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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘
A photo-prompt bloghop hosted by jenne and ceayr, it has the simplest of rules: keep it at (or under) 250 words.
“Half a pound, make that medium ground,
of that splendid, open-range rabbit.
And, what do you say, since it is a holiday,
two grilled squirrels-0n-a-stick.
One for here and one for home,
A puppy’s dream, for when Santa comes around.”
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This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise, it requires but one thing from participating writers: the story must consist of exactly six sentences.
Prompt word:
ADMISSION
“I know you’re old and, admit it or not, for New Year’s Eve, your idea of a good time is get all Savoy Row’d and go to a restaurant with a chick you never thought you had a shot with and, what do they say in the old movies, ‘Ring in the New Year’?” (#R,Stone)
(( how’d u get this # ))
“Seein’ how all you ‘Proprietors’ are scared of my… of Lou… yes ‘the mob guy’, jeez; take me to the Bottom of the Sea for a little visit, show my friends there I haven’t been kidnapped by weirdos and I’ll come back here with you for the Ring in the New Year thing.” (#Rosetta S)
(( lol ur scheduled to work ))
“Sure, wait, what the hell!! no worries, I’ll get one of the others to cover for me, at least anyone other than your psycho-Bartender bitch who, not for nothin’, is startin’ to impress me, you know what I’m saying… and, as my favorite professor in law school used to joke, admission is nine-tenths submission; now the Gatekeeper and Chris are almost too nice but your …your obeah woman, I just wanna stay in her good graces.” (#InUr Dreams)
(( here’s the deal: help each of the Proprietors get what they want most and we have a date; now delete my cell# ))
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…as little gift to ourselfs, this RePrint found as we searched for a holiday post yesterday, the Eve of Saint Christmas.
thank god that’s over! the Wakefield Doctrine (“it’s totally not true that clarks experience distress during major holidays…. bitch”)
December 25, 2013Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
You know how I just got through writing how Christmas is such a clarklike holiday? And how we said that, because clarks are all kinds of self-less and giving and such, that we do Christmas better’n the other two, at least in the old-school sense of the word? It’s true. clarks do totally rock the Christmas spirit. So, why the developing un-ease as the Day itself is upon us? (Many clarks report a sense of: tiredness, reduced excitement, blunted affect, irritability, anogasmia, a desire to take up smoking cigarettes just to have an excuse to step outside on the porch, and totally be willing to be the one to ‘drive to the store for a couple of items that are needed for Dinner’.)
If you feel that way today or expect to feel that way today*, then we have reassuring news for you. It’s them, it’s not you!
The Christmas Holiday, like so many of the other holidays, (and to be honest, like much of life itself), has a way of being commandeered by one (or both) of the other two personality types.
- scotts so many people, so many presents, so many bright lights and things that move and show unmistakable signs of delicious life! (picture if you will, a lion cub taken from the pack just a season before maturity. the cub has the instinctual and learned survival skills, practiced as much as is possible from a season of play with the other cubs. let the cub skip a few meals and then put him/her in an empty basement and after a day of pumping the aroma of a nice roast beef, take a bushel of hamsters and gerbils and dump them down the laundry chute.** …Merry Christmas Simba!
- rogers there are so many memories that need to be created…no time for frivolity! don’t you see the scene?!?! it’s a happy (and grateful), appreciative (and grateful) festive day full of (grateful) family members coming together to enjoy the holiday! so don’t fuck it up with your moodiness and oh-look-I-want-to-be-alone strangeness! this is a once in a year opportunity to come together in a joyous celebration of the family and tradition (well, then…do it outside, ok?)
We kid the rogers and scotts. No, we do! But we love them as well (as we are able). New Readers? Well, there are these three ways of experiencing the world and you do it one of the three ways. The Doctrine says that the nature of the way that you see the world is your personality type. OK? We don’t need to know your likes and dislikes and pet peeves and such. All we need to do (notice we didn’t say, ‘need to know from you‘?) is correctly infer how you relate yourself to the world around you. After that everything else sorta takes care of itself. The three ways to ‘relate yourself to the world around you’ are:
- as an Outsider. from as far back as you can remember (and it’s pretty far back), you have looked at the people in your life and wondered where you dropped the ball, what you missed learning about how to be the way they clearly are…together and, (from this early early time in your life), you have resolved to learn what they seem to already know, all while trying not to be identified as a person who was left out… Merry Christmas clarks!
- as a Predator. you wonder why some people think, “oh what an unkind thing to say, calling that nice girl a Predator“, you don’t give it a second thought and you know why? (no, we know that you don’t know why, because you don’t give a shit about the why’s and the ‘oh-if-only-I-knew-more‘), because you are too busy living…living a life that is full of threats and opportunity, fun and danger, excitement and the occasional quiet moments of sleep, you know what you are… you’re alive!!!! Merry Christmas scotts
- as a Member of the Herd. and no, you don’t walk around thinking I am a Member of the Herd, we get that. What you do is live a life that is full of potential and hard work, enjoying some pleasures but only when earned, people all around you who you can help live a better life….a Right Way and a universe that was designed to be understood and shared with the future generations, both real and imagined… Merry Christmas rogers
New Readers? Still with us? Good. So you have one of these as your predominant worldview, (the character of your personal reality), but you never lose the capacity to experience the world as do the other two. So don’t be surprised if you get confused at first seeing in yourself one personality type and then at times another. That just means you have a significant secondary (or tertiary) aspect. Don’t worry about that now. This is the fun and carefree phase of learning the Wakefield Doctrine. The rest comes later.
To all the DownSprings and Friends of the Doctrine and Readers and such, thank you for stopping by! Do have the best, dominant worldview-appropriate, day possible today.
clark
(a clark with (a) significant secondary scottian and minimal tertiary rogerian aspects)
*when it comes to emotional response, clarks see no reason to leave them to the last-minute! get ahead of that worry, that concern that fear!! don’t wait! be prepared!!
** this is a feature in many old, old houses where the washing machine was in the cellar, an opening in the wall of the bathroom closet that was directly above the laundry area… go ahead and put a half full laundry basket for the gerbils to land in… give ’em a better shot at getting away
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This is an early (by a day) Six Sentence Story.
Holiday post tomorrow am. Then this and perhaps another Six.
The tall, thin man sat behind the Office Supply Depot grey-metal desk, frothy Christmas music breaking against the office door, waves of cultural merriment relentless, but neutered.
The other Proprietors were in the public areas of the Six Sentence Café and Bistro, their voices, like tastefully-applied tinsel, effective as a group, yet each individually distinctive.
The voice of the Bartender moved lightly, easily determined if not constant location, in no small measure due to Tom‘s voice creating the slightest of reverb to her combination of hospitality and non-directive hostility
Chris‘s voice was a pool of quiet, rather evocative of her homeland, a life giving oasis in an otherwise predator-heavy environment; her laptop open on the small round table near the small stage, it’s display a wonder of multiple streams of stories, each independent yet linked in a way to include much more than a single narrative. Nearest the street-side door, now bedecked with a magic marker’d sign; Κλειστό για τα Χριστούγεννα Nick sat beneath a cumulus congestus bank of cigar smoke, smiling as Hūnga made his rounds, his species being the only true manifestation of the ubiquitous wandering figure of good will.
Mimi, sitting at the end of the long bar, turned her head ever-so-slightly towards the dark hallway and smiled, “Admission”.
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This is the Doctrine’s season-appropriate contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. On this occasion of the 837th installment of the grat blog that no-less esteemed an virtual literary publication than “Bloggers On The Move” (1957 ed) said of the TToT: ‘Not only has the Founder (referred to as the Founderette for reason uncertain), this bloghop maintains an advisory board of hostinae (‘again with the spurious disregard for convention or Reason), that ranges in number from a high of Ten (10) and a low of six or five or something.
In any event on the evening of Summer, we offer our list of the people, places and things that have inspired, incited and otherwise not-leave-us-the-hell-alone state of grataciousness.
1) Phyllis
2) Una
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) the Unicorn Challenge. Pick of the Week:
5) the Six Sentence Story Pick of the Week:
6) Hey! Summer is but days away! By the time you read this (and/or we actually complete and publish it) Summer arrives! *
7) * (new TT0T Readers/Participants: hey, we may lack something by way of logic and sensible narratives, but we’re very not new to the Grat Game. Hence the extra Grat Item to explain what you should already know: The essences of Summer is daylight. This weekend the days’ supply of said light begins to increase rather than decrease, (Certe hoc longe credibilius sonat1)
8) driveway markers in the ground this week. good ole’ fashioned New England Winter juju
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3
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