Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.
Celebrating eighty-nine years of continuous weekend posts, the TToT was foundered by Lizzi and her ten co-hosts. A time, we might add when the internet, in it’s technological infancy connected it’s web of dedicated pioneer members with a variety of barely functional media, including mimeographs, heat-sensitive printer paper and a rubber cone to capture the torrent of information, before it could spill all over the floor. Her efforts are understated and greatly appreciated. (The most impressive thing and what surely should be an automatic Grat Item for contemporary Gratitudicians, Lizzi started by doing lists of fifty things… (yeah, that was 5 zero things)… sensing the frailty of future followers fear of falling down before such a feat…. (alliteration con’d)
She relented, gave us Ten and, walking down a twisting, cobble-footed lane in Stokes Poges one Sunday in early October in 1973, disappeared into the madding crowd.
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
5) Instagrain project. The real estate business encourages practitioners to build a presence in ‘the social media’. So we did. @clarkfarley.csr over at Instagram. We do something a little different. Hey! they audio on the clips are muted by default (of course they are! lol) Stop by, click like and follow! (only have, like, four or five reels, but they’re fun*)
6) …just a photo
7) something, something
8) & 9) an old, old… did we mention old Christmas post
Merry Christmas!! and a Happy… (insert preferred religio-culturalis-tradito-centric greeting) -[here]- !!! from the Wakefield Doctrine
December 24, 2012
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
There is an old saying, ‘repetition is the most efficient form of creativity‘, to which we will add, ‘you can say that again’!
Given the enormity of the holiday, we would be remiss in our self-imposed duty to provide one more insight into human nature from the perspective of our little personality theory, if we did not tell you why Christmas is a holiday that resonates with all three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine. But, due to the increasing influence of our rogerian aspect, let us first extend the heartfelt wishes of those of us here at the Doctrine, to those of you out there in Reader-ville:
To all of our Readers and Visitors:
Angola…Feliz Natal e (feriados felizes do específico da cultura)!
Australia..Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…on the barbe
Belgium…Vrolijke Kerstmis en Gelukkig (kweek specifiek) Vakanties!
Bosnia and Herzegovenia… Čestit Božić i Srećna (specifična kultura) praznici! (I hope!)
Brazil….Feliz Natal e (feriados felizes do específico da cultura)!
Canada…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…eh?
China…愉快的聖誕節和幸福（文化細節）假期！
Columbia…¡Feliz Navidad y Feliz (cultiva específico) Feriados!
France…Joyeux Noël et Heureux (cultiver spécifique) les Vacances !
Germany…Fröhlich Weihnachts und Glücklich (kultivieren spezifisch) Feiertage!
Ghana…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…(!click!)
Greece…Καλά Χριστούγεννα και ευτυχισμένο (πολιτισμός συγκεκριμένες) διακοπές!
Ireland…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…go bragh
Israel…חג מולד שמח ושמח (תרבות ספציפי) חופשה
Italy…Buon Natale e Felice (la cultura specifica) le Vacanze!
Philipines…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays!…(send translation-o)
Slovenia…vesel Božič ter vesel ( kultura poseben ) dopust
Spain…¡Feliz Navidad y Feliz (cultiva específico) las Vacaciones!
Sweden…Munter Jul och lycklig (odla specifik) Helgdagar!
United Arab Emirates…عيد الميلاد قد وسعيد (ثقافة معينة (العطلة?! (dude!)
United Kingdom…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays! pip! pip!
United States…Merry Christmas and Happy (culture specific) Holidays! y’all!
Zombieland….^(*&^%^,,brains!^(&*^*&^&!!(Special Greeting Update! courtsey of our friend Melanie Chisnall over at Scribbles and Smiles )
South Africa…Geseende Kersfees!Apologies to any whose (translated) Greeting comes out as “I hope the dog eats all your fish..” or something. It’s the damn internet, I want to click once and get an accurate translation into any language in the world. What’s un-reasonable about that?
The enormity of the Christmas holiday? It has clear appeal and, in fact, resonates strongly with all three personality types:
- clarks: who love to give…selflessly, and to an extreme, we will give everything that we (think) we have to give, in the hopes of becoming so much a part of the group…which is, in fact all, of you ‘out there in the world’…that we will no longer consider ourselves the Outsiders
- scotts: who love to give because there is so much life and activity inherent in a celebration such as is manifested by Christmas, that all they can do is run around and bark at the lights (or bark using lights), chase down and herd those who gather together on this holiday, never stopping, until without warning, they drop into a sleep, like a 2 month old puppy… wherever they last stood, eyes closed, teeth showing, legs twitching as the chase continues in their dream with the occasional wag of the tale, showing their essentially good natures
- rogers: a tradition and the participation of nearly all people, Christmas has everything they could want and to top it all off, there is the second most feared manifestation of ‘referential authority’ there is: the gift giver who keeps records, verifies those records and rewards and punishes behavior, all by standards that, while thought by most to be understood, are never explicitly stated.
So to all our friends (new and old), those of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine say, ‘Yo Ho Ho’!
10) Secret Rule 1.3 You know what they say about medicine and Secret Rules…(well, rather than the boring, ‘What doesn’t make me…’ trope and ask M. Ali: “I’m so mean I make medicine sick”.)
* hey, if you got to Grat #5 then you’ll probably enjoy our effort to be mainstream in the social media**
** oh yeah, thanks for reminding us! It is common knowledge that we’re always trying to learn about writing and such… so, when it comes to doing the Instagram thing, while it is a video and sometimes we speak, there is a section under the video for words. We thought, ‘hmm, this is a video, so the viewer will need little help in appreciating what is on their visorphone. Then it came to us, one word: ‘Unreliable Narrator’. lol We will admit to struggling with this rhetorical device in our current stories. But, hey, this is a far more fleeting interaction with Readers Viewers
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A blessed and beautiful Merry Christmas to you!
Same to you and your family
Thank you, Mimi
Merry Christmas to you, Phyllis and Una!
Wait a minute! scotts and Christmas. The lights! Drove by a house last night would give Clark Griswold a run for his money, lol. No, it did not have the roof lights but! it was impressive just the same 😁
scottian outdoor lights and decoration, translated: HEY!
Master Weaver, we have a saying that a heartfelt wish is never late or early…
So, to you and your family (of course that includes Una)
I wish health, joy, love and whatever you wish for yourselves to meet you sooner and in fullest .
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Thank you for everything, including (but not restricted to) the motivation, the understanding/tolerating of the Gatekeeper, barking “write” in the middle of the night, the Six Sentence Cafè and Bistro and Two Guys and a Girlie…where we mutually flatter ourselves instead of engaging in writing diverse, unexpected stories and engage in discussion with people around the world without claiming we are the sole arbiters of the Canon…🙂
Same to you and them*
This here virtual world here retains it’s more magical qualities** on and because of the good intent of it’s participants. I’ve been fortunate since arriving here of encountering such people.
Canons??! We get Canons?!!? wtf! Why didn’t anyone tell me would could have canons! Damn, all this time I’ve been fretting over my writing abilities and I could have employed artillery.
*acquired from reading a couple of writers, Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent presumedly authentic American southwest dialect/patois “So, how’s your Mom and them”
** referring primarily to the personal, interpersonal and social aspects and potential
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Clark!
Same to you and everyone there… (totally jealous, cause you get to have Christmas in Summer)
Thank you, Chris
…and the best of all possible New Years to you and cliff