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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger 13 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution/participation-in/’whew!-made-it-another-week!’ as your host of the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. We’re glad you made it. While you’re here, if you’re a Reader, please consider dashing off a list of the ten things that come to mind (recently and/or really?!!? you still remember that? jeez the things the subconscious sticks in the ‘don’t leave this plane-of-existence without it), of people, places, things and events that elicit and otherwie jumpstart a sense of gratitude.

…for the Doctrine we submit:

1) Phyllis

2) Ola

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) from one of our favorite utube channels (chill dude explains) an episode on smells. two things he left out: mimeograph ink and newsprint though, to his credit he did have as number 2 (the smell of) bowling alleys.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) video of walking through the woods on a raw, rainy Saturday morning (so you don’t have to)

7) photo at the top of the post? Our first German Shepherd, Ola. One of our favorite Ola stories: when still a young dog we tried to give her a bath. Didn’t enjoy it. Fine, we tried. Another fact of life Ola did not find agreeable was that we both had to go to work, (in those days, remote offices). One morning we were all finishing our daily get-ready to leave for work routines and noticed our dog was nowhere to be found. Looked in almost every room. Finally, Phyllis opened the bathroom door and there was Ola, sitting in the bathtub. There was zero doubt in our minds that our dog was trying to open negotiations on our staying home. We stay, she’d submit to bath. Ola was that kind of dog.

8) something, something

9) as if the live-action video walk wasn’t convincing enough below is a still photo (with bonus feature of the progress Phyllis has made in her stacking of firewood0 of dead leaves on trees.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wait, what?! -the Wakefield Doctrine- …somehow, it’s half-past Friday and we haven’t written our Doctrine post

October 16, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

New Readers; the content in this blog consists of three categories: 1) Wakefield Doctrine posts Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays (being all things Doctrine), b) Six Sentence Stories (fiction for a bloghop run by Denise) posted on Thursdays and tres) the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) gratitude bloghop (with a difference) on Saturday hosted (currently) by yours truly, (link to last week’s TToT why not join us this weekend?)

So if you’re curious about this little personality theory thing of ours, those are the days to get the skinny* on the hows and whats of one of the most fun alternative perspectives on the world around us and the people who make it up.

In any event, we are fortunate in having Readers who write comments that more often than not suggest themes and topics for posts (and in recent weeks) series of posts devoted to the question.

Among them are Mimi, Frank, Misky and Denise (with occasional fly-bys by Friend-of-the-Doctrine Cynthia).

So don’t be shy with your Comments or Questions.

Closing out this week: we started with the topic of the reality of personal realities. Central to the Doctrine and fun to consider how each of the three predominant worldviews (aka personality types) grow up developing the perfect personality type…given the reality they experience. Then we went with a RePrint of the Doctrine’s origin story (the Eureka Moment)

As should be abundantly evident, we all have fun learning how to see the world from a peculiar angle. (You into people watching? You will love the Doctrine)

lets close this short post with the essential: clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…currently on the top floor of the Espirito Santo building on Brickell Ave”

October 16, 2026 By clarkscottroger 9 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.

Given how recent developments in our Serial Time Adventurers story are making certain characters hard to ignore, here is a little backstory(ette) on Cyrus St. Loreto and his relationship with the Order of Lilith. The second half, the flashback scene condensed from an old Order of Lilith Six.

Prompt word:

CURSE

Cyrus St. Loreto has been described differently by: reporters, would-be-fiction-writers, religious zealots and those in search of a metaphor to solve the meaning of life and their place in it; it is safe to say the least frequently employed characterization is he is given to idle thoughts and nostalgic recollection.

The owner of the Bernebau Company sat at the head of a conference table, his back to the section of glass wall looking down Brickell Ave (and out over the Atlantic) that would receive the maximum sun at this late morning hour; due to the magic of technology, he was bathed in shadow, even as his guest, the Archbishop of Miami, was making an impassioned plea for more investment in the community, all while squinting against the glare of the morning sun.

The curse of needing to maintain the image of a businessman devoted to the well-being of his community sometimes demanded a tithe on his attention, and, as a result, he drifted off into a considerable trove of memory.

“I trust you’ve brought what I’ve asked of you,” the softness in Sr. Schader’s voice was a mother’s smiling correction to a high-spirited, mischievous child: a personal indulgence available to the Reverend Mother of the Bavarian chapter of the Order of Lilith, despite, or perhaps because of, the softness of her voice this 3:00 am in the shadow of Brașov’s famous, Biserica Neagră and acquiesced,

“I have found what you …requested of me. surely I’ve earned the right to know what causes this, brass-and-ivory clockwork, to be so dear,” glancing down at the burlap bag with red-streaked cord binding, he smiled, “While 1885 is limited in it’s appreciation of technology, may I be of further service to the daughters of Lilith?”

“Were our respective progenitors not so very …intimately acquainted”, while the Mother Superior’s smile provided the italics, her eyes served notice that she remained the dominant half of the transaction, “But, alas, while gods might deign to live as humans, some of us divine from that choice, an insight into the limitations of immortality”.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…a tale told from the memory of a dream by a Time Traverser, aka the Sophomore”

October 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 20 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.

Previously, in our tale…

Prompt word:

CURSE

The Omni Corp’s hostage Rescue team left in a manner that was an opposite-land mirror of how they arrived: vacating the building like a Delta Force squad of lethal mimes.

I remained in the semi-furnished dining room of an early 20th colonial house in the company of: a young couple in love, a nun with a conscripted Gaelic manservant and Anya Clarieaux… talk about an embarrassment of riches.

Kinda reminded me of my first double date: a rainy Friday evening in October of my freshman year in high school when I found myself in the backseat of a car with the sister of an off-brand friend headed to my first (and only) sock-hop; he was enthusiastic, she was hopeful and by evening’s end I’d become intimately familiar with the original curse by god on a certain first couple, namely the Stockholm Syndrome.

The Sophomore sat at what had, by the same magic that drew the first humans to a fire outside a cave huddled against the darkness full of hungry predators, become the center of the room.

I was dragged back into the present by the sound of the Sophomore’s quiet voice.

“It was the smell more than the gaslight-flickering on a hand-painted cast-iron sign that read: ‘Thrawl St.’ but what creeped me out was almost running into a tall guy who stood in an alleyway laughing, “La naiba, Cyrus… this is what you get for helping those Order of Lilith witches.”

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Wedezdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 14, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

from a Comment from Frank on yesterday’s post.

Since I wouldn’t want to mar the new equipment with a piece of tape, I would have shown the customer how to turn the dial. So, I’m not a scott. A roger might go into greater detail about how dials work than I would. I guess I’m a clark.

ok!.. your Comment provides our New Reader with a good set-up to illustrate how to determine a person’s (or your own) predominant worldview:

a) throw out the ‘no fricken way!’ personality type 2) now compare the remaining two worldviews, ‘side-by-each’ and decide which one provides the clearest/in-focused view of the world.

ProTip: here is where your reading pays off, i.e. sure, you know that ‘clarks abhor being in the spotlight but will not tolerate being ignored, but how does being in the spotlight manifest* for a roger?’ or ‘the Herd Member knows there is a correct way and a lot of other ways that are worse than being merely incorrect, but what does the Outsider think of their responsibility for a mistake on the part of another person?’ You do see where we’re going with this, don’t you?

Who said ‘It’s about how a person relates themselfs to the world around them, (and the people who make it up)?’ very good… but isn’t there something about this statement that really matters?

Yep! The ”…a person relates themselves…’ part. The Wakefield Doctrine isn’t all ‘7os pop psych, ‘oh wow, I can relate to that. …err man!’

The Wakefield Doctrine demands more from those who would advantage theyselfs of the insights it offers. To do this right, one perforce needs to understand, (as much as possible in the current moment), accept (as a working description of the world) and let this self-knowledge afford them the perspective on the other person.

So, our valued correspondent, Frank is (or should be asking himself): ‘What do I think about the solution to the problem of the ‘Misunderstanding Customer’ and immediately afterwards, ‘How do I feel about the lack of understanding of this equipment that this total stranger rudely demands an answer to the question, “Why doesn’t this thing work?”

lol

* reminder: ‘the Everything Rule’ states: ‘everyone does everything at one time or another‘ which simply means there is no exclusivity of actions, interests, sins, ideals and/or expertise among clarks, scotts and rogers… a thing may, however, manifest differently for each