Month: October 2019 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Morning thoughts with Cynthia…”

October 7, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

As much as my primary focus in these pages has, of late, been writing stories, (both Six Sentence Stories and TToT stories, arguably both fiction*), Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia, wrote a comment yesterday that is surely an opportunity to reflect on our little personality theory.

Ms. Calhoun, she writes,

It’s a good time of year for talking about the Stanley. Ooh, did you stay in it, or what it a day trip? I love haunted house shows, and ghost story shows this time of year. Now? It is a clark-thing? Not sure. That depends on whether you like fun scary shows, too. Or not.
It’s been a good journey, this modicum of not posting. Ah, I won’t have a post for tomorrow, I don’t think, but I will have a goodly amount of fodder for when I do post – soon. It’s just been nice to have a bit of a break. And you’ve seen that I’ve started a new lil project that I’m quite enjoying. You know me…I rest a bit and then start something new. Story of my life. I’m not sure what aspect of the three worldviews that compels me to come up with new projects for myself all the time, but here we are…any tao te ching for your tea time discussion today?

Let’s get to work!

(Quick Note for New Readers: three personal realities result in the development of three distinct ‘personality types’. Everyone has one, and only one predominant worldview (clark, scott or roger). However, we all retain the potential of ‘the other two’, sometimes to a level where that influence is quite apparent. There is a rule called, the Everything Rule, that states, ‘everyone does everything, at one time or another‘. What this means is there are no ‘only a scott would do that’, or ‘that is completely a rogerian job’. A clark, could be a cop. The thing of it is, ‘being a cop’ manifests differently in the personal reality of a clark than, for example, a scott (who, btw, are totally the best at being a cop in terms of the qualities useful in this occupation being so in sync with (the) qualities… celebrated in the world of the Predator (i.e. a Scott). You know, driving real fast while making a lot of noise, chasing fleeing people, shooting off guns… scotts is real good at that kinda stuff. If you want to know more, read the other parts of the blog or just ask. Back to Cynthia.)

Enjoy haunted houses? Of course, the Everything Rule suggests we consider first how an entertainment like ‘a haunted house’ manifests for the three… you know those shows on TV with titles like, ‘Real Haunted Houses of the Genuine Kind’ and ‘Sincerely Talented Hunters of scary and dramatic Haunted Houses’? (found on either the History Channel or the Science Channel because ….what the &*&$#, ya know?) the people in these shows are rogers. The people in the haunted house exhibits and displays, where someone or something jumps out at you to add to your enjoyment? scotts. The people who are drawn to a haunted house, especially those like the Stanley Hotel, well, here’s a hint: ‘You know, there is no proof that ghosts do not exist, you never know!’ lol

The topic offered by our friend that is most intriguing and will require me to return to this post later in the day. This is due to the fact that it, (the topic), being so appropriate to a discussion of the Wakefield Doctrine that my available time at this moment, (8:12 am), permits me only to pose/frame a question.

I’m not sure what aspect of the three worldviews that compels me to come up with new projects for myself all the time,

Of the three worldviews, we’re looking for the one in which the central feature is manifested by a drive to learn and a need for novelty… which of the three… hmmm

(Will be back in the afternoon. Jump in with your commentationing at any time)

* in no way intended as anything but positive, as a clark, I not only view reality as fiction, but as a WIP in which, sometimes, the author nods off and I get a shot at the keyboard

3:08 pm

…got a minute. Being a Monday mid-afternoon, allow me to continue as we look at Cynthia’s questions and how the Wakefield Doctrine might afford you of one more view. (This is, after all, the core mission/ambition of the Wakefield Doctrine, to make available one more way to perceive reality.)

The new projects syndrome our friend refers to is surely one of the classic good news/bad news aspects of the world of the Outsider (clarks). The good news is that it is a manifestation of one of the creativity of clarks.** the bad news it’s a process in the service of an un-satisfiable need. We create in order to find. Unfortunately we are trying to find something that doesn’t quite exist, at least not in the form that we have in our minds.

** true creativity as found in the reality of clarks is to bring into existence things that did not exist otherwise. this, in distinction to the creativity of rogers and scotts** In rogers, creativity manifests as reassembly, re-configuration of things already in existence, This is evidenced by the tendency of rogerian artists enjoying more commercial success than clarklike artists. scotts? well their creativity pretty much springs from their ability to direct the attention of those around them…. “Hey! Look! Its something you’re never seen before!”

** who said, ‘That’s the Everything Rule again!’? Very good.

https://youtu.be/X5r1ub00btE

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 6, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the weekly bloghop that invites all to ask the question, “Sure, things didn’t, like, totally suck this week, but was there anything in my last seven days that made me think, ‘Hey, that was cool.’?

The exercise of any gratitude bloghop, imo, is not only to encourage introspection, but to engender a certain perspective that, one can argue, is intrinsic to the experience of gratitude. It’s not, (again, imo) merely a matter of bookkeeping and record-keeping of life’s events and occurrences at the heart of a ‘hop like the TToT, it is the feeling of sharing another’s effort to consider the people, places and things that happen and occur in their lives that causes the Reader to think, ‘Yeah, that the spirit.’

To start the proceeding, a shout out to Kristi who has the not-so-easy-as-she-may-make-it-seem, keeping this here bloghop here open to all who’d participate or just plain stop by and read. Thanks, Kristi

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). This bad boy is the Solomon Stone of those of us who are very much into the blogging thing, but find, as is the nature of the game, at times lacking in fresh ideas. All it takes to advantage oneself of this powerful tool is the slightest remnants of memory of school days writing reports and term papers. That and be willing to employ a noun as a verb. op.cit, binyons, op.cit.

4) Speaking of the BoSR/SBoR, I will employ SR 32.5 that permits the exist and promulgation of Items of Hypogratitude. This week’s hypograt in two words: Autumn

5) after a bit of soul-searching* I’ve managed to publish Chapter 16 of my serial, ‘The Case of the Missing Starr’

6) * Mimi commented on the story, to the effect that she thought she would read it from the first chapter. The flaw to serial stories, especially when on reads it in real time and the interval is seven days or so, it a degradation of the immediacy of the action. That said, whether intended as advice or not, I found it helpful to re-read the story myself as I (re)-gained an appreciation of certain characters. Thanks, Mimi!

7) something, something

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE Man! there surely is a Secret Rule that would let me leverage this all-to-admirable Item into, like a whole TToT? (The answer is: Sure, if you want to create a Stream-of-Conscious sinkhole that may seem like something a wheelbarrow of fill will eliminate but, with others reading my words to myself, aka an act of self-generated gratitude. Well, the virtual world may not be as limitless as we’d like to believe.

9) how about an old Road trip vid? Sure, seeing how it is currently beyond Summer, lets go somewhere (in space and time) where it was/is even colder… Hey! Kristi Campbell lives out that way… (but not when the vid was made.)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 2, 2019 By clarkscottroger

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

Denise hosts the Six Sentence Story bloghop each and every week.

All interested are invited to write a story employing this word and keep the length at six and only six sentences.

Pretty simple, isn’t?

This week, the word is:

COAST

The exit signs glow quietly, inverted votive candles informing all that walk the corridors of the hospital that, in this place, there is as little need of a reminder of the position of the sun as a casino or a death row cell.

Settled in a field of white, the man’s face reflected the surrender of muscles, once stalwart allies, now as smooth as texture and tenor would permit.

The only light or sound in the room was courtesy of technology’s inability to conceive of mortality, as, with solid-state certainty, green-lit readouts insisted all was well with the only actually-living thing in the room; leaving nothing to chance, the equipment produced a metronomic beeping, the sound of a tin man’s heart.

If the man was awake, he gave no sign of disagreeing with the machinery that jealously maintained the continuation of life; in his mind, the one place he was alive and healthy enough, his attention was captivated by the sense of a threshold, a new point along the path he set out on a near-lifetime before.

Like the edge of the earth and the start of the sea, a threshold is all about where one is standing; whether rocky cliffs or softly flowing dunes, the coast that marks the end of land or edge of water is simply the point of transition, it is neither one nor the other, yet essential to both.

One floor up and a lifetime away, the maternity suite echoes the joyously-defiant sounds of life being brought from the quiet safety of the womb to a new shore, one of hard ground and sharp edges; the noise and the solidness of life is joined to darkness’s quiet embrace in a circle and by doing so, never ends.