Month: September 2019 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 29, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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Despite the years, causing smooth bark to be become mottled and pale, lichens finding a place to spread their lace, Ola’s tree still guards over her grave.

Weekend.

TToT

Ten (or so) examples of people, places and things that elicit and (as a possible side-effect of reading), stimulate a feeling gratitude

Host: Kristi

(ed. note: “You know how, sometimes, (well, ok, a lot of times), I’m all, the TToT posts from the Doctrine are prone to flights of…. randomized style, syntax and format? Well this week is so one of those. But the music vid is fun (‘the fro!! boss! the fro!‘) and the photos are, as always, laden with representations of the things I experience in my life that totally qualifies me for participation in the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.)

(New Readers? …nah, never mind, lol ask Kristi or Pat or Mimi or Lisa or Dyanne.)

One (and)Two: Equals Three

‘Of trees and treehouses and paths that lead home.’

Four through Six: makes being alive a life

Quick drive-by in the morning. Can do nothing but help gear-up for the work day.

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

The Case of the Missing Starr < br/> A serial novel. This week (below) is the link to Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Seven through Nine: Connections to world open both ways

This Space Available…

Ten: SR 1.9

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 26, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop. Hosted by Denise, it is a writing challenge/practice/exercise in which, those so inclined, submit their stories for consideration and the pleasure of being read by others of like-mind, talent and temperament.

Six Sentences is the limit to the length. There is no limit on theme or topic.

The prompt word this week is:

SCALE

The horizon, at first a mute grey, marking the banishing of the night, developed a lesion along its eastern edge; the rays of the sun now carnelian spears piercing the side of a once hopeful day. On deck, the last tow of the trip sloshes like a child playing in a bathtub full of liquid mercury as the bow of the trawler is turned homewards.

Despite having spent the past three days, (and nights), knee deep in doomed sea creatures. picking the money fish from the tons of by-catch, the deck is quickly cleared, the catch securely packed in ice in the holds; there is a relaxed haste to the final clean-up.

Standing upright, or, at least, the posture muscles and inner ear have agreed will serve as such in an environment that is anything except stable and level, the sea builds from the south; to call what surrounds the boat, ‘waves’, is as inadequate as describing the history of the earth as made up of ‘many years’.

Soon, huge rollers overtake the ship as it flees to the north, only to sink beneath the stern, and the boat rises in the air, accelerating for a balanced moment, an unlikely surfer on one among countless waves, if only for a moment.

The last chore, before heading below decks for food and sleep is to wash off the brocade of fish scales from high-visibility orange gear, now decorated like an urban casino, iridescent trapezoids sparkling in the deck lights, an unconscious reflection of the plankton that forms the first rung of life in the place men can only visit.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 22, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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TToT Founderinae somewhere near Newcastle (sorta)

Its another weekend for the place-in-the-world-that-didn’t-exist-until-Lizzi-created-it, the TToT. Hosted each week by Kristi it is an opportunity to share (or observe) what others have experienced in terms of people, places and things that elicit a feeling of gratitude. All ya need is a blog (and, technically, not even that) and the desire to see what that odd collection of people, over there, on the side, are doing, they seem to be laughing and looking thoughtful….

1) Una for providing a power of example.

2) Phyllis for providing a power of example.

3) Cynthia’s Rally we’re sure to reporting back anything we learn about how it went. Totally proud moment for my people.

4) work, it provides the opportunity, in addition to being one of those, ‘hey-ya-gotta-earn-a-living’ things, real estate allows for tons of chances to self-improve myself.

5) Chapter 14 ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’

6) The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) Surely the most fun set of rules since, say, Fight Club.

7) The Wakefield Doctrine, specifically rogerian expressions. (For a more complete, if not less smoothly written explanation, head over to the page on rogers.) rogerian expressions are manner of malapropism so distinctive in rogers as to serve as a primary identifying characteristic*. Where was I? Oh, yeah… Phyllis and I were talking yesterday and the cause came up for her to say something about ‘having an airtight story/excuse/alibi’. Instead, she said, ‘I have a watertight story/excuse/alibi.’ I said something to the effect, ‘that would appear to be a rogerian expression.’ We chuckled (it was a minor rogerian expression). And, seeing how everyone wanted to talk about the Wakefield Doctrine, (lol), I mentioned that one of the ways of knowing that you’re dealing with a genuine rogerian expression is that it is always met with an outburst of unintentional laughter… a shocked kind of response. It is peculiar to the world of the Herd. Examples: “I needed to give them bad news, but I wanted to avoid baby-coating it.” or “I heard it’s been released to purchase on DVD, but I’m waiting for the un-abashed edition.” and more recently, “I find that, when it comes to personality traits, real estate agents tend to be too self-absorbent.”

yeah, I know!

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE If any Reader would like to give the TToT a try, but doesn’t feel quite ready to commit to a full-on Ten Things list, then Item Eight is for you. Send in your Grat Item in a Comment and I’ll totally post it here. Be sure to add any information and attribution and such to your comment. We’re kinda big on the whole privacy thing. (Priv a cee as people over Lizzi’s side of the ocean might pronounce it).

9) * sure, why have to scroll way the heck down to the bottom of the post. Want the simplest way to determine the predominant worldview of another person?¹ Learn the characteristic behaviors and habits and style of the three predominant worldviews. Remember that these are not personal choices, they are the most appropriate response based on the world, as the individual is experiencing it. Observe your target person in a situation. Is their behavior consistent with one hoping to get by in the shadowy, fringe world of an Outsider, do they attack, (or run away), without the slightest hint of thoughtful deliberations or does it feel like, (this person), knows they gots all the time in the world, and everything will work out for the best. (You know those eye tests? The real ones in a doctor’s office with the chair that looks like a dentist’s office but there’s no where to spit and no sign of a chair-side assistant girl²? Its like that. Consider the three worldviews and which is clearer in the context of your observed subject. ‘Is this clearer than this? How about now. Is this one clearer than that…’ Like that, only with ways of experiencing the world.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

1) this, however, warrants a separate place (and effort to get here)… one of the earliest rules here at the Wakefield Doctrine was, ‘No one can tell another person what their predominant worldview is, at least not while claiming any Doctrine authority’. The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them. Of course, we do have fun identifying other people. particularly celebrities for the simplest of reasons: it helps illustrate the character and characteristics of the Outsiders(clarks), Predators(scotts) and the Herd Members(rogers). It’s just that you can’t go up to someone, say, Ken Burns and tell him, ‘Dude, you’re such a roger!’ (and, man, he is such a roger!) Its just that the whole point of the Doctrine is to provide us with an additional perspective on the world and the people in it. The Doctrine is not ‘The Answer’. It’s more like (f) in a multiple choice exam… right under (d) all of the above.

2) yeah, I know! seems kinda sexist and all but, (and I’m serial), does anyone out there have a dentist who has a chair-side dude? I’ll share the stats

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 19, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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Early start on this here Six Sentence Story here.

Our host is Denise and, each week, she provides a new prompt word.

We’re expected to write a story utilizing this word and make the sentence count come out to six. And only six.

Readers of these pages will recall several Six Sentences Stories that take place in the institutionalized horror of Mississippi’s Parchman Farms prison. This, only because I read a few sites that described the early days of the place. This week is similar, but worse. The photo at the top is courtesy of Wikipedia. Let them tell you the backstory of this week’s Six. On a more positive note, we get to visit a character and location from my WIP, ‘Home and Heart’.

This week, the word is:

REFUSE

Turning from the blackboard, the white cursive letters shaping a single word, ‘Heteronym’, Sister Cletus addressed the class, “Who among you young ladies and gentlemen,” she smiled at the repressed giggles, aware that children always find formality amusing, “would care to give us an example?”

Her eyes, blue opals at bottom of a spring-flooded stream, finely carved contours of her face worn into rounded folds like a snow drift in March, scanned the classroom.

In the kind of surprise common to a fatal heart attack victims or the onset of puppy love, her mind hijacked the suburban-clean faces and combed hair of the twenty-three pupils of St. Dominique’s fifth grade and replaced them with the hunger-grimaced faces that surrounded her as a child in Sisak, Croatia, at the onset of World War II.

A film of long-banished tears blurred the orderly desks in her classroom like the beginning of a motion picture, the return of focus produced a different scene, one of barbed wire, fear and adults with the souls of jackals.

Mercifully, her memory remained true to history, relief at being pulled from the line of children herded towards a filthy railroad car, echoed over a lifetime, was still powerful enough to break the spell, even as she heard the tall, vaguely feral man whisper, “Ne bojte se mlada Svetlana, poštedjet ću vas strahote današnjeg dana.“ (‘Do not fear young Svetlana, I will spare you the horrors of this day‘).

Sister Cletus’s return to the present was anchored by the sound of Zacharia Renaude standing up next to his desk, in the back row, “If we refuse to learn, will our minds will be nothing but refuse?”; for just a moment, the old nun and the young boy laughed in a language indecipherable to the rest of the class.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 17, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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Funny thing about coincidences, they’re there only if you’re willing to put the reasonable and rational view of the routine world aside and follow the bread crumbs. And the really cool thing of it is, the mindset suited to getting the most out of coincidences, (and their really hot sister, miracles), is grounded in the idea that we, ‘don’t have worry if it all feels all silly, even childish, just relax and enjoy the show’.

So, I was sitting at my computer last night working on the next chapter of The Case of the Missing Starr reading an article in Volume No. 6 of, ‘Image [&] Narrative’. The title of the article was, ‘Towards an Ecology of Understanding: Semiotics, Medium Theory, and the Uses of Meaning.’

The reason I was reading this article was because it was a search return on the word, ‘semiotics*’. The reason I was searching the word, semiotics, was to gain a sense of how the heck a person who actually understands ‘semiotics’ would sound. If they were talking to us. Or, in this case, writing. Not to us, to Ian Devereaux, the protagonist in ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’. (No spoiler alert needed, but in the upcoming chapter, Ian gets information he requested from Dr. Leann Thunberg, the head of the Department of Advanced Anthropology and Cultural Semiotics at Radcliffe.) Subsequently, I was searching for anything linked to semiotics, came across the article, and started to read. (It was fun! Mostly because it was almost unintelligible. The extent of my knowledge of semiotics, consists of, well, the word ‘semiotics’. That said, I am a clark. So reading the words of the article was every bit like watching a foreign language film without subtitles**. Fun in the ‘a view from afar’ sense.)

In any event, I was ploughing through the article when Phyllis walked into the room.

Without preamble, she began to describe her search for something to read among her favorite books and how all the bookmarks were stuck in books, except for one. And the one bookmark, the only one not already committed to…well, marking a book, consisted of a simple quote from the Bible. It was from like, Matthew, Seven-Eleven, the famous, ‘Seek and ye shall find.’***

However, that was not what Phyllis found interesting enough to tell me. What was, (interesting enough to tell me), was a connection that occurred in her head between the Bible passage and the video commercial for the clothes iron we bought to replace the old one. (Phyllis has an impressively developed sense of the mystical, miraculous and coincidental; she was laughing as she related her experience.)

I could do only what a clark would do. I found the commercial on the YouTube and we both laughed in our enjoyment. (Hint: its all about the background music. How can you not feel inspired to reach for greatness or as Loki said in ‘The Avengers’, (become), ‘burdened with glorious purpose’.

Here:

* noun 1. the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation.

** you know, like, those are attractive people doing interesting things in a place I’ve never gone…. I shoulda majored in that/ I probably should have traveled more back then/ Well, I do have a passport, nothing says I can’t learn the language/get on a plane/ do those things, right?

*** Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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