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

Yow! Still way strange world out there.* But the day is, to a large extent, as we would live it. That mostly suggests we avoid allowing fear to select the path we walk. Same world, same messed-up problems, but the choice of paths is ours. (My favorite writer in such matters metaphysic, Carlos Castaneda, has his protagonist, don Juan, say, ‘ The challenge for us each day is to find and walk, the path with heart’.  As with any good writer, that (phrase) offers a scaffolding for our own ideas and beliefs as much as it is an instruction for a course of action.)

As always, we start this weekly exercise by thanking our host for being here and inviting all to share the people, places and things that elicit the feeling of gratitude. Thanks, Kristi.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine just because

4) the internet in general and wikipedia (and the like) specifically. It is truly everything in the world a clark would enjoy. For instance, we’ve all heard the famous ancient Chinese curse, ‘May you  live in interesting times’. Seems like it’s not: ancient or Chinese. From what I read, the origin of the saying is more closely connected to …. ready? A relative of one of England’s Prime Ministers!  ….yes way.

5) * from the lead line of the introduction, a quick Wakefield Doctrine Insight. (If clarks as Outsiders, scotts as Predators and rogers as Herd Members doesn’t make you smile and think, ‘Yeah! Old Doctrine shit. Lay it on us!’ Then you would be well-advised to open another browser and come back here and do one of two things: a) read the ‘About’ page and/or ‘What is the Wakefield Doctrine’ 2) search in the search box for any post from 2011 to 2014 or ’15 and read away (we wrote about the Doctrine incessantly back then), or c) read this post or this one

In any event, the asteroid is to remind us of one of the crucial characteristics of clarks, in comparison to scotts and rogers, i.e. how we perceive the world at large. Very simply, to us, the world is ‘out there’. Apart from us. To be accurate, it’s more a matter of us (clarks) not being a part of the world, at least the way that everyone else seems to be. That’s why, of the three, it is only a clark, upon waking, will consider their options when they must deal with the world ‘out there’.

6) the Hobbomock Chronicles  this week we’re already at Episode Eleven! (Good thing I’ve decided that there will be ‘Books’ making up the Chronicles. We’re currently reading Book One of the Hobbomock Chronicles, even though I haven’t titled it so.) Come on back and check in, around afternoon time. The link to Episode Eleven will be live.

7) Watcha looking here for?  lol, very good! If you followed the trail back up here, my compliments and gratitude. While the (whatever you call the footnote designation where it’s a little number next to the last word of a reference) was not marked, I thought, why not? These guys are not put off by a little roundabout, meandering trail to a point that may or may possess a shelf-life sufficient for everyone to stumble upon it. In any event, hope you are enjoying the music, all credits to the creator of the video and/or the artist who wrote or otherwise pulled the music out of that place that does not exist for anyone other than those truly creative people. Which makes me think of an aspect of the Doctrine (yeah, I know, what are the odds?)… the Everything Rule. This ‘rule’ reminds us that the Doctrine is not really that weird. While the three predominant worldviews (clarks, scotts and rogers) are, in fact, separate and distinguishable realities, they all exist in a common world. And, the rule reminds us, no one of the three has anything exclusive to themselves. There are not things that only clarks do, there are not skills found only in one, there is not even qualities, like creativity as we started talking about in this item, that one has and the other two do not. The Everything Rule says: how these things, qualities, characteristics manifest is what is different among the three. And, so, creativity. All three are capable of being creative. How they experience (and then express) this quality is what distinguishes one from the other two.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) the picture at the top of the post? I was out showing a house yesterday and I thought, ‘Hey! This could be a Grat Item! What with being a real estate broker and having clients I enjoy working with, looking at interesting houses in a coastal community.‘ Sure, that works as an Thing of Thankful.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*  sorry, this astroid has been promoted to Full Grat Item, currently at Number Five (with a bullet)

Music:  In an uncertain space, musical aesthetically-speaking, so, since the Wakefield Doctrine, its ownself, allows for three predominant worldviews, far be it from me to not apply the same standard to this week’s music. In no particular order ⁷ relative to our three realities