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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 18, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Now in it’s bidecadeal year!

1) Una ————————————————————————————⇓

2) Phyllis ——————⇑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) Cottage patio project:

6) Before

7) After

8) something, something

9) Hypo-grat: in the course of our tenure here we’ve graced these pages with tales of monumental engagements with nature, i.e. lawn projects and a variety of landscape renovations. Mostly moving piles of dead wood or soil from one part of the property to another. It served as the only physical workout we’d get. Well our hypo-grat focuses on the state of exhaustion that followed sucf worthy efforts. The thing is, the endorphin-fueled feeling of satisfaction of that used to take the better part of a Sunday afternoon, can now be achieved in about an hour. As my boy Robert Browning be sayin in his poem, ‘Andrea del Sarto’:

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?All is silver-grey, Placid and perfect with my art: the worse! ”

10) Secret Rule 1.3 Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) take us home!

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 14, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, guided by the simplest of rules: use the prompt word and tell a story in exactly six sentenae

Prompt word:

PETRICHOR

The light pressing on his tightly shut eyelids was a corrosive medium bathing his eyelids in a sour froth waves as top and bottom eyelids resisted, lashes strained but nevertheless parted like lovers hands pulled apart as they plummeted earthward. Finally with irony even a sixth grader could recognize, (if not fully appreciate), when Seth opened his eyes, his vision abdicated its role as a primary source of sensory input; the voice of his teacher, Sister Catherine telling him to come down to earth and listen was his sole passport to his current surroundings.

A voice from the darkness behind (or part of) the light intoned, “Are you ready?”

Resources once in seemingly endless supply allowed but a nod of his head as he braced himself for the long-anticipated onslaught.

“Petrichor.”

“Petrichor: ‘P-E-T-R-I-C-H-O-R… the relief that washed over Seth nearly undid his training and practice before he added,

“Petrichor’

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Toosday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 13, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

~~Let’s start with an overview of current bloghops we participate in~~…*

Wait just a minute.

We interrupt the casual tone of one starting the day with zero pressure, negative stress. Like the theme to ‘Leave it to Beaver’ (of song by the Platters), soft, melodious and resonating with the message, ‘Don’t worry, Everything is as it should be’.

nuh uh

This is the Wakefield Doctrine. A perspective on the world around, (all of), us and the people who make it up. The Wakefield Doctrine offers that, given a certain degree of flexible intelligence and confident curiosity we can, (all of us), see the world as the other person is experiencing it. By allowing ourselfs the additional perspective of the three personality types (aka predominant worldviews), we can know more about the other person than they know about themselves.

These three predominant worldviews are:

clarks (Outsiders)
scotts (Predators)
rogers (Herd Members)

And while each are quite distinct and distinguishable in terms of characteristic responses to everyday situations, they are all grounded in the notion that our relationship with the world, (established at a very early age), is the basis for our personality types. To put that more simply: We are, all of us, born with the potential to see the world as: Outsiders, Predators or Herd Members. It is this initial choice that informs our development of personality, the style of our social strategies and such.

Imagine waking up as a two or three year old in one of theses three realities. You don’t know that it is one of three ways the world can appear. It’s simply the reality. (After all, you are kinda young in our scenario, probably lacking in a lot of language skills. Ya know?) But the fact is:

everyone one else appear to know something about each other (and the world) that you cannot for the life of you see or understand. you know that you are a part of the others, the family, whatever group forms your immediate environment, but you don’t have the assuredness of the others in your family. you suspect you’re not really completely like them and rather than ask why that might be, you keep it to yourself. since you don’t remember missing whatever lesson of life the others evidence, a part of you urges caution. maybe there’s a reason you’re different. a not-good reason. you practice the strategies of appearing to be a part of, while constantly exploring the world (pretty much in your mind, via your imagination) in the hope of finding out why you’re the Outsider
man! the world is an exciting place. you know you’re a part of the group around you, the family, but there’s so much to do and so little time to do it. you get comfortable with your social environment but, inside, every waking moment, there’s an urgency to move, to do, to chase. some who you meet, you recognize and immediately establish a relative standing… a ranking. others? they seem to want to be chased, pursued and dominated. everyday something new, something to chase. fun isn’t quite the word, but when someone does something near you, more often than not you’re off and running. Predators do not live by waiting for the world to come to them.
huh. the people around you are …fine. they know you and you know them. everything is perfect. except when it is not. then you must earn your place in the group. without doubt there are ways to do things. live, interact with others that are…. well, basically, perfect. if you’re a part of a group, and you know this without knowing why or how you should, then clearly your responsibility to the others is to develop and practice this ‘better way’ and then, by demonstrating it to others, you will be valued. except for those who are different, those not a Herd Member.

* referring, of course, to Denise’s Six Sentence Story; jenne and ceayr’s Unicorn Challenge and the TToT. you should stop in at one (or all of ’em) Tell whoever asks that the Doctrine sent ya

Late in the day to post. Music to ameliorate

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Mon-Re-Day-Print -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 12, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

While the TToT just celebrated their 10th anniversary and the Six Sentence Story didn’t (in all fairness, not certain the current length of tenure. Zoe commented on the weekend at the TToT, she might know. If she doesn’t I see Wendy on the FB, and we’re pretty certain she proceeded Z. Should ask.)

So, on the week’s schedule, we’re pretty busy.

But, this blog is about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. And, if there’s anything that’s demonstrably true about it, it’s that there is always something to write about the Wakefield Doctrine.

Be that as it may, it’s Monday and we promised (in the title) a reprint post.

(Man! What is it you can’t admire, when it comes to this internet. I just searched ‘writing’ among all Doctrine posts. The last page ‘…of one thousand’ yielded the following. Just what the Reader, (may or may not have), ordered!

Works for us!

time for another Post already?! oh man, no f*ckin way can I keep this up

October 6, 2009

OK. I have it together now. No need to get excited. Just sit here, clear the mind, the content is in there. Just relax.My compliments to any of you out there who have maintained an active blog for more than 3 months. Jesus, this coming up with Posts all the time is not as easy as it looks. And this from the perspective of ‘as long as there is a new Post once a week’ blogholder. But no one is holding a gun to my head… (‘hey theres an idea for a Post!)

SOMEONE IS HOLDING A GUN TO MY….

Sorry, forget it. Sure one of the 103,000,000 blog authors in the world today has already done the definitive, ‘Someone is holding a gun to my head’ treatment. Maybe there are some studies that I can cut and paste and fill up some of this white space and then I can call it a day and get back to my real life!

Alright, seriously now. I do mean my compliment to those of you who have the ability and talent (acquired or learned) to write something new and different and sometimes even interesting, Post after Post after Post/blog after blog after blog. Not bad. But since I am not ready to give up on this little blog of mine, I had better t t try to get it together and come up with a Post that will keep the crowdlette coming back for more.

Being that this is the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) I would do well to keep to the subject that I know best. (See? Right there! I don’t know much about grammar and good writing and all, but that last sentence had at least two tenses, and easily three pulperfects in it. Man, this is worse than the first time I recorded myself playing guitar along with Jimi Hendrix. Suffice it to say, if you were there you would not have had too much trouble telling us apart.)

This writing and grammar thing is really starting to annoy me. It is bad enough that I regret now that I did not take a typing class when I was in high school. (At my current age, in my high school years Typing Class was for people taking a Business curriculum, which meant you were going to be a secretary which meant you were a girl. That simple, end of cultural subtext). But with this damn blogging thing, I am being forced to confront the fact that I do not have mad writing skills. I should have paid attention in my English classes. (Look, it was the 60s when I was in high school, how cool is that?) But the inescapable fact remains that the skill set I would value the most this October morning is not how to play the opening riff of ‘Sunshine of Your Love’. Its funny about how people, at least in the current (american) culture, we seem to have an expectation to be able to do certain things well, just because we think we can do them at all. By this I mean singing and writing. Most of us know that we can sing our favorite song in the car, on the way to work, therefore I think we all equate that with being a singer. Writing, the same. I can, with the help of spellcheck and a lot of proof reading, write a report at work, so how hard can it be to be a writer?

(I have resisted the impulse to hit Preview to see if I’m down far enough on this page to call it a day.) But anyway, you are here because you want to know all about the Wakefield Doctrine. Right?

The Wakefield Doctrine will cause you to see the world in a slightly different manner. Nothing earth-shaking, no flashes of light; ‘oh my god I understand now’ will not be on your lips. What will happen if you read most of this blog and the associated pages will be that you might find yourself saying, ‘that person is such a roger‘, or you might find yourself thinking, ‘here comes so-an-so what a scott he is’ or you could think, ‘shit, I’ll bet I’m one of those clarks the Doctrine is talking about.’

If this happens to you, I have succeeded. If it does not then I have failed. If you have a question about the Doctrine, leave a Comment or email or whatever the hell people do around here. I will get back to you as soon as I finish my Adult Education class, “You too Can Write Like The Prose’, that I am taking at my little local high school.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 10, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop on this occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the grat ‘hop that Lizzi created.

Very good thing. Very good writers. Very good benefits results from the practice, (manifested in these weekly posts) of appreciating the perspective of gratitude.

Like any good sitcom, come ratings week (or Summer doldrums) who doesn’t like a flashback?

1) First TToT:

June 2013

2) Thanks to our co-hostinae down through the years for keeping the quality in the Very Good/Mature Expression of perspective. (It’s not like the Titanic sank only because it hit an iceberg. Rumor has it the man-at-the-wheel had developed a bit of a pinball jones before the maiden voyage.)

3) Una, Bella and Ola

4) To bring in something personal to anniversary. I enjoyed the earliest days for two reasons: 1) how Lizzi actually started this here ‘hop here and b) the story of when I got to know Christine.

We met Lizzi in the comment streams and FB hangouts we frequented soon after starting the Doctrine blog. I immediately sensed her predominant worldview and naturally began to converse (in comment threads) like I knew her for years. Not long afterwards I got a comment from a Christine (from the Midwest, no less) and I smiled at the first sentence. “I saw your comment. What is your blog about. Lizzie is a friend of mine. It seems like your blog is about personality types. Did I mention I am a friend of Lizzi?‘ My smiled broadened as the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine on the world around me and the people who make it up was, once again validated. (As you can see in the links of the reprints here, Christine was one of the original co-hostinae.)

I have the memory that, upon advice of a trusted friend, Lizzi started writing posts listing 50 things to feel grateful for. Yes, no! That’s not a typo. Fity items in a single list. And she did for quite some time. All before she became ‘the blog’ to be seen at among the virtual crowd I was tolerated by. Those were days when there were less comments per post than the eventual number of cohosts. That is Will. And one of the reasons, imo, there is still a TToT

September 2014

6) Phyllis and cottage

7) (The last reprint. We promise. Went looking for this one ’cause it’s almost entirely a vid post

July 2016

8) A thank you to Dyanne for keeping the lights on and a special thanks to Kristi for remindereing us of the one of the special qualities this ‘hop has through all these years.

9) Total grats to all the hostinae (and Mimi) down through the decade. ~~Couldn’t~~ wouldn’t have done it without you. [And Lisa, ’cause being on WP, her link is the simplest path to join in the ‘hop.]

10) Secret Rule 1.3 “the approaching conclusion of the list, is a very valid Grat and is surely meant to be Number Ten

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