Month: June 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Rue DeNite / Ian Devereaux Six]

June 21, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, guided by the simplest of rules: use the prompt word and tell a story in exactly six sentenae.

For a sense of continuity, when last we saw Lou… click here.

Prompt word:

REPLAY

Constantin Szarbo sat opposite the owner of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge and without the slightest self-consciousness twisted around to stare through the divider between the Club and the Bar as the lights dimmed on the small stage. His gaze conveyed all the humanity of an Easter Island statue, without the sociability implied by the fact the originals were always in groups.

Lou enjoyed challenges almost as much as he did contests; he was neither intimidated nor annoyed by the visit from Cyrus St. Loreto’s fixer. This assessment from a would-be-business partner was nothing if not a replay of a very familiar dance; the qualifier, ‘would be’ on the two men’s relationship constituting a reservation on Lou’s part and an enticement on Cyrus’s. Neither man was fond of disappointment yet what gave him an advantage was that it was not personal for Lou Ceasare; nothing was personal to Lou, other than family and business.

A new dancer, Caran Delight, materialized on stage in a shower of pale, blue light to the sound of Freddie Smith’s saxophone intro from a track on Hendrix’s album, ‘Electric Ladyland’.

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One-K Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Back with a one-off for jenne and ceayr’s weakly ‘hop, the Unicorn Challenge.

This week we confront the age-old conundrum: if you’re standing in a forest, where are the trees?

[Before…]

The man walked tentatively along the abandoned cart path and entered the grove of trees. Shielded from prying eyes by the trunks of an odd variety of mostly deciduous trees, he scrutinized the base of each gnarled trunk. His posture was well-suited to this endeavor, shoulders sloped into lifelong hunch, long hair shading his eyes, clothing from the House of Goodwill collection spoke of a life of unrealized potential.

Simon Létrange sat, rather awkwardly, and leaned against the trunk of a tree not that different from all the others. Once settled on the ground, he began to talk to himself. It was of a volume clearly a compromise between society’s admonition against such antisocial behavior and his need to hear another voice, even if it was his own.

“It is empirically valid that many otherwise intelligent people lack the ability to distinguish the forest from the trees. By extension, this peculiar twist, in otherwise normal perception should be valid in the converse. Few people viewing the old woman/young girl optical illusion will panic at their struggle to see one or another. If, as the Old Books describe the grove here as having the power, if one bold enough to surrender the cold comfort of conformity, to enable me to apply the reverse of this principle on the world at large.

[…After]

“And now a man everyone knows, the man who will lead the Party to victory! Simon…”

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 18, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Now in it’s bidecadeal year!

1) Una ————————————————————————————⇓

2) Phyllis ——————⇑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) Cottage patio project:

6) Before

7) After

8) something, something

9) Hypo-grat: in the course of our tenure here we’ve graced these pages with tales of monumental engagements with nature, i.e. lawn projects and a variety of landscape renovations. Mostly moving piles of dead wood or soil from one part of the property to another. It served as the only physical workout we’d get. Well our hypo-grat focuses on the state of exhaustion that followed sucf worthy efforts. The thing is, the endorphin-fueled feeling of satisfaction of that used to take the better part of a Sunday afternoon, can now be achieved in about an hour. As my boy Robert Browning be sayin in his poem, ‘Andrea del Sarto’:

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?All is silver-grey, Placid and perfect with my art: the worse! ”

10) Secret Rule 1.3 Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) take us home!

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 14, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, guided by the simplest of rules: use the prompt word and tell a story in exactly six sentenae

Prompt word:

PETRICHOR

The light pressing on his tightly shut eyelids was a corrosive medium bathing his eyelids in a sour froth waves as top and bottom eyelids resisted, lashes strained but nevertheless parted like lovers hands pulled apart as they plummeted earthward. Finally with irony even a sixth grader could recognize, (if not fully appreciate), when Seth opened his eyes, his vision abdicated its role as a primary source of sensory input; the voice of his teacher, Sister Catherine telling him to come down to earth and listen was his sole passport to his current surroundings.

A voice from the darkness behind (or part of) the light intoned, “Are you ready?”

Resources once in seemingly endless supply allowed but a nod of his head as he braced himself for the long-anticipated onslaught.

“Petrichor.”

“Petrichor: ‘P-E-T-R-I-C-H-O-R… the relief that washed over Seth nearly undid his training and practice before he added,

“Petrichor’

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Toosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 13, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

~~Let’s start with an overview of current bloghops we participate in~~…*

Wait just a minute.

We interrupt the casual tone of one starting the day with zero pressure, negative stress. Like the theme to ‘Leave it to Beaver’ (of song by the Platters), soft, melodious and resonating with the message, ‘Don’t worry, Everything is as it should be’.

nuh uh

This is the Wakefield Doctrine. A perspective on the world around, (all of), us and the people who make it up. The Wakefield Doctrine offers that, given a certain degree of flexible intelligence and confident curiosity we can, (all of us), see the world as the other person is experiencing it. By allowing ourselfs the additional perspective of the three personality types (aka predominant worldviews), we can know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

These three predominant worldviews are:

clarks (Outsiders)
scotts (Predators)
rogers (Herd Members)

And while each are quite distinct and distinguishable in terms of characteristic responses to everyday situations, they are all grounded in the notion that our relationship with the world, (established at a very early age), is the basis for our personality types. To put that more simply: We are, all of us, born with the potential to see the world as: Outsiders, Predators or Herd Members. It is this initial choice that informs our development of personality, the style of our social strategies and such.

Imagine waking up as a two or three year old in one of theses three realities. You don’t know that it is one of three ways the world can appear. It’s simply the reality. (After all, you are kinda young in our scenario, probably lacking in a lot of language skills. Ya know?) But the fact is:

everyone one else appear to know something about each other (and the world) that you cannot for the life of you see or understand. you know that you are a part of the others, the family, whatever group forms your immediate environment, but you don’t have the assuredness of the others in your family. you suspect you’re not really completely like them and rather than ask why that might be, you keep it to yourself. since you don’t remember missing whatever lesson of life the others evidence, a part of you urges caution. maybe there’s a reason you’re different. a not-good reason. you practice the strategies of appearing to be a part of, while constantly exploring the world (pretty much in your mind, via your imagination) in the hope of finding out why you’re the Outsider
man! the world is an exciting place. you know you’re a part of the group around you, the family, but there’s so much to do and so little time to do it. you get comfortable with your social environment but, inside, every waking moment, there’s an urgency to move, to do, to chase. some who you meet, you recognize and immediately establish a relative standing… a ranking. others? they seem to want to be chased, pursued and dominated. everyday something new, something to chase. fun isn’t quite the word, but when someone does something near you, more often than not you’re off and running. Predators do not live by waiting for the world to come to them.
huh. the people around you are …fine. they know you and you know them. everything is perfect. except when it is not. then you must earn your place in the group. without doubt there are ways to do things. live, interact with others that are…. well, basically, perfect. if you’re a part of a group, and you know this without knowing why or how you should, then clearly your responsibility to the others is to develop and practice this ‘better way’ and then, by demonstrating it to others, you will be valued. except for those who are different, those not a Herd Member.

* referring, of course, to Denise’s Six Sentence Story; jenne and ceayr’s Unicorn Challenge and the TToT. you should stop in at one (or all of ’em) Tell whoever asks that the Doctrine sent ya

Late in the day to post. Music to ameliorate