Month: July 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 15, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Hosted by Denise.

Constrained by a required number of sentences: Six.

Previously, on the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf…

Dr. Leanne Thunberg, chair of Radcliffe’s Department of Advanced Anthropology and Cultural Semiotics, grew up with a three-part dream: become a world-respected expert, find the love-of-a-lifetime and raise the perfect family. The unremembered dreams waking her in the sunless-hours of the morning suggested that one out of three wasn’t acceptable. Unlike many who, confronting an intractable problem in life or a will-sapping tragedy, will dive into work, hoping to find solace in exhaustion, Leanne found peace in the classrooms and the ivy-cliffs of the campus.

Prompt word:

CENTER

“Doc T, yo!”

The language of the young, seeking, as any group might, it’s own linguistic identity, was always a struggle between anagram and acronym; like popular music of one generation to the next, it’s timbre meant for a sensibility that was the first causality of maturity.

Leanne stopped and turned, taking in the center of the quadrangle, streams of students between classes dwindling, in fits and starts, like an aging athlete trying to recover from a demonstration of technique to a class of freshman sprinters.

Her smile in return had the tone, if not the experience, of a mother watching her son burst into the kitchen with a gold-starred, thumb-smudged piece of homework; the pleasure in watching the unaffected enthusiasm as the young man closed the distance between them, loping gait, streamers of flannel and brown hair, brought a sense of hope disguised as amusement.

“Slow down, Caden,” Shared laughter served to mark kindred souls by their enjoyment of words and language, a passport that recognized no border gates, be they credentials on paper or wrinkles, tugging at skin.

Watching her favorite student approach, Leanne resolved to double her resolve to exercise caution in her search for the reasons behind a senseless death; this world, the one in which she was most valued, insisted she accept the fact that, if the future held the answers to the questions she valued, the young were the natural, native guides.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 13, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Let’s get all, practical-application, take-it-out-of-the-shipping-container, now what do I do with this thing, personality theory.

First thing: it’s about you, not them.

Second thing: everyone does everything, at one time or another

Third thing: there is no proper sequence, warm-up, don’t-hurt-yourself, sequence.

Read * Practice * Apply

(the perspective that is the Wakefield Doctrine is not an answer, it is (are) beneficial questions and, without quite constituting cheating, suggestions for alternative ways to experience the world and the people who make it up.)

And, as the old saying reminds us, “Eighty percent of success is just showing up.”

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Ten Things of Thankful -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop, created by Lizzi, following a walk alongside storm-battered cliffs, on the Manchester-Manchester England seacoast. Little did she realize how in a scant eight or eleven years, the bloghop that did speak it’s name would be hosted by Dyanne.

Now, at the beginning of the second decade in the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the gathering of words would continue.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which permits, (albeit, grudgingly), the remainder of this list of grats to qualify under a set of rules that would put the Queen of Hearts to shame, i.e. the use of hypograts. This refers to those people, places and things that occur to all of us, whether we want them to or not. (Mostly not). But the BoSR/SBoR maintains that we are all gifted with the transformative power of perspective. Which allows us to put things into a context that nets out positive.

4) The difference Time makes. Category: Harmless unless, that is, the question is asked, ‘But what other biases and prejudices are the necessary foundation for any given humor. (Precursor conditions of audience: sub-adolescent Y-Chromian, coming to age on the Eastern shore of Oceania.)

Exhibit 1:

5) The difference Time makes. Category: the foibles of previous generations hang on to the umbilical of nostalgia in the seemingly-innocuous panels of newspaper cartoons. Freely-available insight into the reality of different times in a given culture, if such would be your interest. And although it is very much ‘preaching to the elect’, all one need do is look back at what passed for humor, entertainment and standards for social interactions. Though we very much caution: it’s easy to think, ‘We’ve certainly developed as a society, we don’t have gladiatorial spectacles, at least not so far as to actually kill people in the process’. However, if we but look to recent history (20th Century), it’s quite apparent how tenaciously the past holds us in thrall.

Exhibit 1: Dagwood Bumstead, abused at work, with a King Kong of food obsessions. The guy can’t catch a break! His boss, Julius Dithers, has actually kicked Dagwood across the office; granted, Dagwood was sleeping at his desk. But still. And Blondie, totally passive aggressive enabler, has a catering business. Denial much?

6) the serial stories, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) the Six Sentence Story The place for flash fiction…as a writer or a Reader

8) this year’s Garden of the Triffids (so far)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 8, 2021 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 holds for only one truth in our endeavors: there must be six and only six sentences making up our stories.

Previously on the Whitechapel Interlude…

Anselm appears to have made a complete recovery from his impromptu journey through time. Mother Superior is cautiously optimistic that he has returned to the present alone and unaccompanied. Brother Abbott, like any other superior officer in an army, sacred or profane, feels relief, tempered with the sadness of the reminder that they were all expendable in the battle to save the Children of Eve from themselves. Sarah, in the way of her kind, visits the memory of her first encounter with them all.

This week the prompt word:

BOWL

“Life is not a river, it is a bowl; would anyone care to tell this group of would-be novices what that really means?”

Sarah’s face remained passively attentive, long having learned not to betray her delight at the wonder of the world around her, looking quietly at the others in the room; mostly young men, predominantly self-assured and confident boys, wearing their education like the drooping rows of medals and campaign ribbons on the uniforms of old, but un-scarred, soldiers.

One was different, he was smiling at the floor, clearly in an argument with himself and she permitted herself a sympathetic grin; her early childhood taught her to accept that most did not see, in the world around them, the things she did, as she watched his shoulder muscles fight with his arm, a hand shot up over the group.

“It’s a bowl because, no matter how crudely or cheaply constructed, the contents it holds will be sought by all, when they become hungry enough,” the young man looked around the group, and added, “Exodus 25:29”; the reference gave him license to smile even more assuredly, offering himself for the others to gather to and join.

Brother Abbott continued to watch the group; Sarah frowned, not certain if the bearded man had actually introduced himself upon his arrival and, ricochetting her own smile at the first young man, raised her hand, “Life is like a bowl because if we are to reach others, we must overcome the inward slope of the edge of our personal world, ever causing us to slide down to the middle which is the furthest from others and, reaching the highest edge, step away, leaving what we’re certain of behind forever.”

The bearded man at the front of the room, who wore the cowl of his Order like the robes of an exiled king leading his followers through the wilderness, smiled at the floor and said nothing.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine*

4) Six Sentence Story

5) serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

6) internet/21st C technology (have you looked around, at this post?!?! biggest un-deserved advantage to the marginally-talented since Magic Markers and cheap guitar amplifiers)

7) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) Giving us something to do with those great-smelling, brand new Magic Markers

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

9) * the most scottian of all holidays celebrated here in Oceania? Glad you asked! Here, reprinted from a post (better sit down)… nine years ago is what we had to say about the 4th of July:

Quick reminder about the Holiday tomorrow: If you do not know that July 4th is one of the most scottian of holidays, then you need to write in one of the Comment boxes below 50 times

“scotts love loud noises, it lets them believe they can have an effect on the world“.

Seriously, picture the coming Holiday:

takes place at the height of the Summer season

eating and drinking to excess is encouraged

minimal clothing allowed in virtually all public places (including churches and hospitals)

outdoor sports activities including chasing frisbees, being dragged behind a boat and the use of explosive devices (such explosives, that were it December instead of July, a visit from Homeland Security would be the immediate result)

…minimal clothing

So for you non-scotts reading this, three July 4th Survival Tips:

stay indoors

keep the lights off and the glow of the TV shielded from windows and doors

turn up the air conditioning and ….wear extra clothes

We hope that helps.

10) S.R. 1.3 [J]ust because the scotts are setting off explosions and drawing the rogers into a passion-nacre circles with sincerely innocent questions such as, “I value your opinion, is this bikini too small?” (err male scotts and scottian females), respectively…doesn’t mean you cannot cite further examples, provided sufficient documentation is produced…ibid.

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