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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 30, 2025 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

What follows is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Conceived by need, practiced faithfully for the first seventy-three years of both its and her existence, it is highly appropriate to open this post with an acknowledgement of our debt of grat to L.R.

The people, places and things for which we are/have been/pretty-sure-we-were grateful to/in/for this week passed:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop ‘Gentle‘. Liz H

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘Different‘. Sally

6)… the support of our co-hostinae for our somewhat creative approach to labeling link codes. (Example: for the current TToT event: ‘Mariachi 27 to Minus 31’ There was a time, at least to our reading when it seemed writers celebrated the un-checked enthusiasm inherent in the SOC (Stream of Consciousness) approach to writing. There is a not-entirely quiet voice in our head that, at times, whispers, “Dude! That’s your consciousness! We thought we had an understanding about privacy of imagination. shhhh” lol

7) speaking of writing, pulled out the trunk and dusted off the last edition of ‘Almira’. Might take a run at it again. (Now that the weather’s getting better… “Edit?!! It’s 65 degrees and the scary insects are still asleep. Get out there!”

8) Hey! If you encounter any new bloggers in your travels, tell them about the Open Enrollment coming up in April. Starting with the Six Sentence Café & Bistro’s Open House on April 3th

9) something, something

10) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) and SR 1.3

music

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the gods look down in anger…’

March 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

A word-count constrained imagination contest* hosted by jenne and ceayr, the prompt is an image and the only limit is ‘tell your story in under 250 words’.

The evening’s whispers, like mountain streams, manifested their true power in the endless variety of sound as they tumbled towards the sea. Never a single voice. Rarely even similar timbre or tone. Yet mountains fell and oceans filled.

“Fuck ’em,” a smile like a shadow growing on a series of X-ray prints found voice, “If that was in Latin, they’d listen.”

As is the nature of even the most high-borne soliloquies or alcohol-engendered bravado, the words were cast to an empty house, footlights of a hand-crafted stage obscuring all but the highest-proof perspective.

Lifting the broken glass, the man, his girth an ironic filigree to the delicate touch of tobacco-stained fingers, held it up to the light in search of shards that might disturb even his thirst.

“My kingdom for a whore!”

Chin thrust, shoulders hunched, the drunk dared the empty barroom to duel.

The barman held open the door, Charon waiting to complete the journey begun in the light of a challenging day at work. The pride he proclaimed in ‘showing those management morons’ now resignation to the 3:00 am kingdom of empty streets and hopeless dark.

Hearing the door close behind him, the man pressed the broken glass, scepter of a kingdom found and lost in eight hours, to a bloody grip oer his noble profile and stumbled into the endless pre-dawn night.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [a Café Six]

March 27, 2025 By clarkscottroger 20 Comments

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

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

Hosted by Denise, subject to the Rule of Six.

Previously, in our story

Prompt Word:

CARD

“The first guests of our April Fool’s Day³ will be arriving before we know it, time to get to work setting up,” the tall, thin man, after rolling up his impeccably-tailored sleeves, put down the rack of glasses and held his suit coat out, over the bar, “Do you mind putting this on a chair somewhere?”

Perfectly shaped eyebrows shifted like hungry wolves looking for the prey’s weakness as Rosetta Storme stared in disbelief; finally her shoulders relaxed slightly, but sufficiently, to bring her upper body from attention to at ease.

Like olden day card sharps looking for the single weakness in their opponent, the young woman and the refined gentleman began an exchange:

“No problem, what the hell, I’ll go put it in your office,” and took one step in the direction of the hallway…

“Stop, under no circumstances are you to ever go down the hallway without being accompanied by a Proprietor…”

“Jeez… just trying to, like, get in the spirit, but if you people are so uptight, maybe I should just leave…”

“Not at all, it’s for your… I promised Lou that you would be safe working here,”

“Hey, old dude, I ain’t no kid, I can take care of myself and am way capable of handling drunks both male and female…”

“You misunderstand me, this is not about the customers, hell, it’s not even about the Manager’s office,… it’s about the hallway…”

“Are you busting my balls or what?”

Sighing, the Proprietor continued, “You’ve worked here, what, a total of five days, and among other attributes, you are very observant…”

“Sure but whats that got to do with…”

“Don’t interrupt, just tell me if you’ve seen a single thing about this place, lights, plumbing fixtures, furniture that seems to be broken or in need of repair…wait, don’t answer… the hallway at the end of the bar, tell me, what you see?”

“The lights are fucked up, a bulb or two that’re ready to burn out, … a little dark for a emergency exit route…it’s been badly lit since I got to this zoo, so the hell what…”

“Do you think Mimi, a Proprietor and one of the, to use an expression from before your time. the most-together people in this… zoo, as you so charitably put it, sits there at the last seat, right next to the service station because it’s the best seat in the house?

“She’s there so you or some other kid, being all young and oh-so-sure of yourself does not come to harm.”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- [an Ian Devereaux Six]

March 26, 2025 By clarkscottroger 18 Comments

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

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

Hosted by Denise, there is one rule: Six (no more, no less) Sentenceses to the story.

Previously, in our serial story…

Prompt word:

CARD

Being careful not to change my posture or breathing rhythm too drastically, I raised my eyelids just enough to take in the sight of Diane Tierney behind the wheel of the car that hopefully would deliver me back to the Land of the Rational; almost immediately, my attention was highjacked by a wide, granite rectangle approaching on the right side of the road, it’s face, carved lettering: ‘Hobbomock High School’.

Memory is a funny thing.

Were it simply a collection of facts and information, it would be both manageable and efficient, unfortunately it is anything but; memory/memories are less an old-fashioned library’s card catalog and more like a Busch Gardens zoo with an aggressively incompetent staff consisting of manic-depressive animal trainers, hebephrenic tour guides and exhibitions that, at random intervals, lowered the fences separating wild animals from feral humans.

This is especially true of memories created in the years separating childhood from adulthood, the scorched-earth, psycho-social battleground known as adolescence.

“You’re coming down, that’s good,” Diane’s voice was a synthesis of concern, curiosity and genuine affection; overcoming my obsessive desire for privacy, I decided to not be selfish and responded,

“That’s the hellhole where I endured four years of socialized torture, aka my old high school.”

She laughed, “Well I, for one, am glad you survived.”

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Wodin’s Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 26, 2025 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Found a RePrint post that made us think of two things:

New Readers: for the record this is not a clumsy effort to find our way through the new(ish) Land of ProNoun Choice. Hell, while we have not always committed to the editorial ‘we’ in narrative, we’re totally comfortable now, to the point of preferring it. In our defense, (yeah, like we need to be concerned… not to tempt the gods of good online fortune, but we have not, to date, been subject to negative readers or comments or such over the years of our tenure. chalk it up to the natural, self-limiting hubris of a clark),

… the two things? two people:

Cai who has been contributing to the TToT for the weeks of this new(ish) Year… in their lists has been mention of the A-Z Challenge. We did that! Once. And, as it happens below is a One of Twenty-Six (or four…can never keep that straight) from our participation
Friend of the Doctrine zoe… at the bottom (not showing in this RePrint) are the thumbnails of the twenty contributors to (that) weeks’ TToT zoe being one of them and then, we noticed she was a Hostinae at the time. And, we’re like, wth! gotta send her an invite to update her Host Emerita status to Hostinae. there ya go!

…before we get into pasting and such, a word about clarks and privacy.

damn! (insert clever/risque/relatable metaphor for embracing the concept quality of privacy to a level that Michelangelo would be all “You meant the wall outside the Chapel?!?! Aspetta un attimo, cavolo!!! …So the people walking by could enjoy my depiction of ‘The Creation of Adam’??!!). You know, like that.

P -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Provocative‘

April 18, 2015

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

provocative (prəˈvɒkətɪv)
adj
1. acting as a stimulus or incitement, esp to anger or sexual desire; provoking: a provocative look; a provocative remark.*

“…finally a word we can sink our teeth into!!!” (said nearly every scott, at one time or another). Find me another word that does more to generate images of lipstick and slinky dresses**, not that that’s what today’s Post is going to be about …much.

In the words of a clark, ‘yeah, no! but….‘ in the early days of this blog, we saw any number of occasions when, searching in earnest for an illustrative metaphor for one of the worldviews, or a fictional encounter between members of the three worldviews, meant to demonstrate how our worlds are experienced differently, we’ve been met with the response. ‘what?!! did you just say that scotts are predators??’ (yes)…. “I’m not sure that a photo of a cow is really such a nice way to begin a discussion of rogers, don’t your think you’re being a little offensive?” (no).

I’ll say this for certain, the behavioral metaphors that are associated with the three worldviews, are exaggerated and yet ring true, they are over-the-top examples of ways that people perceive the world and yet, when used as a predictor of future behavior, are uncannily accurate. And it’s fun. That’s the other thing that I can say for certain, all that is written in the Posts*** that collectively are the Wakefield Doctrine blog, is written with a sense of affection for each of the three personality types. And this should be anything but surprising, seeing how we all have the potential, the capacity, to experience the world as any of the three personality types do.

Of course, the way ‘provocative’ is manifested in each of the three worldviews is as different as…well, as the three worldviews. scotts come to mind first, as the definition that we used above, anger or sexual desire. rogers, not so much. clarks, oddly (lol, well, duh!) enough, clarks can be very provocative people, in a secret, roundabout way, of course.

Since I have a TToT Post to add to this, lets run out some favorite statements that help us appreciate today’s Word.

rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless

scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb and clarks are crazy

scotts get angry, clarks get mad and rogers get resentful

(stop me anytime, remember: ‘acting as a stimulus or incitement’!)

* courtesy of free dictionary.com

** at least for those of us blessed to live in the happy and peaceful land of Y Chromia! I assume the womenfolk, (to use the proper technical psycho-socio-cultural term for members of Gender X….), will find their mental drive-in movie playing a similar but different film (you ‘not-old people’, you have heard of drive-in theaters? please say ‘yes’)

*** those Posts that I wrote, which are not all the Posts in this blog.

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