Month: October 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 9, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the TToT.

A weekly exercise in gratitude. Being one of the original co-hosts, charged with the task of writing a post every week by the Founderess, Lizzi, sometime it feels like learning Spanish and moving to la Mancha might not be a bad thing. There are weeks when my typing fingers look more at home on the errant knight in the excellent the excellent image/print at the top of this post.

We do, for this week however, continue our crusade, as clumsy as it might, at times be.

New Readers/participants? Pro Tip: the expression of gratitude, like many of the other manifestation of the Path (aka the way), is an end in itself. Using the TToT as an example, the act of citing grats, (as the written expression of that which incites a state of gratitude is referred to in these pages), necessitates embracing the power of perspective.

For this week:

1) Una

2) Phyllis (Stage left, towards where Una is smiling. She enjoys the morningtime. Una, not (necessarily), Phyllis)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine which owes it all to the crazy effective magic of perspective.

4) Sufficient physical health that makes possible, however by a thread, the Great Stump Dig 2021 (Photos in Grat 7 and Grat 8)

5) Serial Stories. ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ and ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop the place for flash fict…

7) Starting point today

8) Ending point today (10:53 am)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 which states, in part, ‘[h]aving gone to all the trouble to type out the numerals one through ten, the least you can do is put something that, if there is no photo, can be referenced to a photo, as in ‘coming soon’… ibid, op.cit. and et.al.’

music:

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 6, 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.

Previously in the Whitechapel Interlude…

Two young people, a land that held the darkness inherent in nature close to it’s bosom and an ageless man who thrived on the former and sustained by the latter, drew closer together, as the tide to the shore. The approaching meeting of the three was to the benefit of many, at a price to the few.

This week’s prompt word:

FOUNTAIN

The fountain, ornate rings of carved basalt stacked in the center of the courtyard, exerted silent control on all visitors to Castle Noctis Ostium by virtue of it’s location; those from without, brandishing ambitions to march straight into the marble-arched entrance, as well as those who would flee the darkness within the towering castle, seeking to out-run their terror and despair were stopped and directed to trace a silent arc around the jet of water, before being permitted to realize their fate; this indefinable piece of a circle was the terminus for the carriage carrying two emissaries from the Order of Lilith.

Gathering his determination to make his superiors proud, which in young men often is manifested in moving before introspection can spoil the moment, Anselm jumped from the carriage even before the final wooden wheel spoke could strike twelve, finding himself one step behind the coachman who, mute through the two day journey, was standing in front of his team of horses, whispering praise and assurance, sibilants shaped into foreign words that tumbled from each stroke along their withers, spilling to the cobblestones like the secret nods between war veterans, long since returned from battle.

Sarah, with the impatience of a child who has dutifully practiced exercises at the piano, stepped from the carriage seeking someone or something to make the previous two days of boredom justifiable, pent-up energy expressed in all the ways people, especially the young, connect to the world; smiling at the servants, walking towards the dark-carved doors, one hand sampling the texture of the carved-marble and silently-entwined ivy; without a glance back to her companion, she was an arm’s length and a chaste embrace from the doors when Count St. Loreto stepped out into the courtyard.

As much the good host as the lord of the manor noting the enthusiasm of emissaries sent on a diplomatic mission, Cyrus St. Loreto stood in the shadow of his castle and waited; there was a solemnity in his stance that echoed ancient priests before crowds of supplicants, recognizing the balance of power between the guest and host.

Anselm hesitated and frowned; Sarah moved forward, a smile distracting the unwary or inexperienced from her eyes, as both turned to face the man they crossed the Continent to meet; Count St. Loreto stood with a stillness and composure that, were one in a state of mind to note it, resulted in the distinction between the stone and glass structure rising behind him to become less distinct, as if he was an extension of the castle more than it’s occupant.

“Welcome, my young friends, allow me to make you my guests; your trip has been long, my staff will show you to your rooms and tonight we will dine.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 4, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

It might be smart, (and certainly narrativistic*), to open this post with: ‘the original goal of this blog was to expose as many people as possible to the fun and (the) benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine’. That would be accurate at a certain level, but would be leaving out an awful lot about the experience of writing these posts**.

The reason for starting this blog is lost in the silent, disorienting applause of hitting ‘Publish’ on the first post.

(Certain friends might mark the start of the magic that has brought us to this, the 2378th(ish) Wakefield Doctrine post as ‘the conscious decision to begin typing’.)

Be that as it may, while the Wakefield Doctrine has not, as of yet, become a household name, there are new Readers who encounter us and, perhaps not writing in and asking ‘Hey! I saw some photos on this page. Where does a Reader have to go to get a hat for our own damn heads?’ Stick around for a while. As the old blogger once said, ‘As long as there are new Readers, a blog will never disappear’.

Enough with the metaphysics!

The thing of it is, the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine will provide a person with one more perspective on the world around them and the people who make it up. If you nod and think, ‘ok, can’t be any harm in that and maybe this one will be the one’, we’ll say, ‘Welcome clark‘.

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A little insider info for the New Reader: doesn’t matter what you or anyone else thinks, if you can see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world today we can promise two things: a) you’re a clark or you’re a scott or roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect*** and 2) there’s a real good chance you won’t be able to not see the clarks, scotts and rogers in your world now. But stick around and we promise you won’t stay angry.

Quick bullet point of the three ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine:

clarks(the Outsider) if you wake up thinking about the world ‘out there’ awaiting you, you’re probably a clark. You don’t mind being different from everyone you know, as long as it doesn’t become a topic of someone else’s conversation. You know you’re weird, but have friends that don’t seem to mind. And, besides, today might be the day you find that missing piece of knowledge that will tell you how to be a real person.
scotts(the Predator) you don’t wake up the way other people you know… they seem to take their time and wait to see what happens to them next. You don’t think you’re different from ‘most everyone you know, in fact, it kinda makes the day more exciting, if you think about it. Which you don’t. Life is short, but doesn’t seem to be letting up, so you going to live the hell out the today.
rogers(the Herd Member) you get up at the best time, the world around you like a warm quilt, (with the occasional jerk pulling the covers off your legs or pushing the pillow too high). You know the Right Way and, while you worry sometimes, (quite privately), that you might not be up to the task of setting an example to your friends and co-people, you laugh at the notion that you will fail to show others, by example or reference, how to properly live.

ok, time to get back to our respective predominant worldviews. (Thats the term we use to designate the ‘personality type’. We use it because the Wakefield Doctrine is predicated with how a person relates themelves to the world around them (worldviews) and not because of some set of geno-inspired likes, dislikes and tropae**.)

* not a ‘real’ word

** interestingly, when first encountering the concept of blogging, and the blogosphere itself, my response was, “Yeah, so everyone will read about what I had for breakfast or my thoughts on the weather.”

I had another song in mind, but the one today showed up instead. The thing he does with (the character, if nothing else) of individual notes is simply amazing. yeah, a clark.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 3, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

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

1) Phyllis (fixing Una’s dinner, out-of-frame to the upper left of photo below)

2) Una (waiting patiently)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which, from our perspective, makes all thing possible.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) Serial Stories ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) Hypo-grat: End of Summer. Still, on the positive side, there are interesting/challenging yard projects. During last month’s tropical storm the bridge at the pond got lifted off it’s foundation by the flooding and moved. Items 8 & 9 document the underlying grat* of this Hypo-grat.

8) 1:44 Sunday afternoond

9) (Later that same afternoon)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* Mimi’s Exception Chapter 23 sec 1-7 in the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) that allows hypo-grats to count on a TToT (in part: “[w]e get that it’s a bad thing, but if you look, you will see it connected to a positive aspect of life… I’ll wait…go look!” )

music:

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 1, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

The first benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine: if we’re clarks, we now are certain there are others who share the same relationship with the world out there.

The second benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine: all of us have the potential to experience the world as do the ‘other two’ (worldviews), allowing us the possibility of identifying with everyone we encounter.

The third benefit of the Wakefield Doctrine: if you’re a clark, you can now be certain there are others who share the same relationship with the around around us.

(Yeah, thought to ourselfs, we thought, “Write something/anything from the perspective of the Outsider(clark). Any Reader, here more than once, will, if not a clark, i.e. a scott or a roger, will have a secondary clarklike aspect sufficient to smile at the brevity.”)

ya know?

(thanks to C. Palahniuk for the meme)

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