Month: July 2019 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 31, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

The Six Sentence Story is a bloghop, hosted by Denise, that invites all inclined to writing to fashion and otherwise create a story utilizing the week’s prompt word. The length of said story is to be exactly… Six Sentences!

This week, as fans will infer from the photo above, is a ‘Missing Starr’ story.

This week’s prompt word:

PAD

“The first time I saw a Superman comic book, I must have been all of nine, I laughed at my friend Susan’s brother, ‘They don’t recognize him because he’s wearing glasses?’

Sister Margaret Ryan looked up from the checkout counter full of groceries and grinned, “So, working in a supermarket on the Delmarva Peninsula is, like, some kind of Heiress Outward Bound Adventure?”

The tall young woman, Brunello Cucinelli t-shirt under a bright-green smock, stood out from the other two cashiers like a Ferrari in the dirt parking lot of a country flea market, “Yeah. something like that”, she paused and, leaning over the counter, said, “I need you to decrypt something for me, a thumb drive, I’ll be leaving it in a storage locker.”

Margaret put her hands into the black folds of her habit, “Hold on, let me get the note pad Sister Cletus makes me use for the convent’s grocery list.”

Starr arched a perfect eyebrow, “Said the girl who hacked into the IRS, using her phone, in the middle of an interview with Radcliffe’s Dean of Admissions?”

Seeing the young novitiate’s expression, she responded to the unspoken invitation, “No thanks, following you back to your new life wouldn’t be such as good idea; I’m kinda on the run from people you really don’t want showing up on your doorstep.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘tell me one, immediately useful thing this Doctrine can do for me and I’ll Comment.’

July 29, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

I have, for reasons un-examined, come to think of Monday as Cynthia’s Substitute Class Day. (You remember. The substitute teacher, (short-term substitute, not long-term; there is a total difference between the two, the former a clark or a scott, the latter a Roger), would start the class by saying that she/he would pick up where the regular teacher left off, and then ask the class where that was.)

Cast your mind back to, say, either the third or the sixth or, if you’ve done your reading, tenth grade. All three stages in your school life will serve quite nicely. So when the substitute teacher asks, the responses from your class were as follows: the first two from rogers, the third, a scott and the fourth and fifth, a collaboration between a clark and a scott.

Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Let’s listen to music while the more fastidious among us (no, not a bad thing, roger, not a bad thing). The selection today is inspired by Phyllis from an early morning conversation.

Alright, back?

The most useful thing to be derived from an understanding of the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine:

We, all of us, live in a world, experience a reality, that is, to a small but significant degree, personal. Nothing exotic, psychotic or otherwise weird. Simply personal. (Here, try this: you and I are standing on the sidewalk across the street from a popular local restaurant. It is the beginning of lunch hour and the restaurant is already crowded. Just as I’m about to say something about personal reality, we hear a voice. It is an acquaintance of both of us. Their tone is one of surprise. Neither of us believe that quality. I smile. You laugh.) In the scenario in parentheses all three people see the same restaurant. All three experience the ‘lets go have lunch’ quite differently.

That is half of the ‘immediately useful’ thing.

The other half is that we all experience the world from one of three perspectives, that of:

the Outsider(clark)
the Predator(scott)
the Herd Member(roger)

The nature and character of the three predominant worldviews is distinctive and different. Understanding all three will allow you to gain a sense of how the three luncheonnaires above are experiencing the prospect of crossing the street.

Learn the worldviews and you will be in a position to know the other person better than they know themselves. All of what you need to learn is in this site. Maybe next post we’ll consider the nature of the three worldviews.

Miz Cynthia!!! Miz Cynthia!!! I know! I know where the teacher left off!!!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 28, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Somewhere not near land, where the clouds serve as mountains and earth never rests.
(Not my photo, thanks to whoever)

This is the time of the week for reflection on the week, (or month, fortnight, score, or all the way back to when the beginning of the school year drew nearer with each morning that was cooler than the week before), and note those things for which we are grateful.

Our host, Kristi is the provider of a place where those so inclined might take a moment to share (and by doing so, further reflect upon), the people, places and things in their lifes that make them think, ‘Hey, not bad. Not bad at all.’ (And other, perhaps more sublime, expressions of gratitude.)

1) Phyllis who found the hidden glasses tiny-screwdriver repair kit (talk about coals to Newcastle! (See Grat #2)

2) Glasses needing fixing (and the tiniest of tool kits)

3) Chapter 6 of ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’ Readers of ‘Almira’ and other stories know how fond I am of researching the ‘real’ world in the service of writing a credible story. Nothing earth-shaking in that. I knew ‘the bad guy’ of the story was a giant corporation. It’s chasing Starr because she has something of theirs. I decided on Bayer AG to form the model for my antagonist. So I cranked up the Wikipedia machine and read a cursory history. Two words: damn! (That is all I have to say, other than, ‘You can’t make this kind of stuff up!’) As always, the new Chapter is at the Facebook and on my blog at: ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’.

4) Taking Una for a walk on a Friday afternoon:

5) Toiling in the fields, tending the crops. (The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, provided you believe the fence on the right is fifty feet tall.)

6) On the drive to Wakefield last evening, we reached the ocean and the Towers (in Narragansett, RI)

7) Did somebody say, “Where’s a aww photo of the indigenous fauna?!”

8) Returning, as we close out this week’s TToT, to the ‘coals to Newcastle’ theme, here is a rose (with thorns) and a total goth plant (thistle), showing them how it’s done.

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music video: nothing yet, stay turned.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 24, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story

Denise is the host. The rules (and title) are all, ‘six is the minimum and maximum sentence count’.

(…Weird one this week. Susan Zutautus over at Susan’s Place posted a haiku post… not sure if it’ll be here at Six-ville. Though I have never been tempted by poetry (writing or, even, reading…’cept for the cool ones like ‘The Second Coming’ or ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ or …. anything by e.e. Cummings) but haiku… well seeing a haiku is a little like being a senior in high school, two beers into a graduation party and standing on the roof of your friend’s house looking down at the in-ground pool.)

So, assuming lines count as sentences, this week for my contribution.

Prompt:

WAVE

The world, bound by time,

One pebble dropped, God’s hand open.

One wave, all shores touched.

Mists of dawn, life begins,

Reaching out, finding others.

New pebbles, one wave.

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘inspired by our friends at ‘Spiritual and Intuitive’

July 22, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia, made a comment on our weekend post at the TToT. She has a gift for finding opportunities for insight in the most everyday of occurrences. I decided to paste her comment (below) and write my reply, thereby creating a semi-impromptu post.

I think about my next car and debate with myself finding something that isn’t too small, might have four wheel drive when I need it, but scoots around like it’s in a horse race. Now that makes me wonder if clarks drive different cars than scotts who might drive different cars than rogers. It would seem the scotts have the flashiest cars, the rogers have all the Subarus (with the exception of Phyllis), and the clarks might have the ones with the gadgets and allow them to zip around unnoticed.

Good point about cars and the prehensile tendencies** of the three personality types, Cynthia!. And so, I will advantage myself of this opportunity to speak of ‘the Everything Rule’* as observed in the context of your comment.

A note to new Readers: the three worldviews are not a list of mere traits and habits of a person, they are three distinct (though overlapping) realities. In the context of the Wakefield Doctrine, we speak in terms of how a thing ‘manifests’. This is very much in contrast and distinction from what (we) might think (or do or feel) about said thing, (or occupation or avocation or any other process) In the case of Miz Cynthia’s comment…a car. As to who would drive what, our first thought should be to: how do ‘cars’ manifest in the reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers)?

Excellent example with the Subaru! This also provides an example of the fun and power of the perspective afforded us by the Doctrine. All you would need to do is see one tv commercial. Emotion. Security (for family). Say it with me now, “clarks think…scotts act and rogers…..”

Back to the Everything Rule. It is valuable because it, (the Rule) reminds us that here at the Doctrine we are talking about realities, not interests, appetites or predisposition. To a roger, a car manifests as a vehicle (yes, in all uses of the word) for oneself and the family unit. rogers do not prefer (by and large***) Subaru merely because of their extra thin sheet metal, fade-prone paint jobs or even their high maintenance costs. They do because they are presented as safe and deserving of love. That is how ‘car’ is manifested in the life of the Herd Members.

scotts? Fast, loud and/or obnoxious. Sure, a Porsche manifests congruently with that description, but so does a pickup truck. Nothing says ‘Hey!!’ clearer than a jacked up F-150 with a bad muffler and a 100dB horn.

…er about the clarks. Depending on social context… ‘the best that (their) money can buy’. cars, to clarks are like haircuts and shoes. They speak to the world about who the person wearing them might aspire to be.

*the Everything Rule: ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another’

** my attempt at a rogerian expression

*** the Wakefield Doctrine is not engineering. You gots your predominant worldview and your secondary and tertiary aspects. The first defines the world at large. The second two offer insight into the range of accommodations a given individual might be permitted in their effort to get through life.

Thanks Cynthia! Y’all need to head over to Intuitive and Spiritual. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.