Month: March 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Photo-prompt Phriday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 25, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! A new arrival on the shores of Bloghopencia.

So, we got an email yesterday (or, maybe it was today) from Jenne and C.E. inviting us to join in on a bloghop they were inspired to start. ‘Inspired’ is, imo, not hyperbolistic.

One of our hosts is crazy-lyrical in her prose and the other… let’s just say, ‘benignly-anarchistic. (lol)

The rules? A photo and a 250 word limit.

It’s fun and you couldn’t ask for better company. Please do not allow our being invited to affect your decision to join in. (Hey, like no one has ever failed to vet a mailing list and lived to regret it.)

Photo prompt:

The hissing came first.

His awareness of the sound was more threshold than renewed capacity. It was this hissing, and it’s near-but-undefined tone, that focused the world. Proximity being to self-awareness as breath is to life, so the sound transformed, quite without participation of the man, seeing into looking.

The rest of the man’s senses cascaded from this shift. While still heir to many additional ways to relate himself to the world around him, to look at his surroundings created a perspective that was uniquely his, rather than merely a characteristic of his surroundings; he was now himself.

Self-awareness, like the earth to a fertile seed, once stable, allowed the rest of his senses to come alive. The man began to remember everything other than the sequence of events that lead to half-sitting on asphalt, a warm wetness defining his skin. Moving eyes rather than head, he took an inventory of the objects, still without names or context, in his surroundings.

Twisted metal and spinning circles captured his first attentions, but were far too abstract to convey useful information. Light, as has arguably been the case since Genesis, did, however, take claim on his attention.

Resting on the same level as the man sat, like a fundamentalist preacher descending from his pulpit into the congregation, the traffic light claimed dominion over the man’s day for whatever remained of it.

The simplest of instructions manifested in primary colors: stop, reflect upon your place in the world and proceed.

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Just to make things ~~simple~~… easier, below are the links to the inaugural stories from our hosts.

Jenne: ‘Who Knows Best?

C.E. (hey, you’re the adventurous type, right?) ‘Crossroads‘

Doug Jacquier: ‘WWWally’s everywhere‘

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SiX SenTeNce STOry -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

March 24, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our second contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop, inspired by Mimi’s third(!!) Six here.

Hosted by Denise.

This week’s prompt word:

TENSION

“Entrainment, as exhibited in the ebb and flow of multiple disparate conversations,” the tall, thin man nodded in the direction of the smallish crowd engaged in the social mitosis common to free hors d’oeuvres night at the Bistro; returning his gaze to the young woman wearing a week’s salary of casual clothing, he decided not to continue with a full explanation of the phenomena.

“Oh, sorry; I didn’t mean to intrude,” the young woman smiled with a reservation that her upbringing clearly required she not share, and continued towards the safety of the center of the room.

Returning his attention to the sound of the room, the Manager glanced at the light-purple curtains, now tied back against the brick columns forming the alcove and thought of Jenne, one of the Proprietors of the SSC&B currently on sabbatical; ‘Now she would not have needed to ask,’ he thought, ‘Or, for that matter, any of the other Managers.’

Reaching for the book in the center of the table, the tall, thin man became aware of a sound embedded in the overall din of voices, glassware and the scrape of chairs on the wide-board flooring. It was a distinctive clatter, repetitive without repetition, four percussionists rather than one; he recognized it as one of the secret languages of dogs, in this case, Hunga dancing his greeting to someone who ranked in the ultimate social constellation of his pack.

There was another sound, barely audible, (by most humans), it’s timbre resonating a tension comprised of equal parts of alarm and defense; the image it inspired: an arboreal setting and the dominant female member of a pride of lions.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 23, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

(Detail of the painting “God reprimanding Adam and Eve”, by F. Zampieri (1625))

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise.

This week’s prompt word:

TENSION

“What I hear you saying,” the glowing end of his cigarette, left maroon, barely hesitated at blood-red and went straight to ‘Class M star’, the fiery light glowed brightly enough, if for only the briefest of moments, to expose the darkness of his eyes, “Is that you’re creating yet another variety of angel.”

“NO! I AM!!…err, sorry, son, no I’m not”, the limitless point of light on the opposite arc of the round, lacquered-wood table flared, then, just as suddenly dimmed, as an odd shyness softened the VOICE; “I will provide my new creation a Paradise to live in, Free Will, dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and…, sorry to go on and on, but I really want this one to work out.”

“But Father, this, ‘Man’, as you call it, even with others like him lacks the one quality to make him anything more than Archangel 1.2”; an eon passed, (or perhaps just a fleeting moment), before the white-bearded being spoke, “Alright already, Morningstar, are you going to tell ME what this missing quality that would make my Creation more than the sum of the parts and enable my new race to transcend itself, or what?”

“Its not so much a single detail as it’s a force that acts and interacts with your dominant being and, by doing so, introduces what I call ‘creative tension’ into the perfect harmony of your new world and…”, seeing the LIGHT flicker impatiently, Lucifer hastened to continue, “What you need is another being, at once equal but different from your ‘Man’; the FLAWLESS LIGHT grew steady.

“This being, this co-Man”, the briefest of a flicker in the LIGHT, “Ok, call it whatever you want, would have the power to inspire creativity by accentuating their differences all the while seeming to be submissive; this drive to inspire her mate to question his own decisions will create a passion that both binds and separates them throughout their mortal lives!”

“Being All-Knowing and Omnipotent kinda ruins surprises, Lucifer, so let me cut to the chase before your brothers start to wonder where I am; I fricken LOVE the idea, hate the name, so, not that you’re likely to meet her, but this magical source of tension shall forever be called ‘Woman’; thanks for letting me bounce MY ideas off you, I AM proud of you.”

https://youtu.be/ddVVJLO9_Wk

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M² -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 20, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to Doug’s bloghop the Min-to-Min.

This week’s prompt:

The Dark Side of the Moon

1975

The third-floor apartment was nearly as devoid of furnishings as he remembered.

The bare wood floors, not the good kind that glow with polish, shamelessly begged for a coat of grey paint. The walls were the remembered horsehair plaster, rough-textured by time and neglect. The kitchen was the only unambiguous commitment to providing human habitation. In the harsh economy of limited space, the refrigerator stood, small and noisy, adjacent to the sole source of heat. A gas stove, it’s top consisted of four grease-crusted burners and an ashtray full of burnt wood matches. The feeling of common shabbiness startled the man, his initial romantic anticipation of a successful time-travel spell wilting painfully.

Without warning, he heard a line of dialogue from a forgotten movie: “This your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to...”

Stepping to the single bed occupying the center of room, kitchen table sacrificed to save on heating during the heartless winters, the man began to stroke and smooth a crumpled sheet of paper across the worn bedspread; a pair of reluctant lovers, resisting even as submitting. The symbols and words on it appeared and re-appeared between his fingers, initial ardor flagging until it could be read no more.

And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

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Reprint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 20, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

To paraphrase V. Lombardi, “Readers? This is a mug.”

One of the thirteen Natural Wonders of the Wakefield Doctrine world? One word: groups of men riding bicycles along roads and streets formerly designated: ‘Cars only, and, ok, trucks as well‘.

Like the old saying goes: If we didn’t already have a theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, we could discover one of the three, (Ok, Who just yelled out, “Two! We could recreate two predominant worldviews’. Extra points and a nod of respect), just from the passing of a group of serious, recreational bicyclists.

rogers, rogers, rogers the Wakefield Doctrine (there are three personality types, ya know)

September 25, 2013

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

Today’s Post is for our more Advanced Readers.

Today’s Post contains an example of one of those moments, when the work you have put into learning the characteristics of the three worldviews pays off… I want you to know that we appreciate how difficult it can be to hold the characteristics in your head, going through your day, hoping to observe the people in your world demonstrate the personality traits that we talk about in this blog, only to have things ‘click’ 15 minutes after you leave the supermarket checkout line where the girl at the register, (who seemed quite attractive, even with the piercings and the tattoo and the streak of purple in her hair), said something that made you laugh and you can’t for the life of you remember exactly what she said…. we know how there are people in your family who come to mind after you read a Post and you’re pretty sure you know which of the three personality types they are, but you forget which is the weird one and which is the man-eater and which is the pain in the ass…

clarks are the personality types that make perfect sense if you imagine you grew up being the Outsider, never having the most basic of beliefs, i.e. that you belong, that you are just like everyone else and instead you ‘knew’ that you missed learning something that everyone else learned and that all you had to do is discover what that information is and then you would be accepted, but until then you really had better not be too obvious how … ‘not the same‘ you really are or something bad might happen

scotts who, if you forget that they are your husband (‘he can be so kind, sometimes he has trouble with his anger’) or your boss (‘…funny stories, will totally ‘go to bat for you’…just wish he didn’t get so off-color sometimes’) or your neighbor (‘she has her family so organized… if you need to leave the kids on short notice she is the first to help…but the way she acts around your husband, if you didn’t know him better’), are understandable if you watch how predators (lions and tigers and dogs, oh my!) act on those nature shows… mercurial and enthusiastic, impulsive and helpful they are living examples of ‘live life for the day’

rogers… the glue of human society, the flypaper of human potential… (lol a joke that strikes me funnier than it probably is, but it’s 2:12 am and experience tells us that many things at 2:12 am are funnier and sometimes scarier than they are in the day world.) rogers are the personality type that results from knowing that you are a part of the group, the herd; rogers are the personality type that live for tradition and connections and they are the person who is reliable and inflexible, precise and narrow-minded, kind and bigoted, this is the personality type that the following commercial is meant for:

So watch and smile or laugh or scratch your head and say (to yourself ) ‘I guess I missed something, I don’t see the humor’ (or) ‘of course!’ (or) ‘frickin rogers!’

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