Month: December 2020 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 19, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Each weekend(ish) Dyanne goes out on the metaphorical porch and calls or whistles, (in-that-cool-New-York-fingers-to-side-of-mouth-way) that makes the boys fall in love and the girls grow insecure (and maybe, just a little, in love)… and those of us who frequent this sanctuary that Lizzi discovered and established as a virtual safe haven, (for clarks, people wandering the blogosphere and outliers… like I said, clarks), gather.

The doors open on Thursday and remain so, until the coming week.

The focus of activity, the theme, if you insist, is gratitude. The practice, (and therefore the practical outcome), is to encourage the discouraged, reaffirm the uncertain and, in at least one case, give permission to see where and what kind of adventure a blogger can find theyselfs entangled in, provided imagination, fingers and keyboard are given free rein.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine. well, jeez there ain’t nothin on this page that can’t be traced back to the Doctrine, as a tool to self-improve myself.

4) the 20 Minute Live Real Estate Briefing (aka So-what-you’re-saying-is-this-Wakefield-Doctrine-thing-can-take-a-bad-postured-mumbling-through-hands-at-face,-eye-contact-aversive-person-and-make-them-appear-for-all-the-world-a-normal-lifeform; on a live, as in, no-retakes, setting?). Yes. Yes, we are saying exactly that.

We did Episode 2 last Wednesday. Not bad. Haven’t yet got the process down to stream the live zoom over to the live Facebook, but we had a few people attend. Not the worst thing, this lower attendance, we like it here off-off-….off Broadway. At least until we polish the act. Come see us next Wednesday at 5:30. Somewhere.

5) Six Sentence Story Want to practice your rhetorical chops? Want to read some really excellent flash fiction? This the place.

6) ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ My two serial stories, appearing on alternating weeks at the aforementioned Six Sentence Story.

7) We shoveled the driveway (photo at top) without the aid of mechanical (or pseudo-mechanical devices). Take that reasonable and realistic assessment of physical capabilities…. lol One more traction-less year.*

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (Anyone out there, on the fence, but can’t shake the feeling that participation would do more for the rest of this weekend than getting a good news phone call from someone you haven’t heard from in longer than you can remember? Come on….send it in. A single grat (with preferred attribution) and I’ll totally post it right here.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3. From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) stating, in part: “…[t]he incipient completion of a list of Ten Things is eligible for inclusion (and accounting for) in said List (of Ten Things of Thankful); to occupy, by tradition, the terminal Grat.”

music vids:

* …booyah

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…for there ain’t no one for to give you no pain” (?!?)

December 18, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 08: Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay attend A Night With The Stars of Food Network at 79 Crosby Street on May 8, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Jude Domski/WireImage)

Let me begin with apologies to all (of us) who are exceptionally audio-repetitive sensitive (aka earworm) for the music vid below. I will assign credit/blame to Friend of the Doctrine Kristi Campbell.

She went and added a horse to her family unit. Don’t believe me? Well, that just a) proves you don’t know Kristi and 2) you’re a Roger. But thats not important now.*

…what is important, or what’s stuck in my mind since yesterday, is the topic of the Wakefield Doctrine and gender.

Whoa! Seeing that it is currently 9:29 am EST and …and! given that the music vid I posted has done to my edge what putting a Fabergé egg in a commercial clothes dryer with a bowling ball and twenty dollars of dimes will do, I’ll end it with this:

the Wakefield Doctrine is gender-neutral.

(it is also: age-neutral and culture neutral)

(When we have time, (and extra parentheseses**), we’ll discuss the topic in proper detail. Suffice for now, the Wakefield Doctrine is all about how the person, (lifeforms/being), relates themselves to the world around them. Gender, (and age and culture), surely influence how this relationship manifests/expresses. That said, it’s all in the relationship.)

* borrowed from one of the all-time (or is it, alltime) funniest movie, Airplane!

** not to mention a bag of grammatical stickons

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 16, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Denise is the host and she has one thing to tell you, “Write a story employing the prompt word and keep it to six, and only six, sentences (and) comment on each other’s stories and such.”

This is an Ian Devereaux week and so our Six will be the next installment in ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

This week’s prompt word:

CHANGE

We walked along streets that were old before there were calendars and pretended we were strangers; Leanne took in Wiesbaden’s subtly Russian architecture without comment, her face shimmering with an abstract intensity.

“What’s wrong?”

“Feeling mortal.”

“Damn… next to being in love, is there any state of mind that offers more promise or greater cost?”

Looking up at me with a sidelong glance, Leanne pulled my arm under her own and laughed, a silent invitation that made me feel closer than any of our nights of physical intimacy.

Standing on thousand-year-old cobblestones, we waited for the solid-state, web-connected traffic light to change; neither one of us in a hurry.

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 16, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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The one thing to know that makes all other things (regarding the Wakefield Doctrine and it’s practical value) fall into place?

All reality is, on a small but significant level, personal.

Nothing earth-shaking in that, right?

(errr…. hold that thought)

The Wakefield Doctrine proposes that there are three (and only three) ‘personality types’:

clarks: growing up as an Outsider, they search for information and knowledge (not necessarily redundantly) everywhere in their world. Possessed of an insatiable curiosity, they move among the social shadows, stepping out into plain view only under duress or Fate’s occasional trickery (‘Hey, here, you go first, I’m right behind you.’). Exhibiting an aggressive indeterminacy, clarks prefer camouflage to the broadened mane or odious scents of the other two personality types.
scotts: living life on the run, the Predator acquires (or dies trying) skill in assessing threat while working on their ability to sprint. For this personalty type, surprise is ketchup, tension is jalapeño sauce and life is what you make it (not how you interpret it or how well you get along with others)
rogers: the Herd Member. Of the three personality types, rogers are the least likely to appreciate the power inherent in this post’s original thesis, i.e. the nature of reality. Of the three personality types, rogers are the most powerful by virtue of this lack of discrimination… the true power of a tsunami is not the wall of water, it is the ocean that shepherds the power (of the earthquake), allowing it to affect the widest scope available

Well! This post certainly gets me in a frame of mind to go out there and function effectively in the ‘real’ world.

lol

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 15, 2020 By clarkscottroger

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The first attempt today to copy the first December 15th post failed in a most clarklike way.

(yeah, still looking for a topic)

Don’t know if I should be disturbed or concerned that it took going through all the years up to 2014 to find a post (that was written on a December 15th) that I felt was good ‘nough for you Readers out there.

Be that as it may.

Ah! Here’s the point I’ve been rummaging my sock draw to find… the effort to self-improve myself has, as we know, gone into a higher gear with the start of my ‘work project’. While an end in itself, from the perspective of my real estate business, it, perforce will require me to change (in a positive way) more than previous efforts.*

So, stay tuned.

Remember, back in the olden days when ‘reality shows’ were newly invented ways (I believe as a response to a writer’s strike…oh ho! the irony), and how they were actually just filming people doing stuff. As close to a documentary, if only for a very short time. I think it’ll be fun to think of this new project in those terms. So, just so you can see what my current level of development (“Come on! That ain’t no effort!! Gimme two more reps! You’re worthless and weak!”**)

Will try to link the latest ‘commercial’ for the project in this post. Check back later in the day.

[Later this day: wanna hear something weird (if not so much weird as an interesting insight into the developing style in these live Briefings?) I like the commercial better than the show.. lol Click here for the commercial for this week’s Briefing]

Ain’t this Wakefield Doctrine somethin?

In the meantime, lets read a post introduced by a most excellent doggie (Thanks to Kristi for the photation)

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Drexel

Two purposes for today’s brief Post:

to follow-up on an Item in Saturday’s Post that elicited several very good Comments

to see if writing a Post, (with a certain deliberate intent) can serve as a way to focus my outlook on the current day

because it’s fun and if I’m ever going to learn to do this writing thing as good as them folks I read, I guess I better practice, right?

The Item:

as a clark, I find that when I’m walking to the mailbox in the rain without a coat or in December without shoes, it helps me realize how important it is to appreciate what is. That I am not in a hospital bed, or in a wheel chair or in the house because I am not able to leave…. I find that I ‘enjoy’ the harsh feelings of the 30 degree morning in part when I can know that it is a very real possibility that someday I will be in a place where I look back on (these days) and wish to anything that I might again have the opportunity to do something as silly as walk to the mailbox without shoes or a coat in December.

The Comment:

Knowing cold does make one appreciate warm more. Maybe I need to walk to the mailbox in bare feet so I can appreciate the heat of the sidewalk in summer time? (Kristi)

It is an interesting way to remain grateful for what you do have and an interesting way to create memories to look back on. That walking in the cold to the mailbox. Maybe a little masochistic . (Fangboner)

It may seem odd for me to say that I agree with the first and (feel) the need to explain as to the second Comment.

This exercise (the walking, not the writing) is about leverage. In the world(view) of a clark there is a form of disconnect between the rational and the emotional. Not an absence of emotions and not a control of the rational. Both are quite there, simply not integrated…. wait, that’s getting too er clarklike.
Try this: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel. yeah! that’s better.
The world that I woke up to this morning is a world in which the rational is the medium of expression for me. While for, say Kristi, the world is, among other things, a world in which emotions are the medium (and, possibly the message). Fine. Both equal, not being compared as which is better, they just are that way.

You know that thing about how there is one predominant worldview and we still have ‘the other two’ within? This is what the barefoot thing is really about. I know that I ‘live in my head’. I know that while that is the way it is, it is not necessarily the best way to live. So, while I might know this, I ask myself how do I alter it? no, learning more about how to live is not the answer! I’m already learning the shit out of things. Anyone? Dyanne? ‘Stop thinking and just live!!!’ yes, that is one answer. Kristi in her Comment actually gives us the answer, in her choice of words. no, not the ‘knowing’ part. the ‘appreciating’ part. the emotional aspect of the experience.

(For a clark) to do what we’re talking about, requires emotional leverage. To find a way to generate feelings(emotions) in concert with knowing something.
I get that I should appreciate the day I have today. I understand that I should not act like I’m immortal today*. I know that the littlest thing I do and say and encounter and share today, may very well be a thing of priceless value to me someday. I know that there will come a time, when I’m on my deathbed and I (may) have a moment to reflect on my life. A life spent inside my head is not a bad thing, but it is not as good as a life spent thinking and acting and feeling.

ya know?

Thanks to Kristi and Fangboner and the others what Commented at the Doctrine this weekend.

* a reference to something that Castanada had his character don Juan Mateus say about living in the present and making decisions not as if I would get a chance to do it again, rather to act as if it were my only chance to act. At least that’s how I read it.

* there were a couple of business trips/conventions that I went on/attended that provided a context for a demonstration of applying the principles of the Doctrine to self-improvement.