Month: August 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 7, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

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

While the subject of whispered conversations, during which the character of the participants were taken to heights they would never assent to and, who’s exploits (both individually and as that first Group of Ten), fascinated most children and an increasingly small percentage of adults, modern scholars consider the story of the creation of the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop to be right up there with cultural events including: (the) Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, an adolescent’s first viewing with the full length proto-music video, ‘Hey Jude’ and King Canute’s encounter with the tide.

Be that as it may, below is the list this week of those people, places and things that instigated revolt against ennui and apathy.

Post-contemporaneous comment: That Hey Jude video? Anyone more than thirty years beyond the realm of youth, you’d be well-advised to make a promise to yourself that you accept that memory and reality are nothing more than neighbors in a sprawling suburban development. You come home from work and something is different, never mind, returning for a visit after forty or more years. Remember, cognitive dissonance is the secret whoopee cushion that god snuck in Adam and Eve’s luggage as they boarded the train to East Eden. Ignore it and enjoy the music.

1) Phyllis—⇓

2) Una ——————————————————————————————-⇑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) aww moment courtsey of 21st C technology

5) ok New Readers? ‘oTeers? ProTip: The BoSR/SBoR does permit getting all Dewey Decimal on your Grat Items, so let’s hear it for the gratitudial qualities of phones with cameras and online platforms on which we can post.

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

7) Our host Dyanne … who, of late, has been all over the virtual place, posting on the Fbook, contributing to the Six Sentence Story ‘hop and generally re-embracing her ‘Tasmanian Enthusiasm’* for the virtual world.

8) Our Garden of Triffids is coming along

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules)

* not a ‘real’ term, rather a wink to the cognoscenti among us, (and, an excuse to use the word), cognoscenti being a word way too cool to not use), ya know?

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 4, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise.

You should write one and link it up.

(It’s ‘fun’.)

This is an Ian Devereaux week. Below is the next installment in the serial mystery, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’

Previously, in the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf…

Since before he knew what either was, Ian Devereaux viewed life as a jigsaw puzzle. It didn’t take long to notice that many of the cardboard polygons were bent and blunt-edged, taunting suggestions of a time when they easily fit together. Not until the funhouse distraction of adolescence came and went, did he begin to suspect he might be stuck with a puzzle full of missing pieces. Contrary to the black-light and patchouli philosophy of dorm room wall posters, the joy of living was less the journey and more scrambling to figure out life before someone announced, “Time is up, put down your pencils and hand in your answer booklets.’

This week’s prompt word:

NET

I stepped up out of the fo’c’sle, onto the deck, and felt good.

The sky to the east had begun to glow; the ocean was almost flat, lethargic reflections in mercury, mirroring overcast, and so, there was no horizon; the effect was not so much disorientation as simplification: ‘You are here, everything else has not been assigned a location’.

Leaning back against the black-iron gallows frame, I put one foot on the rail and tried to talk myself out of bumming a cigarette; ten years without one, up against the aroma of the coffee in my hand and dried seaweed smell permeating the wood structure wasn’t much of a bet, fortunately the bullhorn speaker on the front of the wheelhouse came to life with a low-fi squawk and a smoker’s cough, “Time to haul back, Ian, time to go to work.”

Knowing better than to interrupt the practiced dance of hydraulics, winches, ropes and a shifting deck, I watched as the crew began the second most dangerous part of the business of commercial fishing, bringing the net around to the side of the boat, up and over the rail and releasing a ton or two of fish and bycatch, the first, of course, being casting off from the dock; hearing myself in my head, I felt the spell that I’d cast over my life seven days prior begin to fracture; it was not a good feeling, even in the fading ink of a reluctant memory.

“I said, I’ll call you when I get back,” the First Class ticket, courtesy of my client, Leanne, was a neat stack of torn paper on the desk in my hotel suite; I frowned away the ‘why?’ that was voicelessly screaming and waited, the abyss growing up from its secure hiding place.

The silence on my client’s end of the line made my stomach drop, sucking the preceding, totally reasonable conversation, down a hole, delicate strands of the relationship streaming behind, like soap froth circling the drain of a kitchen sink; the familiar tug-of-war between guilt and self-loathing pulled at a part of me that didn’t exist, except when it did, and I put the phone in the cradle.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

OK, everyone knows how we’re constantly advocating for keeping energy levels at a productively elevated point. Energy, for our purposes might mean, ‘Sure, I can take on one more task’ or ‘I’m tired, but it’s a good tired’ or even, (and more telling), ‘I know it’ll feel good when I finish, so let’s get to it.’

For us, here in the realm of gelatinized thoughts and ideas reduced to a description that will allow another person to see their own, personal manifestation, (of the thing/process/improvement), so reduced to language and preserved in the rhetorical zoo.

Anyway, what prompts this very short post is something I read in a description of a product in the hardware store.

New Readers? Quick context. There was a time, in the early days of this blog, when we were writing every single day. Sometimes more. There was, of course, a lot to talk about. Well, one thing to talk about: the Wakefield Doctrine. But what kept the words coming was that the Doctrine, and those who followed this blog, were all kinds of enjoying different examples of the principles, additional ways to detect the three predominant worldviews, i.e. clarks(Outsiders), scotts(Predators) and rogers(Herd Members). It seemed that everything tied in. (Well, of course it ties in to the Doctrine. The Wakefield Doctrine is nothing if it’s not an additional perspective on our world and the people who make it up. Which is, duh, everything.)

In any event, there was a time when all it took was a commercial on the TV or a passing, casual remark or, in today’s example, a description of a product in the hardware store.

I read it. I laughed out loud(lol) and it resonated with that ‘Write a post’ thing in my world. Here:

‘What’s so special about the Victor Smart-Kill Electronic Mouse Trap? Not only does it use a humane, high-voltage shock to eliminate mice in seconds, but this innovative trap also alerts you of a catch via your mobile device…”

So, tell me you wouldn’t be all, ‘Damn! I gots to let everyone else know about this!’

Seeing how this harkens back to an earlier time, lets have Huey take us out…

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 1, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Only fair to warn you, the Ten Things of Thankful blogpost that follows is a bit out there, even by Doctrine standards.

(Full Disclosure: It’s Friday morning, top of the day. Concepts and ideas for the weekend’s post tend to fly around our mind like fireflies that grew up on the shores of Lake Amphetamine. The brighter the flash of biolum, the shorter the life span. Usually the light obscures the obstacles ahead, but, you know, Lake Amphetamine? In any event, sometimes the attraction of an idea defeats the oversight that seems necessary to creating something that has wider appeal than the interior of freshly-caffienated brain.)

When the Foundress gave us the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop, back on the Eve of the Great War, she also provided licence to participants to be as creative as possible.

OK to start, disregard the Full Disclosure, it’s Sunday evening, here is the Land that Time Misplaced. (Sure, sorta like Neverland, ‘cept with adults trying to remember a childhood that holds one of the keys to making sense of the present and near-term future. You know, like most blog writers).

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) hey! Never guess who I run into all the time on Instagram, Christine! … one of the original co-Hostinae. She happens to follow ‘Where in South County are we?’ Which is a twice-weekly thing I do as part of the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing(Grat Item 6) that I do as part of my job (Grat Item 5). Check out Grat #9 here in the list it’ll take to you to an excellent old TToT post.

5) the work I do provides me with a laboratory for my efforts to self-improve myself and study the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine, all while earning a living.

6) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing is a weekly, live real estate program, that I do with my associate, Denise.

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Its a place to read the best of contemporary flash fiction.

8) the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

9) a link to a TToT post from August 3, 2013 Go enjoy a post from the earliest of days of this bloghop, back when Lizzi was the youngest member of a clandestine group working in Bletchley Park, deciphering Axis codes.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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