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Phuct it Phyridae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 2, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

For the record, today’s Post title is not intended to imply a negative outlook on the day ahead. My clever misspelling is in reference to the view on life that maintains that, ‘there are some things in the day ahead you can control and there’s a whole bunch of things you cannot’. Know the difference and things will go much more better for everyone.

(I probably should leave the ‘positive metaphysic’ to Friend of the Doctrine Cynthia over at her new blog ‘Intuitive and Spiritual’. She is naturally gifted in the teaching of methods for changing one’s perspective on life, for the better. I do T-shirts, videos while driving and the occasional funny neologism. In fact, you would do well to go over there, sign up and see the positive side first. I kinda like the more twisted view.)

So, anyway. Its Friday morning, I’m up and sitting here trying to sneak up on some word herds to capture and add to Chapter 35 of Almira and as the day is trying to get my attention. Kinda like a person leaning out of a 3rd story window as you walk along the street, gesturing and waving their hands somewhat wildly, you can hear that they’re yelling something, but the traffic noise makes it unintelligible. So you continue walking, with much less determination, because you can’t tell if what you saw was a warning, an invitation, a welcome or even specific instructions. Clearly there is something imminent and equally clearly this person, who, by the way is waving from a 3rd story window of the very same building that you must visit. All you have to go on is the waving of hands and arms.

So the thought came to me, ‘the challenge in the day that’s coming to light around me with the reluctantly rising sun, like the stranger on the other side of the bed following an exciting but indistinct night, a shape to the blankets that denies the possibility that you slept alone and leaves no doubt that soon enough you will find out, the challenge for me today is not in the answers I get, but rather lies in the questions I choose to ask.’

ok…back to sneaking up on some new words.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘it takes one to know one’

October 27, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Warm up. Nothing to read yet. You know, little stretching before running (yeah, as if). Maybe a better analogy might be singing (or other musical instrument operating), yeah! that’s it hold on, I’ll get us a video.

Yeah! Now we’re talking… or singing, ok, humming, only ’cause I’m a clark and we have a problem with the singing thing.

So, what the hell would a proper ‘classic rhetoric warm up exercise’ consist of?

Oh man! No, seriously, I searched and read and, seeing how that was, like, 20 minutes ago, no way I can continue this humorous set up. There are way more cool, Greco-latin words for talking funny than I’d ever realized. Man, them grammarians and rhetorians know how to have fun with the writing and the words and such.

Speaking of words. Our friend zoe does this thing, every Thursday, called the Six Sentence Story. It’s a bloghop (so there’ll be other stories to read and enjoy) and it requires that only Six Sentences go into any story (so it won’t take too long to read ’em).

Stick.

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,’ the little boy thought, his frown every bit the all-or-nothing exertion of a body builder, facing the weight no longer supported by anything other than muscles and will.

‘That’s what I should’ve said,’ walking along the leaf-carpeted street in the gathering dusk of a cloudy autumn Thursday, the boy felt his initial anger begin to transmute into embarrassment. Like the first drink to an alcoholic, his consideration of what he might have said or done changed everything, without anything changing. If he could now see what he might have done differently, then the impact of what actually happened was diminished, what he wanted to have happened increasingly the basis for how he felt. With each logically-inferred alternate version of the recent bus stop drama playing and replaying in his mind, rendered in meticulous detail, the boy felt better and better; the land of normal emotional connections trading places with the mirage, the unreal become real and the real, avoidable.

As he walked from the pool of yellowish streetlight up the flagstone walk towards the house, it’s picture window a welcoming borealis of blue-grey television light, the boy felt less and less like crying.

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Monday Post -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘what?! did I read that correctly?!!!* whats going on here?’

October 24, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick, before it fades from my mind, ‘within yesterday’s memory are all the lessons I need to make today the kind of day that I would hope it might be.’

whew! damn, that was close!

No, serially! I was (deliberately) veering from the path I found myself on this morning and the forces of sameness were totally marshaling to get me back on track. ‘back on track’ aka in the same old rut. (Funny how the truisms of life seem to be dual purpose, isn’t it?)

Anyway, as Ellias McDaniels, (no fair looking the name up! If I’m going to all the effort and social risk of getting obscure, then the least you can do is allow me the pleasure of your response that you know the reference.*), would say…

So, why the Monday Post? Two reasons:

I’m trying to side-step my internal critic (that part of me who knows the true measure of my abilities and is kind enough to not let me write anything thats not up to the standards that I should be living up to)
I’m in self-improve-by-virtue-of-better-organizing-my-time mode. (Tell me that thats not the single most aggravating aspect of your day!) Well, tell me that, if you’re a clark. Speaking of which, how long has it been since I’ve written a ‘hey! this is the Wakefield Doctrine! you wanna hear about the best personality theory you’re ever going to hear about?’
thanks! whoever that was in the back of the room (metaphorically speaking) and speaking of back of the class… can anyone out there tell me the personality type who gravitates to the back of the class, the back of the lecture hall, the back of the crowd at the annual awards ceremony and the front of the car? I’ll give you some time. Hell! I’ll give you the rest of this morning to answer.

So, the Wakefield Doctrine is an approach to personality types that will allow you to know more about the other person than they know about themselves. With the Doctrine, you will no longer have ask the world, ‘how could I fall for that again! I really thought I knew them better than that!!’
With the Wakefield Doctrine as (an) additional perspective on life, (and that’s what it and every other ‘theory’ of ‘personality’ actually is, and I’m totally including the Oscar Myers Briggs&Stratton, the ‘what color is my vegetable’ (current fav on ‘the Facebook’) and Jung’s ‘What!?! No, I’m not saying that Fred and Wilma were real, I’m saying that archetypes…never mind!’) personality theories. With the Wakefield Doctrine you will be in position to see the other people in your life in a context that allows their behavior to make sense. And that’s all any of us want, isn’t it?**

Well, running out of time this morning, so the basics:

clarks the Outsider: the simplest way to describe this personality type (and to test yourself for clarklike tendencies) is that this person wakes up each and every morning thinking, ‘ok the world and everyone is still out there, I know I can figure it out today’
scotts the Predator: the person most like to be voted: jeez! I’d love to be able to be like that,…. scotts will bound out of bed, ready for whatever is waiting, and they know there’s something waiting outside the bedroom door/at the office/among the kids at the daycare and that annoying woman who is so judgmental
rogers the Herd Member: if you got a little annoyed at the (numbered) bullet points because I clearly said ‘two’ and you have a certain confidence that everything that must be achieved in your day will be, if for no other reason than the fact that your list has the important things at the top; rogers don’t wake up thinking, they wake up planning, and they most assuredly do not bound out of bed, one could sprain an ankle being so reckless, and besides, there’s no rush, the schedule is simple and well established.

…gotta run (or walk (or stroll)) out into the world.

*totally a clark thing, if you respond, ‘yeah, clark, who do you love’ I will feel a surge of pride in my getting to hang out with people who are of a place that allows them to know a semi-obscure musical reference (and that’s that only hint you get!)

** yeah, that is a trick question

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TTo(reprint)T -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…like sand through the hourglass, these are the grains of our lifes’

September 10, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Reprint from the First Year August 20 2013 … or maybe August 2001… and you totally need to click here for the really cool part

(Did you click on some of the links of the participants? Mr Peabody be totally eating his heart out.)

So, the reprint is from 2013, that’s 3 years times 10 equals 30 Items!

1) minimus cum irreductibile: Ms L and her co-hostinae and this here bloghop here

2) Una and Phyllis

3) Gravity Challenge… this is the second year, can you believe that?!

4) ‘Almira’ Chapter 24 due out this weekend. Very cool this book writing thing. This time last week I was all, ‘oh man! what am I gonna do?! There’s Dorothy and Eliza marching into St Mary’s, all bold as can be, to see the woman who is in the Charity Ward and here we are, that woman, or rather her story from when she was 16 years old in 1912. How the hell do I account for 27 years? Lucky for me I discovered that Cyril Sauvage (Emily Gale’s older brother who died in the Battle of the Marne in 1918) went to Dartmouth before he enlisted! So the rest is…well, you’ll have to read the Chapter. If you want a preview (sorta) try this Six Sentence Story. (you know… it’s an established fact that Cyril and Sterling went to Dartmouth… and, even as I type, I’m picturing the dates for this to work and… and they line up!… well, how many readers had relatives come and visit them at college, with, say a younger brother or sister come for a Fall Homecoming Weekend or something… maybe go to the Mixer…meet someone…. damn! I’ve said too much already)

5-8) the Reprint below (especially the old links)

9) Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

10) SR 1.3

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

I am ‘happy’ to have another Post to contribute to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. Created by Considerer with the aid, support, encouragement and participation of Christine and them, this is not your typical bloghop. While there is nothing wrong with the ‘typical’ bloghops (I participate in the Twisted MixTape Tuesday run by Jen (My Skewed View) and Kristi (Finding Ninee) and Finish The Sentence Friday Janine ( ‘mommyholic) and Kate (‘bottle of Whine) and Stephanie (‘for Real) and Kristi.

What makes our TToT different is that it is a true ‘weekend blog hop’. By that I simply mean that it starts this morning and ends tomorrow night. If you want to participate you can do so at any time this weekend…and (here’s the difference) people come and read and Comment throughout the weekend, so if you have trouble today (I am a great example, I have to work today, so I’ll get this Post in and read who ever is around…later in the middle of the day, I’ll pop in and see whats going on…then the end of the day and so on). And… Comments? thats a little different here too! Jump in anywhere we totally believe in cross commenting. So… I think I have put this off as long as I can… my List of Ten Things:

(…yeah, I know!)

(too late to quit now!)

(…lets wrap this up!)

Ok… I had fun doing this…. (did someone just imply that they were….?)

Number 10 I am grateful that I am able to submit the above as my TToT of this Week.

We’re here all weekend (‘try the veal’) Be sure to tip your Waitress… and Comment (‘dammit! Jim I’m a Wakefield Doctrine writer, not a videographer!)

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 25, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Ok. here I am at Wednesday Night. I have the ‘story’, but I’ve come to believe that I shouldn’t bet on what I hit publish on, at least until Thursday morning. For the moment I have what I consider to be the most fun ‘story’ I can come up with…at least for a Wednesday night.
Which, by the way, if you’re just joining us for the first time, this is zoe’s Six Sentence Story. It’s a bloghop that challenges us to write a story of six (and only six) sentences …the prompt word for this week is ‘suspect’.

“Who do you suspect?” I asked, hoping the cigarette smoke would mask the expression of doubt that I suspected was beginning to show on my face.

“Why the suspect, of course!” Try as she might, her face betrayed a certain suspicion of my interest.

“I knew that, however, your logic is rather suspect,” I smiled and pulled the blankets over my head, blocking out the cheery sunlight, totally covering my face, more than anything else, I didn’t want her to suspect.

“Well, for a minute there, I was doubting your confidence in me,” I suspected she would say that and pulled the revolver from under my pillow.