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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 15, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Hosted by Denise.

Constrained by a required number of sentences: Six.

Previously, on the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf…

Dr. Leanne Thunberg, chair of Radcliffe’s Department of Advanced Anthropology and Cultural Semiotics, grew up with a three-part dream: become a world-respected expert, find the love-of-a-lifetime and raise the perfect family. The unremembered dreams waking her in the sunless-hours of the morning suggested that one out of three wasn’t acceptable. Unlike many who, confronting an intractable problem in life or a will-sapping tragedy, will dive into work, hoping to find solace in exhaustion, Leanne found peace in the classrooms and the ivy-cliffs of the campus.

Prompt word:

CENTER

“Doc T, yo!”

The language of the young, seeking, as any group might, it’s own linguistic identity, was always a struggle between anagram and acronym; like popular music of one generation to the next, it’s timbre meant for a sensibility that was the first causality of maturity.

Leanne stopped and turned, taking in the center of the quadrangle, streams of students between classes dwindling, in fits and starts, like an aging athlete trying to recover from a demonstration of technique to a class of freshman sprinters.

Her smile in return had the tone, if not the experience, of a mother watching her son burst into the kitchen with a gold-starred, thumb-smudged piece of homework; the pleasure in watching the unaffected enthusiasm as the young man closed the distance between them, loping gait, streamers of flannel and brown hair, brought a sense of hope disguised as amusement.

“Slow down, Caden,” Shared laughter served to mark kindred souls by their enjoyment of words and language, a passport that recognized no border gates, be they credentials on paper or wrinkles, tugging at skin.

Watching her favorite student approach, Leanne resolved to double her resolve to exercise caution in her search for the reasons behind a senseless death; this world, the one in which she was most valued, insisted she accept the fact that, if the future held the answers to the questions she valued, the young were the natural, native guides.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 13, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Let’s get all, practical-application, take-it-out-of-the-shipping-container, now what do I do with this thing, personality theory.

First thing: it’s about you, not them.

Second thing: everyone does everything, at one time or another

Third thing: there is no proper sequence, warm-up, don’t-hurt-yourself, sequence.

Read * Practice * Apply

(the perspective that is the Wakefield Doctrine is not an answer, it is (are) beneficial questions and, without quite constituting cheating, suggestions for alternative ways to experience the world and the people who make it up.)

And, as the old saying reminds us, “Eighty percent of success is just showing up.”

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Ten Things of Thankful -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop, created by Lizzi, following a walk alongside storm-battered cliffs, on the Manchester-Manchester England seacoast. Little did she realize how in a scant eight or eleven years, the bloghop that did speak it’s name would be hosted by Dyanne.

Now, at the beginning of the second decade in the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the gathering of words would continue.

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which permits, (albeit, grudgingly), the remainder of this list of grats to qualify under a set of rules that would put the Queen of Hearts to shame, i.e. the use of hypograts. This refers to those people, places and things that occur to all of us, whether we want them to or not. (Mostly not). But the BoSR/SBoR maintains that we are all gifted with the transformative power of perspective. Which allows us to put things into a context that nets out positive.

4) The difference Time makes. Category: Harmless unless, that is, the question is asked, ‘But what other biases and prejudices are the necessary foundation for any given humor. (Precursor conditions of audience: sub-adolescent Y-Chromian, coming to age on the Eastern shore of Oceania.)

Exhibit 1:

5) The difference Time makes. Category: the foibles of previous generations hang on to the umbilical of nostalgia in the seemingly-innocuous panels of newspaper cartoons. Freely-available insight into the reality of different times in a given culture, if such would be your interest. And although it is very much ‘preaching to the elect’, all one need do is look back at what passed for humor, entertainment and standards for social interactions. Though we very much caution: it’s easy to think, ‘We’ve certainly developed as a society, we don’t have gladiatorial spectacles, at least not so far as to actually kill people in the process’. However, if we but look to recent history (20th Century), it’s quite apparent how tenaciously the past holds us in thrall.

Exhibit 1: Dagwood Bumstead, abused at work, with a King Kong of food obsessions. The guy can’t catch a break! His boss, Julius Dithers, has actually kicked Dagwood across the office; granted, Dagwood was sleeping at his desk. But still. And Blondie, totally passive aggressive enabler, has a catering business. Denial much?

6) the serial stories, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude’ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) the Six Sentence Story The place for flash fiction…as a writer or a Reader

8) this year’s Garden of the Triffids (so far)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 22, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (from the Book of Secret Rules, aka the Secret Book of Rules): “…[a] list that, you know, in your heart-of-hearts, simply can’t make any sense to anyone but the most logic-/CMS-/Sister-Catherine-grammar-class-deprived-Readers, who will not only immediately click to another website, but will, to be on the safer and prophylactically prudent side in terms of preventing further degradation of better judgment turn off the power to whatever device being used and storing it in a dark, cool place for several hours….” quid pro forma, op. cit. c. 2021-2022

9) the Secret Book of Rules/Book of Secret Rules (aka SBoR/BoSR) a feature of this bloghop that, in all due modesty, in and of itself sets Lizzi’s creation apart from all the other gratitude ‘hops in the blogosphere

8) Hypograts another stand-out element of the BoSR/SBoR that gets it elbows and hands above the crowd… like an ‘onside kick’ in football, if one were to describe how the thing is executed, many would walk away, muttering things like, “You want to get 80 yards in that direction, but you’re going not really try...” or “Sure, count on the opponent, who has only to run out the clock to win…do your best to put the ball in their hands”

7) music vids as aids to understanding the written word, better, music with a) attractive people or 2) little animated figures who accomplish more in increasing your enjoyment a work of classical music than a busload of music appreciation teachers driving the class to the beach, which also has an amusement park across the street from the ocean.

6) not one, or even two… But Ten (10 / dieci / zehn / kymmenen / dek / tekau / عشرة) Hosts (technically, co-hostinae) which is like saying, the more…the scarier? Current hostina: Dyanne

5) encouraging linkation to other places other than the site the hypothetical Reader has deliberately, or worst-case scenario, been completely hood-winked into opening by a throughly charming photo of a dog who, even from the static and at-a-distance medium of a photograph, (a fricken digital photograph, at that), conveys a sense of the potential that all life possesses to connect with everything else and, in doing so, offering, what is arguably, the key to a fuller appreciation of all that the world and the people who make it up, have to offer.

4) Linking to fictional people in imaginary worlds leading lives that are limited only by the skill of the author, which is akin to wearing a skin diver’s wet suit (appropriately fully of water) and walking in a desert… (or something) err well, see for yourself whichever one of the following does it for you and don’t forget to ‘follow’). Places like the Six Sentence Story, ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘, ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ or, even, the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing.

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (the guide to enhancing our understanding, appreciation for how we relate ourselves to the world around us and….the people who make it up)

2) Phyllis

1) Una

music (like we’re gonna forget that)

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Brought to reality, in the summer of 1979, by Lizzi* The TToT is, at last report, the third longest-running grat blog.

* ————————→——————–→————–→
It was, “the worst of times, it was the worst of time” except (or perhaps in reinforcement of the chaos of culture), Pink Floyd released ‘The Wall’**

Currently the host of the TToT is Dyanne. Aided by her co-hostinae, Patricia, Lisa and Linda-Lou, she invites one and all to join each week as we explore gratitude as it manifests in our lives.

Somewhere at the bottom of the page, are the links to where the other participants, who have applied their good intentions, considerable writing skills and graceful expression of the topic, hang out.

The Wakefield Doctrine is here, somewhere… betcha you don’t have any trouble distinguishing one from the others.

So, before incoherence totally claims this post (like a scott, walking away from the cafeteria line, confronted with a very large room divided, like candy in a Coinamatic, by melamine-covered, four-by-eight foot tables; some are exclusively occupied by rogers, one or two mostly clarks but, never is there a table full of scotts (unless the table had, until a moment before was where the twelve hapless lunchtime students donated their food to the pack standing a jagged, hungry, circle around the neat rows of folding chairs)

Where were we?

Our Founderette recognized the value of cultivating gratitude and it was fortunate for us she had the courage and the will*** to create the blog you are currently enjoying… well, if this is your first stop, do not despair, like a graffiti-tagged building one block from a museum or a hospital, keep in mind, the external is rarely the location of the precious.

We could relate the inspiring story¹ of the first days of this bloghop, but if you’re one of the few who’ve persisted this long, pushing through the dense rhetorical underbrush, we offer the sight of your goal:

1) Phyllis (the Alfred Hitchcock in the photo)

2) Una (the Dennis Hopper in the photo)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (’cause sine qua non, binyons, sine qua non!)

4) the Six Sentence Story a place learn, practice and enjoy the fine art of little, tiny stories that you can have any time… like M&Ms (yeah! zactly like M&Ms!)

5) ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’ Because, who doesn’t enjoy a good serial story… they’re like an open book exam, no pressure and if you lose track of a character or narrative arc, well! just click back a few chapters! It’s all good, yo.

6) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing. Hey stayed tuned! We’ll be asking for some audience/viewer participation soon.

ok…just the abridged version of the ‘Story of Lizzi and the Dragon‘… “…the weight of negative emotions grew almost daily. Though accustomed to the periodic silent, cold of the dark place, a point on the map all too familiar to people of her kind, (an Outsider, some might even say, a clark…however one of the first and few rules of a certain Doctrine holds that one person cannot assign a category to another, at least not if they hope to claim authority). The weight grew greater and the dark place darker, until the idea, (mentioned by another, found in the pages of book now lost), came to her: ‘Write a list of things for which you are grateful. And write it…everyday.’ And she did. Everyday. Alone, (as this was in the beginning and there were not yet fans and Readers and people who would be drawn to her). It’s the writing the list alone, without the co-support of others of like mind. A demonstration of will. And courage in the face of an adversary that only a certain group have the awareness of. The End.

7) 8). awww, come on! can you give a blogger a little ibid. here, yo? You gots a history story. Besides, our hostinae, Dyanne totally approves… no, I don’t know that for a fact. I got to the sidewalk just as her car roared away from the curb, a dialogue balloon… “Cars, bitches… do a thing with cars!”

9) something something

10) SR 1.3 …because the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) waits for no one, it (the BoSR/SBoR) is the rhetorical expression of the famous quote (Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’) “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” You got a rule book with mad blank pages, use them wisely, grasshopperini