Month: December 2023 | the Wakefield Doctrine

TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 30, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Voted ‘Top Grat Bloghop’ three years running in the Journal of Recursive Inquiry’s annual Meister Eckhart Award, the TToT continues to this day encouraging those of good intent to link their list of people, places and things that engender gratitude and gratitude-like emotion.

…and such.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) writing practice* specifically the Six Sentence Story bloghop and the Unicorn Challenge

5) * as opposed to the writing that has bestowed on an unsuspecting world the principles, practices and party-tricks courtesy of the Wakefield Doctrine

6) living near enough to the ocean to stop by on impulse

7) Still no snow!

8)something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

ok, ok, even we have a certain limit. lets get all Vincent Vega and Mia at Lance’s house (lol)

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FrisYae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 29, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

the setting: the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

the players: jenne and ceayr and a cast of tens

the premise: beginning with a new photo prompt, write a story

the rules: maximum word count is two hundred fity (250)

“So, here?” The man stopped his carefully-measured steps.

“I concur.” He regarded the dog at his side.

“It is a most excellent spot.” Taking note of two sets of people strolling along the quay, the seriousness in his face was washed out by an enthusiastic pride; his remaining close friends often laughed at the contrast with the man’s demeanor on the occasions he was compelled to be alone.

As he began the careful process of sitting, a laugh escaped like carelessly held balloons. The dog looked up with that most-doglike of physical expressions: perked ears and a titled head. After settling into a practiced stable posture with a tone of unalloyed amusement tempered by an echo of sadness, the old man said, “This is our spot, isn’t it?”

A young couple with a child walked by; without remark establishing a zone of separation wide enough to assure the mother and narrow enough for the child to gaze in wonder, uncoordinated fingers grasping towards the two seated figures. For the child, they were a novelty in a life that was filled with new.

“So, is this sunrise or sunset?” Looking down at the dog at his side, “I sometimes have trouble telling.”

“I know, you never do,” in agreement, her ears folded back briefly as her tongue accentuated the toothy smile of her kind.

The dog rested her head against the man’s leg as the rhythm of breathing slowed.

The man stared at the dying sun.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 27, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise. This ‘hop has but one rule, that I’ll share with thee, Six and only six sentences your stories must be.

This week’s prompt word:

JINGLE

“No, I don’t mind holding,” I lied.

Sitting at my desk, on a late-December afternoon, the offices of Desiderata Investigations and Conflict Resolutions LLC was enshrouded with the kind of gloom possible only in the northern latitudes; during Winter; on a cloudy day.

“Yes, still here… I already told the young woman who answered the phone what this is about, but, sure, if you need me to repeat my request,” I tried to force my eyeballs to expand and throw off the stingers that encircled them like meth-addled spermatozoa refusing to accept their creator believed that quantity offset competency and more is more.

“Yes, I realize the Human Genome Project is a multinational effort and this number is for the most general of enquires,” I swiveled away from the empty office now possessed of that special kind of dark that can be witnessed only by one who has let the natural light extinguish before being compensating with interior illumination; a room full of newly-hatched shadows is nothing if not a nightmare’s finger paints.

“This is Dr. Joseph Aāmīn, how may I help you, Mr. Devereaux?”

“So my question is this, what part of our DNA accounts for the feeling we experience when our loved ones die; no, I don’t mind holding,” The pre-recorded music was their corporate jingle and was making the second go-around when, after throwing it as hard as I could, the far wall of my office got all Newton’s First Law on my cell phone, putting it out of its misery; one-out-of-two ain’t bad.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 26, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Had a most-excellent Drive-in call this weekend.

In attendance: Denise, Cynthia and (the Progenitor) roger*

Our takeaway: the inestimable value of the Wakefield Doctrine is reminding ourselfs to translate. To translate what is said by a roger if you’re a scott, to translate what is being said by a clark if you’re a roger, to trans… you get the idea, right?

Wait, lets make the following statement that, other than a famous math quiz** is one of the most significant in the Wakefield Doctrine: the goal of the Wakefield Doctrine is ‘to help us to see the world as the other person is experiencing it.’

If’n you’re still with us and, even better, smiling at this last statement, Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine, clark (or scott-with-a-significant-secondary-clarklike-aspect / roger-with-a-significant-clarklike-aspect)

The photo? Sure, it is of the three. Betcha you can tell us who is which. Not to worry. The thing about the Doctrine as a tool for self-improving-oneself, you can’t get it wrong. That’s correct, we just said, ‘You can’t get it wrong.’

As to this weekend’s call in. Stimulating conversation is all it was.

ya know?

out of time, remind us to go to more lengths on the discussion.

….and… and! memoir stuff

* New Readers: the two other people in the eponymous theory are, in fact, real people in the ‘real’ world!

** one of our favorite quick survey of personality type. actually one single question. Never fails. Question: How much is two plus two (2 + 2 = ?)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 23, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

That white edging along the far shore? The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created despite resistance from both the House of Lords and a formal lettre of protest from the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, the TToT has survived recession, inflation, manic-depression and ennui. All, of the aforementioned eco-psycho-philosophical states, endemic to the blogosphere over the years since we arrived on the scene in June, 1909. (or thereabouts).

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the End of Winter!* this past week, now all that’s left to do is leave yourself a note to move your clocks ahead one hour (in just 77 days)

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the (current) lack of frozen water piled up on the ground and such, not to jinx anyone

7) technology and stuff. Little did we realize, growing up, that there would be a day when we could create and save motion pictures courtesy of our telephones!

8) something, something

9) * New Readers? The thing of it is, for some of us, a big part of what makes the Summer such an excellent season is the amount of sunlight (for those of us here in upper-right Oceania). While we abhor the cold, it is the darkness that makes us wish for warmer times. And so, with the 21st (Thursday), the days are getting longer. Slowly, barely perceptibly, but each day holds a little more light than the day before.

(See?! The Doctrine isn’t as weird as some people might suggest.)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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