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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 24, 2026 By 7 Comments

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

Friend of the Doctrine Mimi wrote:

Here’s a thankful, I ran into a rogerian expression “in the wild” so to speak. On the nextdoor app, a lady asked if local colleges have a dress code. She was saying if they don’t, they should, as these young people are beyond casual and let everything hang out, front and back. She said it “leaves nothing to the indignation!”

Damn! Significant? Well, here’s the link to the Page of rogers (as now amended). Now go to the next to the last entry in the list of ‘rogerian expressions’ then come back and tell the date on it.

We could, (and, full disclosure:sorely tempted to), wax rhapsodic on what this event demonstrates.

But the Doctrine is nothing if not helpful in self-improving oneself, so we’ll end today’s Brief post with:

If we still did Wakefield Doctrine hats (‘for your damn heads‘) and tee shirts that, by their being produced by a clark, demonstrate one of the qualities of my people: wear it out in public and you draw looks but any inquiry by strangers is markedly cautious*. lol

*will qualify that observation, there are clarks i.e. Mimi and our T-shirt model above (Cynthia) who are genuinely nice, friendly and not (necessarily) kinda intimidating. They would simply thank people for their solicitous complimentationing.

 

Wait!!! Reminder: Set your ducks and calendars and Muse intercession for this Thursday 27th of Augury and the Six Sentence Story Poetry Slam!!!

(We’ll: save you a seat, bring extra cigarettes have the coffee on… whatever fits your frame-of-reference.)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 22, 2026 By 16 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Born in need, nurtured by acceptance and perpetuated by the practical benefits, this ‘hop is a very fun, surprisingly useful exercise in cultivating one’s sense (and sensibility) of the state of gratitude.

So join us.

For the Wakefield Doctrine, we find the following items to totally be Grat List worthy:

 

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) paths (old and new)

6) imaginary places in the blogosphere frequented by imaginary people and endless challenge (in the best possible sense) and this week that place is the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. Which, as luck would have it, is hosting a Poetry Slam next week. …ok, quick backstory. Way long ago one of the Proprietors (of the Café) was releasing a new book (in the real world) so, we held a book launch party at… you guessed it, the SSC&B. It was such a success that it wasn’t long afterwards that someone suggested having a Poetry Slam. Welll… it was fun. So, long-story typed: Chris (the aforementioned Proprietors) wrote (in a Comment, we believe) last week: something-something, fun-with-friends, something-something, lets do a Poetry Slam again, real soon. And, yours truly being a clark, (and therefore surprised by the notion of being included in a fun, casual online social event), what we heard was: “something-something, Poetry Slam-Next Week!’ lol. Chris was gracious in her, ‘well, I was thinking out-loud, isn’t one week a little on the short side to get everything together?’ Too. Late.  So… be sure to…wait! what’re we doing… gotta leverage this once-in-a-blue-moon thing into more than one Grat!

7) this: (see Grat #9)

8) something, something

9) So for all reading this: You’re all Invited to join us next Thursday at (Denise’s) Six Sentence Story bloghop. Read(ers) or write(rs), all are welcome. If’n your in the mood for some virtual fun and hijinks, write and link a post (doors open at 6:00 pm Wednesday). Format is casual. Written or audio. Same with the types of poetry, whatever you feel would be fun to put before a virtual audience, have at it. (TToT Host, Frank posed an interesting question about the format (after the “what??!! you are people for real?!!?” lol). He thought perhaps he would devote some of his Six Sentence allotment to his character/avatar/whatever to being in the Café and getting up on stage… the story of the Poetry (Slam) from his perspective. Excellent idea. btw if you’ve never been to the Café follow the link in Grat #6 for a description, layout of the joint. (The layout/floor plan being stable and long-established is the cool thing about the Bistro).

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Fri(ish)day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 21, 2026 By 7 Comments

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

You know the (secretly) most difficult aspect of self-improving oneself?

Accepting the: change/improvement/’this is how I would be as a person’ that result.

Doesn’t matter what it is, if you have a certain ambition to become: more/better/’like-that’. Unless, that is, you’re a scott or a roger with a seriously deficient clarklike aspect, you probably have things (about your ownself) that you wish was…different.

The Wakefield Doctrine excels in its capacity to serve as a tool in the effort to improve one’s experience. Wanna be assertive? Study the scott. Think that the assured sociability of a roger is desirable? Have at it. (god knows there ain’t no small supply of them!)

Question for clarks reading along, lol*.

Why is it you try to ‘ne more like…’ and forget five seconds into the first interaction of your day?

What? oh yeah, the question at the start of the post!

The most difficult aspect of self-improvement efforts…in a word: acceptance.**

**trick answer!  ‘ja ja‘ (as Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia once wrote). The concept of acceptance is one of those jinn-in-the-bottle situations that, curiously enough, most cultures down through history make a point of warning people about, (well, mostly children as the warning is usually disguised as a fairy tale, fable or whatever). It’s a total lynch pin to the whole process.  But let’s stay in our context here. The stated value of the Wakefield Doctrine is to aid in one’s effort to:

“…improve how we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.”

Secret key: “how we relate ourselves to…’

That is where acceptance becomes … a thing, To know oneself is the starting point. We, all of us, have multiple versions/editions/’you’re gonna love this book, just you see’ of our ownselfs. Accepting all of them is a starting point. (Did not say: approve of/hate/deny/’you got a problem with that’?.

Acceptance. First square. Big-ass game board.

Will stop now.

HEy! Mark your calendars, schedule your Muse, stock up on pharmaceuticals for the Six Sentence Story  bloghop’s  Poetry Slam! Next Thursday the 27th  Hosted by the Six Sentence Café and Bistro.  Slots remain open for written, audio’d …hell, video’d poem readage on the Stage at the Bistro. Way-open format, provided it conforms to Rule of Six. (Lat. poetae Sextiteria)

Check in with the Proprietors with questions and such: Chris or Mimi or Denise . They’ll totally hook you up.

* like there’d be a scott or a roger still reading.

 

Speaking of Posters!

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SIx Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…in one week?!? that’s meta-physically insane, man!”* lol

August 20, 2026 By 13 Comments

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, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

So we awoke to read, over at Chris’s Six, that the much rumour’d Six Sentence Café & Bistro Poetry Slam is on for …next Week. As in August 27!

As with the previous event (April 2023), the binding convention lies with its location, the Six Sentence Café and Bistro. While the layout of the main floor (‘three steps down from the sidewalk’) is well known to most, we’re providing a Link Here to all who might be curious and want to join the Proprietors: Mimi, Denise/the Bartender, Nick/the Gatekeeper and our host this year, Chris/la Raconteuse next week.

Prompt word:

FUNCTION

The tall, thin man righted the dumbwaiter and immediately turned and walked out of Room 215…

{WAIT… No, I’M FINE… NEED I PRINT LARGER?}

While the design scale and length of the automaton’s legs were inherently limited to his Four Foot frame, the actual mechanical function of locomotion wasn’t; not so much Road Runner level blurring of feet, but suffice to say the dumbwaiter caught up before his rescuer got to the staircase that lead down to the main floor…

{WHERE ARE WE GOING?}

The Proprietor paused to read the most recent Intertitle card held by his companion, “Are you asking for a one word answer or a full description of the path and the ultimate destination?”

{I’VE BEEN TRAPPED IN MY INVENTOR’S WORKSHOP FOR A HUNDRED YEARS, YOU BE THE JUDGE..}

“Well, these stairs go down one floor and let us out on the hallway which, if we go right, as we will, we will pass the Manager’s Office and a short distance further we’ll come to an area that opens out onto the Bistro; bar running along on our left, to the right the open space full of small round tables and, halfway down the interior brick wall, also to our right, the small stage where our Poetry Slam will happen; oh, in case anyone asks, along the wall opposite the stage, sixty feet or so, a series of curtained alcoves, dig?”

{DUDE, WAY TO INFO DUMP THE PHYSICAL LAYOUT OF THE SIX SENTENCE CAFE & BISTRO!}

 

 

 

*borrowed this fun expression from the incredible FireSign Theatre from way back in the Before Time

 

Speaking of fun… reserve your internet keyboard for next Thursday Ate-27-twenny-twenny Six!

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(the) Six Sentence Café & Bistro. (‘location’ and main floor layout)

August 20, 2026 By 20 Comments

The Café is an imagined gathering place in an unspecified city in a virtual world, frequented by metaphorical people..

From a somewhat busy thoroughfare in the nearest medium-sized city, look for the side street where the last-remaining cobbler has a shop, (next to a seamstress with a sign in the window ‘Wedding Gowns on Consignment). Continue walking until you come to a lane (sidewalks now reduced to one side of the street only) and the buildings are growing larger, emptier and made of granite and brick instead of glass, steel and indifference. The road you’re on seems to broaden (as much to the empty lots of a once thriving industrial area of the city) and up on the left is a lane where the sidewalks are somehow cleaner, less pink-bubblegum splotched.

The Six Sentence Café & Bistro is in a building, (former textile mile if you must know)… non-descript but clearly well-kept amidst hulks, shells and remnants of the discarded infrastructure of a long-gone industrial engine

There is one entrance (three granite steps down from the street) and once through a small foyer (with a cigarette machine on top of which are free shopper magazines and dog-eared issues of ‘The Watchtower’) a glass and stainless-steel door.

Inside there is a long, polished mahogany bar running along the right-hand wall. Mirrors behind the shelves of liquor reflect out to the Cafe proper. Halfway down the bar, on the back wall is the entrance to the kitchen. At the far end is the service station (and Mimi’s seat).
Beyond the bar is a hallway that turns to the right that leads to the Manager’s office. Beyond that, the hallway becomes gradually darker (not in a good, ‘hey aren’t you warm in that sweater’ way, more in the ‘no turning around won’t help…and running? Lol go ahead… we like it when they run’)

Opposite the bar is the open area of the Bistro. There’s a small stage, halfway up the right-hand wall and if you were to stand on the stage and look out, you’d see any number of round, heavily lacquered wood tables and chairs for the audience. Beyond is the exterior wall, the granite wall that you would see from the street. The columns that support the floors above form alcoves that are curtained off for privacy.
The building is in a failed re-development section of the former industrial zone in a mid-sized city. Granite, brick and cast iron are the predominant building materials.

 

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