite the same thing(s). but you knew that

** New Readers: …because I’m a clark and, for a clark, the thing we spend our lives avoiding is scrutiny. Now go and read some more posts and it’ll totally make sense.

*** Full Disclosure: sorta… got to keep in mind that, speaking for myself, I’ve spent my life (from when I was just a wee, little 89 year old boychild) practicing the ways of the Outsider. As it should be. After all, the Doctrine maintains that personality types is not a description of traits and inclinations and such, as it is understanding how the other person is relating themselves to the world around them.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 19, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Here we are again. The weekend and the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Hosted each week by Kristi, all blog writers and blog readers are invited to join in on a reflection, examination and celebration of the people, places and things that cause, inspire, instigate and otherwise elicit the emotion of gratitude. The bloghop makes reference to ‘Ten’ things of thankful, so if you write a post with ten items you’re on pretty safe ground. This place is nothing if it’s not freedom hall, so if you write Thirteen Things of Thankful (TToT) or Three Things of Thankful (TToT!) or even Five Things of Thankful (T/2 ToT), you’ll be safe as houses.

You get the idea. So on with the post

1) Una gets top billing this week because…

2) Phyllis … lol, she is, as am I, accustomed to getting second-billing to a certain Chodsky pes.

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Great Brush Pile project of 2019 continues…

5) Question for Readers. We’re comfortable with the notion that our Una garden, while in all ways satisfying in the demands it puts on us to move dirt from one place to another, suffers from a certain photo-deficiency. Specifically the amount of direct sunlight it receives. Current estimates put it at less than three hours per day. ‘Cause of the pine trees, in whose gathering we live, our question is do we plant driveway corn this year? (Newer Readers: we did a corn spiral and driveway corn last year. The spiral was in the backyard and so, did not flourish. The driveway corn, on the other hand, gets way more sunlight. So, let us know what you think. (No sense in asking the neighbors, I suspect they think we’re kinda weird.)

6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). Besides providing the ever-useful SR 1.3 (see last Item on this list), it also allows for a special type of grat item, the much-whispered-hardly-ever-invoked, HypoGrat category. While a full exegesis of this portion of the BoSR/SBoR is beyond the scope of a single item, allow me to say, “That!! The thing about the Una garden and plants that don’t grow but still enough to make it a all-you-can-eat for the local fauna?” See Item 7 thats a hypograt.

7) Them pine trees and their two-hour horizon

The view from. the upper storey back deck. A house in an ocean of carboniferous waves.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. For anyone either on the fence or standing on the vanishing boarding platform of some soon to become a museum trainstation, having posted their TToT only to see an Item, somehow not made a part of the intended post. (Friend of the Doctrine Mimi took excellent advantage of this feature only last week. So, come on down.)

9) Thanks to Kristi Campbell for inviting us to participate in her own bloghop, Finish the Sentence Friday. It is, as everyone knows, the first ‘hop I participated in and totally spoiled me on bloghops. It’s fun, welcoming and no pressure (and, …cue the famous Groucho Marx joke about ‘clubs that would have people like me for a member’.) lol. It runs from Thursday night to the weekend. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

10) S.R. 1.3 “…[in part] the fact of having nine items of gratitudosity is, in and of itself, something to be…. (wait for it)…. grateful for! Go ahead and put that bad boy into Item 10…. er, quid pro quo y’all.”

(got the following stuck in my head late this week, thanks for helping out)