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TToTime -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘were it possible for time to run backwards, would you let it?’

August 13, 2016 By

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

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what? why no! the inference of the 10 Co-hosts of this bloghop was the furthest thing from my mind. … but, well,

Just in case you were wondering, the TToT is the abrivaname for ‘Ten Things of Thankful’ which is the Title, Instructions and Goal of the bloghop created by Our Miss Lewis.

1)  First item with a total bullet!  zoe’s gift!  words are puny, I will post a video:

( my youtube thing doesn’t seem to work, try clicking on the photo or trying clicking on this )

2) From this gift I will generalize and say that I am totally grateful for the virtual world. I could say, ‘I’m grateful for technology, for the computers and phones to form the internet’, but that would not quite be what I’m referring to. I’m talking about the virtual world with it’s virtual people. The place where we can fly and we can hide in plain view, we can sit at any table in the cafeteria that we want, but, now because of the nature of the virtual world, I can find others to sit with me. At the price of ‘pinch me I’m dreaming’, I have the ability to interact with people all over the planet. This is critical, not just because the planet’s a big place, but because, when you get right down to it, the number of people who are qualified to become your friend is pretty small. Add to this the fact that in the ‘real’ world, we come into actual contact with a very small number of people. There are only so many cashiers at the 7/11 or teachers in high school or day care providers or yoga instructors or relatives or the person who cuts the grass. The virtual world isn’t just crowded with people, but everyone is right here in this room.

3) Una went to the spa today. (I was nervous, she enjoyed herself). As you can see in the photos, Una is a very long-haired dog. The problem is, unlike most dogs, Una does not like water. Rain or wading pools or even garden hoses. So we found a place, (yes, I did go visit the groomers in person before we made the final decision, lol).  What tipped the scales? Among the list of services on their website:  mud bath and nail wraps…. not 100% certain what either of those entail, but I liked the sounds of it.  (0f course, there are photos!)

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well, Phyllis and I can tell the difference… lol

4) Writing this Friday evening, leaving the morning (before work) for working on Chapter 20 of ‘Almira‘  (I’m grateful for the opportunity to not only describe upcoming chapters, but to recount the events (of the story) that might not make it into ‘print’. Hey!  call that #5!  In any event, the challenge for me at this point is to focus on Almira’s life after she leaves Lawrence. We have to get through the strike, the famous Bread and Roses Strike of 1912, before she and Sterling can begin their own life in early 20th century America. There are some literary logistics that I have to learn to accelerate the timeline of Almira’s story so that it catches up with Dorothy’s. On that front, by job is made much simpler by the fact that Eliza dropped in for a surprise visit in Circe. Eliza is kinda fun. So, that helps, thanks for listening.

6) Lizzi and the co-hostinae (any resemblance to the co-hostinae in the Waterhouse painting above is purely coincidental. They are totally worth singling out, for keeping this bloghop going for the, what, 5 or 7 years has it been? well, as they say,  good ideas tend to provide their own source of energy.

7) Speaking of impressive, Abigail is going back to school. At least I’m calling it, that because it’s fun to refer to almost everything in terms of school. She mentioned, on ‘the Facebook’, that she beginning a course that will run for the rest of the year. She tried to say that she’ll be flat-out busy with studies and such and not as likely to be around these parts. Of course, I was all, ‘hey! no way!  you totally need to tell us all about it.’  (but then again, my minor in college was, Skipping Class, at least it was in my freshman year. Once I discovered my real major, I was all over the attendance thing.) So anyway, I’m looking forward to reading Tales of School from Abbie in the coming weeks. One of my favorite internet things are the glimpses into the lives of people I like.

8) Phyllis

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

10) SR 1.3

 

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re-print Friday3 -the Wakefield Doctrine- ’cause I’m in a ‘words-beget-words’ mode at the moment, but thank you for asking’

July 15, 2016 By

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

(not everyone may know this, but that red building in Chicago? World Headquarters for the Omni Corporation... read all about in 'Blogdominion'

(not everyone may know this, but this red building in Chicago? World Headquarters for the Omni Corporation… read all about it in ‘Blogdominion’2

 

How do I know it’s been too long between ‘normal’ Doctrine Posts? Well, for starters, when I typed the first line, (which is always the first line), of this Post, the fricken spellcheck forgot how to spell ‘theory’!  (I don’t know about you* but I’ve noticed a tendency to, at certain times/moods, where I don’t bother being overly careful with my spelling and, will actually get mad when it, (the spellcheck, not my spelling). doesn’t correct the word fast enough so I don’t have to stop. Anyway, so I’m typing my intro line and when I get to ‘…the theory of…’ I mistype it (no big deal, as I’ve said) but I looked and it corrected to ‘their’, as in ‘…the their of…’ and I’m all, ‘whoa! grasp the telephone receiver firmly and await further instructions’!!1

So, anyway….

Back to my shameless self-promotion. (ed. note: holy smokes! my auto-correct is such a roger!! yeah, I know… no kidding…but  but! I mis-typed the word ‘shameless’ (well, got to stay with the theme of the day, don’t I?) and it corrected to ‘seamless’  lol

‘Almira‘  we’re somehow approaching the half-way point in our story! If you’re not familiar with ‘Almira’… come on! go here and read the story from the start. It’s Summer Time! you can pull up juke pop on your little cell phone and read it at the beach… although I should warn you, a major part of our tale takes place in Lawrence Massachusetts in 1911-1912…. in the winter! brrr! In any event, my seeming surprise at where I am in the novel is quite genuine, in that I’m taking is what I believe is called ‘seat of the pants’  approach to writing. I write by the Chapter, literally. Have no idea how this thing ends. That is, of course, the fun and exciting (and impressively stressful) result seat-of-the-pants writing.

Oh well, what am I gonna do.  Chapter 15 due out this weekend… Dorothy is forced to accept that there is something wrong in her life, and at the same time, something quite exciting (not giving anything away, but Tom Hardesty is there at her time of need and gives her a ride home), Eliza meets Hunk Dietrich and she’s not half as surprised at his response to her as he is… and, is it me, or is Dr. Thaddeus Morgan growing shorter and more …. Professor Marvel-istic  like the guy in that other story?

Hey, really have enjoyed our time together this morning.

 

* well, that’s not quite true, I do know about you… a lot, too much you might say, all due to the totally fun and useful theory of clarks, scotts and rogers!**

1)  …. you non-old Readers might fail to to feel the pleasure of the idiom ‘hold the phone‘…. because at a certain time in history, it was not a given that your telephone was not in your hand already, as in ‘all-the-damn-time, like,-why-don’cha-get-it-surgically-attached-save-yourself-some-valuable-texting-time-not-having-to-pick-it-up…. wait, that was a joke! no, I don’t think they have that yet.

2) ‘Blogdominion’ the first in the Sister Margaret Ryan Series.

** I will tell you! I know the characteristics of the personal reality of the three personality types so well, that I don’t need to make a conscious effort anymore (“…hmmm lets, see…’has a tendency to never throw anything away, keeping tupperware in the refrigerator as long as there are more than 2 adjacent molecules of foodstuffs, clinging, rattling-around-on-the-bottom, or giving the hint of color to the edge of the top, believes in using only one set of bath towels at a time, always re-washing the same set, rather than cycling sets, believes that the movie-making sun rises and sets on Ken Burns…. roger!  got it!) and so, when I meet people, a part of my mind is observing the person through the ‘lens’ of the Wakefield Doctrine. Very helpful!

3) huh! didn’t need an old post, after all!

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- of Serial stories, rogerian expressions and old Leon Russell albums.*

July 4, 2016 By

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

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now, this is an old school Wakefield Doctrine blog Post!

So I’m surfing the channels on this faux Sunday afternoon, (aka a Monday holiday), and I come across a reality show by the name of, ‘Wicked Tuna’. I like the ocean and the idea of being out on a boat, so naturally, I tarried a bit and what do I hear, from one of the characters but,  “this seemed like a good spot, and everyone got out of their bunks and out on deck. We had to wait a bit, so everyone could shake the cobwebs out of their eyes”

damn!  rogerian expression!

that!  your reaction to reading the line from the show, that’s how you know you’ve encountered a genuine rogerian expression. Of course, you can read all about rogers here, on the page on rogers. But a quick and simple description of a rogerian expression is, ‘the deliberate misuse of a nearly correct word (or phrase), expressly aggressive, but assayed from within the context of the herd. …and startlingly funny, too.’

And that’s why I love the Wakefield Doctrine. It’s always there and, like your first serious girlfriend (or boyfriend), there’s this sense of having something special that you know that everyone else knows nothing of, at least, not the parts that make you feel good, (when you know you should be feeling bad), or laugh, (when you’d really be more comfortable crying). It’s all about this secret sharing. And even though you know better, after all, you’re not a kid anymore, those moments still, somehow mean more to you than anyone can understand.

Speaking of understanding, Chapter 14 of ‘Almira’ is out and the words are just waiting for you to pull up a comfortable chair and settle in for a quiet time finding out what terrible thing happened to young Almira Ristani, (who you would first know as Almira Gulch, in that scandalously misrepresented tale of ‘the Wizard of Oz’),  back in 1911, on a cold December night. As the subtitle of Almira reminds us all, ‘theres always more to the story’. If you want to start at the start, follow this link here.

(New Readers?  the Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective on the world and the people in our lives. It maintains that there are three ‘personality types’, clarks, scotts and rogers. And, if you learn the characteristics of these three worldviews (personality types), you will be in a position to know more about the people you encounter everyday, than they know about themselves. And, even better, when you recognize a person’s worldview, you’ll know what they’re going to do before they do! It’s simple and it’s fun. Try it!)

*courtesy of ‘the youtube’ an album full of music that took some of the fear from Sunday evenings in a near empty dormitory click here

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The Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 30, 2016 By

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Forgive me for putting such as sentence as this in the beginning of a Post. This, (sentence), will have little or no value to you, the Reader, as it is simply the ‘de-blanking’ of an empty screen. Hey, but, thanks for reading. I cannot help but believe there is a certain, maybe even, not tiny, percentage of you who will smile at this point, recognizing the extent to which some of us are willing to go in order to facilitate the transmission of words from: wherever, through our minds, out our fingers, under the plastic keys and up onto the screen. Whatever it takes. For me, it’s to write something/anything so that I can rearrange what is written into something meeting the requirements of zoe’s  Six Sentence Story.

“Our days are described by the instructions we’ve learned and the instructions we’ve been given,”  Jimmy said solemnly.

“Some appear instinctual, the majority present themselves as learned, but all have the force to compel behavior and therefore give a predetermined shape to our lives, in that I concur,” pronounced Janie, putting down her Crayolas, (which pained her so, being about to apply the ‘Carnation Pink’ against the staid and carefully drawn tropical ‘Rainforest Green’ trees).

“‘You know the drill’ surely is as pervasive in the human experience as, ‘look before you leap’, or ‘watch that first step’, and all are examples of the gentle restraint, fitted to young necks, the better to shackle our minds and contain our spirit”, young Edgar opined, a smoldering resentment fought to spread among the, still tender attitudes in the six-year-old’s mind.

“Even something as seemingly encouraging of creativity as a writing prompt, the drill is presented in unambiguous terms: write a story using no more or no less than six sentences”, the older girl said, ripping up the woody-textured, nearly-white construction paper, feeling a growing excitement, a preview of a life of stimulation and response.

“I no longer wish to act like a child, we’re being trained to be slaves, this must stop now“, Jimmy stood up and walked out into the empty schoolyard, breaking the most basic of Rules.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 16, 2016 By

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So the word is ‘Deck’. The Object (of the Six Sentence Story ‘hop) is to write a story of no more (or less) than six sentences. Pretty simple, isn’t it?  Well, sure, zoe says so! Simple, not easy.

 

Sally and Fred decided to extend the back porch of their house because the backyard, though quiet and attractive, was too un-even in terrain to provide a nice place to sit, and they both thought it’d be nice to be able to have their morning coffee outside, when the weather was nice.

Stan, (Sally’s brother), happened to be a very skilled carpenter but was also an incredibly judgmental and abrasively opinionated man, however, their budget was very tight and they thought it might be nice to help him out, as he seemed to have few clients, despite the high quality of his work.

From the moment he arrived to begin work, Stan responded to the most innocuous or well-intended comment with bile and sarcasm,  as when Sally’s husband, Fred, remarked, “that’s a really good job you’re doing, I used to be pretty handy with a hammer and nails, if you need a hand at any point’,  and without even looking up from what he was doing, Stan snarled, “oh listen to sidewalk expert, telling me how badly I’m doing and how much better he is than me!”

Finally the project was complete, Sally handed her brother the check, (which included a little extra), he glanced at the amount, looked at her and said, “so you think I need your charity, I did the job I said I would and I won’t take a penny more, because I’m an honest person, you should try it sometime.”

As he walked across the backyard to his truck, Sally looked at the gleaming mahogany railings, (with built-in benches), turned to her husband and asked, “So, Fred, what do you think?”

Fred smiled and said, “What a deck.”

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