Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
The Weekend Landscaper’s Universal Sign of Distress (lol)
The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is a list of the people, places, things and events (yeah, you might say that ‘events’ qualify as ‘things’ and thereby allow us to retain the original expression. But we didn’t. Seeing as you’re still reading, allow us to introduce you to the hostinae of this here bloghop here. Being far more … nor-mal and emotionally-developed (i.e. mature and capable of responding on a level of interpersonal sophistication higher than our), ‘Yeah? Well We’re rubber and you’re glue. Like that horse you rode in on.‘ err… our hostinae: Mimi, Dyanne, Denise, Misky, Lisa and Kristi. They will be better able to convey the intent of this ‘hop. Share the gratitude you experience and it is then multiplied in others.
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For the Doctrine:
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see Grat 8 below)
4) Closed on my upstate listing. No more Friday inspection trips. Alas, that means no more driving past the Port of Providence. Elimination of any further opportunities to paraphrase one Mr. Mix-a-Lot’s admission into our current favorite bon mots, i.e. ‘I like big boats’.
5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
6) the Unicorn Challenge
7) work in the woods (as opposed to wood-working or working the wood) photo of first phase:
8) Hey, couldn’t manipulate the word ‘Wagon’ (photo in previous Grat), into any humorous form (the closest we got was the theme of ‘Wagon Train’ but no one reading this is old and alive enough to have direct memory thereof. So, instead we got Vince Gill and Albert Lee (see video below).
… Hey! Wait a darn minute! That vid!! For TToT gratitioneer, Cai, you know how we say the three personality types of the Doctrine can be observed manifesting differently in three people doing the same thing? The three featured guitar players in the video are Vince Gill, James Burton and Albert Lee. Guess what? roger, scott and clark (respectively)…
Simple, impromptu study guide:
- the clark (Albert Lee) is easiest to identify: the guy with the unfashionably long hair and the bad posture … so clarklike;
- the scott (ProTip: with scotts? the guy in the black shirt who gets introduced and plays the first solo, (the eyes of a scott, unmistakeable always alert)
- finally that leaves the frontman (Vince Gill) as the roger. affable, easy going and confident)
See how much fun the Wakefield Doctrine can be?
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3
music vids
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About clarkscottroger
#8: pffft. I preferred Rawhide. What show was Miss Kitty in?
Gunsmoke
Marshall Dillion (and Festus)
And the woods be filled with…crawly things. If they don’t appear, then most peaceful. If they do? Me, I’d go running through those woods, screaming like a girl, lol. OK, maybe just scream and jump back.
Congrats on the closing the deal. Alas..
Most excellent representation of the 3 personal realities. I smile, watching Albert.
yeah, we’re fortunate that the Doctrine is so… true (the living actual examples of the types, not simply they exist, but they show a depth of conformity to each personal reality that you’d think they read the blog)
Hooray for the sale! It’s funny, in your line of work, you are always working your way out of a job and having to go find another….
this is true (thanks)
I’m hoping to get some yard work done this week, too. (No chopping down of trees here, though. We’re at the opposite end of the process–still figuring out what/where to plant!)
we’re going to stay with the ‘Meadow Effect’ at least on the (formerly-grassy-areas-requiring-mowing)… it’s interesting, even this early in the season it looks like the meadow will be of a different character from last year. weird. (for example: three years ago the thistle showed up in the side yard, all prehistoric giant thorns and such, last year not a thistle of blue flower in sight.)
we shall see
Hard work pays off for sales. Congrats.
Does every trio have a clark, scott and roger? Must they all three have a different personality or else they can’t work together in the first place? Have you encountered a trio of clarks or three scotts or three rogers co-existing in harmony?
thanks
no. we use the ‘trio’ configuration most often to a)illustrate the three personality types in contrast to each other 2) because it’s fun to see how qualities of one both compliment and conflict with those of the other two.
there are countless combinations of the three (ok, probably not ‘true’… mathematically-speaking… if we have any rogers out there to help us out* with enumerating the possible combinations we’d appreciate it.) that said,
it is the stuff of countless fun and informative Doctrine posts the interactions among the three
hey! thanks for the reminder of a fundamental in the Wakefield Doctrine!
more than one scott: a pack
more than one roger: a herd
more than one clark: …who wants to know? lol
like all human interactions, even setting aside a given context/social setting, there is a variety in the ways the three interact…that said, these interactions are useful to us in identifying the predominant worldviews of a person
*the Everything Rule reminds us that none of the three have exclusive dominion over any aspects of reality. that said, each have a certain affinity to some aspects (in contrast to the other two)… this is very much the case of rogers and mathematics
That is enlightening. :)
…and fun
#7 – oh wow… big, big woods!!
thank god (my only actual, genuine exercise these days)