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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 22, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

It is said that the Wakefield Doctrine can be the most efficacious of tools for self-developing oneself.

This is true.

This assertion will come as no surprise to most Readers, as there are nearly as many self-improvement schema, systems, programs and secret-religions as there are personality type/typing/this-is-you.

Of course, the Wakefield Doctrine’s Kyrie Eleison is different.

The road to self-improvement is about (our) relationship with the world, not: the things-we-know, the skills-we-hone or the focal-length of our emotions.

New Readers? That, that last line? Classic Hint. (Totally gonna be on the Exam). What our writer friends might refer to as foreshadowing So, if you haven’t been doing your assigned reading, you better hope your neighbor doesn’t mind your looking over at their notes. This is about to get all bullet-pointy.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that if we’re out to change our lives, then it is not about learning things and facts, skills and routines. It it about changing the way we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.

Someone just mutter, ‘Jeez, asking much?’

Yes. Yes we are. (Well, no. No we are not.) The thing about the Doctrine is that it recognizes the nature of each of the three predominant worldviews’s relationship to the world. All without judging, criticizing and, otherwise saying, ‘Well, you know, things might go smoother for you if you just realized/did/accepted (fill in the complimentary quality from the diametrically opposed predominant worldview)

Enough for the morning.

(We’re not just the Curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, we’re also a Student* too! And, today begins Practice Number IIXVVXCCMM)

(…to be cont’d)

* …to school there.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 21, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. The goal, (for participants), is to compile a list of ten people, places and things that have elicited the state of gratitude. It, (the list), can be historical, contemporaneous or, (don’t tell anyone), essentially fictional.

(Warning to New Participants: thinking that simply making up a list will insulate you from any emotional blowback on ‘making up a grat list’? Way riskier than you might imagine. So, go ahead, keep it simple, just type-down the stuff that made you think, ‘Whew! Glad that did/didn’t happen!” If it’s your first visit to the TToT and you start to falter and despair of completing your contribution, lets us know. We keep a pack of breeze-dried Grats just for the purpose of helping a new Participant.’

Our list, for this week at the crumbling precipice of Summer, is:

1) Una. A very young chodsky pes. Taken in her home country, the Czech Republic, before her impressive, Air-Miles intensive trip to here.

2) Phyllis (somewhere to the West Northwest of Una, a buncha miles.)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) something, something

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop Six Pic of the Week: ‘And the Finalists Are…‘ by Anne McSommers

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. Ya gotta read this one!: ‘Time Passing‘ by jenne

7) Current summer project: Figure out if it’s worth renting a combine for the front and side meadowland.

8) Fern Circles: Kinda hard to see in the photo. Every Summer there appears a depression in the middle of this patch of ferns. About this time, (in July) it appears and grows. The individual ferns are not broken or otherwise destroyed, just bent flat to the ground. And the eponymous cool thing is: a) it grows larger by the week and 2) takes on a spiral pattern. Hopefully we’ll find a way to get more meaningful photation going forward as the process continues.

9) new home office (the computer on the left) A much shorter trip to the office now.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Wwwhy Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 19, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Following 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.

“Fuck Plato!”

A startling, if not impromptu, demonstration of the First of the ‘Three Laws of Me and Them’ resulted in the flow of pedestrians rippling outwards around the shouting man. Early morning routines were disturbed. This perturbation demonstrated the Second Law* so directly, as to be evident to even Freshman pursuing a degree in Social Physics.

“You heard me, you Limey bastards!”

While it is beyond the scope of (this) Narrative to incorporate the countervailing social response to our serendipitous Subject, suffice to say, the outbursts continued until they reached a level that triggered the institutional responses consistent within the paradigm of Social Physics, including, but not limited to, the fundamental axiom of: ‘Why Shouldn’t I be Able to Enjoy a Quiet Walk, I live here too’ (Wakefield Doctrine, et al 2009-2024)

“Jaikey! Poor Sod.” Verbal reaction from those walking in the Edinburghian morning sun were thrown like road salt on a New England w\Winter’s sidewalk. The muted wail of emergency services reverse-doppler’d to where the man sat.

“It’s all bullshit, you know.” An indigent priest initiating Penitential Rites before an open air Nave in the 21st Century AD, the man awaited society’s response**.

* the Second Law (of Me and Them): All reactions of bystanders is amplified in an inverse proportion to the distance between Disturbance and Disturbed

** the Third Law (of Me and Them) [M∝T] the energy of the disturbance propagates if the Subject (Me) is known by or otherwise related to (the) Them

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

July 18, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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 the only rule is: six sentences in length.

Prompt Word:

WIRE

“Really? You’re sorry and this is all a misunderstanding, that’s what you’re going with?”

“Can you fuckin’ believe this guy?” The owner of the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge looked around, three of the four men showed no inclination to regard their boss’s interrogative as anything but rhetorical, however, the fourth, clearly most junior of them, offered a shocked ‘What the hell!’; his older, more seasoned companions repressed their reaction to the young man’s misguided ambition, favored uncles smiling at the enthusiastic if not off-key performance at a grade school talent show.

Being the owner of most of the warehouses in the once-thriving industrial park, Lou Caesare found the small, elevated office marked, ‘Shipping and Receiving’ was ideal for private, secure meetings; the subject of his attention at the moment, a second-tier accountant for an import company primarily serving a speciality market based in several South American countries, struggling against the painful embrace of several rolls of duct tape.

Raising an eyebrow, a salt-and-pepper hedgerow he reserved for only the rarest occasions of non-verbal communications, when a rabbit punch to the kidneys or, at the moment, a Skil saw umbilical’d to a wall socket, was insufficient to convey his frustration and slightest touch of pique;

“Tell me who put you up to wearing a wire or you’ll hear my aunt Rosa, may she rest in peace, who used to say, ‘I swear, Louis, you’d forget your head if it wasn’t tied on.'”

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RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 16, 2024 By clarkscottroger

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

Who said, RePrint?!

the Wakefield Doctrine ‘Always Chilled…Never Heated’

May 3, 2013

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)Finish the Sentence Friday.

(a ‘blog hop’ that is being: sponsored, promoted, hosted by, enticed-into-by-the-charms-of, held-in-a-metaphorical-gymnasium-on-a-Friday-night, on-the-list-of-charming-old-homes-to-tour, the central feature of the blogosphere and experienced as the high point of the week at the BB&G, courtesy of the Doctrine’s three favorite Bloggarini : Janine, Kate, Stephanie and Dawn

(…be still, my dog(s) of war…just walk away”)

“If I were stuck on an island, I would like to have…”

the following in no particular order or emphasis:

Ginger and Maryanne

an internet connection

the body of a 19 year old (gender optional)

the mind of my present age

1 of my childhood friends

3 of my adolescent aged friends

1 of my teenage years girlfriends (real or imagined)

my first car (1964 Chevy Bel Air station wagon in faded-to-orange-blue paint)

a contract to complete the Wakefield Doctrine book (currently in ‘pre-write’)

the physique to wear shorts without looking: a) silly, b) old or d) excessively gay (not that there’s anything wrong with being gay)

an endless supply of BLTs (despite the climate there is always magically un-adulterated mayonnaise)

a boat (just for sitting in and looking at the Island from the middle of the lagoon, with Maryanne waving and what I would swear looks like Ola in a clearing in the jungle)

Hey! Somehow I have this little darling up at the beginning of the eponymous Friday morning…. hey! don’t be afraid to call in tomorrow night (if you find yourself in a place at 8:00 pm EDT where you know where the kids are, and they seem to be happy and quiet or you have no plans and you feel like something that will challenge your beliefs and amuse you in ways that you haven’t been amused since…oh I don’t know… since, before girlfriends and boyfriends, husbands and wives, children and favorite pets became the central organizing feature of your reality. call and you might find yourself enjoying, or not who can really say for sure?