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

Funny thing about time.

Consistent with the Everything Rule*, of course.

Time is experienced and therefore manifests differently for the three

1. clarks have a excellent sense of time as it elapses, but totally at a loss for the passage of time. (Hint: the first is kinda between now and later, the latter? pretty much mostly ‘thens’)
2. scotts scoff at the concept. what part of ‘here and now’ requires a stopwatch, wristwatch, Day Planner, calendar or any other mechanism for recording one’s life process. jeez what are sittin around for… let go!
3. rogers …funny thing, they tend to be late for appointments involving personal interaction but totally prepared for every other type of ‘Well, now that we’re all here‘ or ‘Pick up your Number 2 pencils and begin the Test….Now!

So a Year in Review post for a clark? It’s the racing around the apartment when your date knocks on the door. You’re really looking forward to this, totally accept and are comfortable with your shortcomings and messy house but ya gotta hide the evidence of the things that matter and the things that don’t!

Thanks and a shoutout to the Hostinae and Host of the TToT¹ and To the mutants what hang out at the Six Sentence Story, a simple ‘Hey, sup?’

* ‘Everyone does everything, at one time or another’. A Doctrine way of saying that a common world is shared, co-inhabited and otherwise occupied by all three predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine. There is no such thing as ‘Well, that’s something only a scott would do’ or ‘Sure, but no roger would ever react or respond like that’

the important concept (also the core tenet of the Doctrine) is that behavior and style, personality and expressions are a function of the relationship a person has with the world around them and the people who make it up. we refer to that as ‘how it (person, place, event, job, hobby etc) manifests in the world of:

• the Outsider (clarks)
• the Predator (scotts)
• the Herd Member (roger)

what that means, specifically, well, thats where the study and reading and, most importantly, accepting and extrapolating the core premise for your-ownself

1) Mimi, Dyanne, Kristi, Lisa, Denise, Misky, KnitCat, cai and Andrew