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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘waiting for the hummingbird… the spiders tremble in fear and resignation’*

May 21, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

right there… upper right hand corner of the window ..’Araignée automat’

Gotta hurry! (It’s 8:55 pm and I’m working on Chapter 8 of Almira and I’m fading fast. This is critical point in most evenings, the low point of the day’s energy, when the call of the ‘you’ve done a good day’s work, you are entitled to rest’ is at it’s loudest. Like a half-heartedly aggressive hooker, calling from a second storey window as I walk along a city sidewalk, the power inherent in the temptation resides within me, not in her. It’s necessary for me to decide that, ‘sure I can get up in the morning and write then!’ … leaving my ambition sitting on the stoop, waiting for my return.)

OK! (I can see our Miss Lewis and the other co-hostinae looking increasingly aghast at my ‘introduction’ to this week’s TToT. Some, (of the co-hostinae), have that look of projectile empathy as they come to realize that I seem to be in the cottony grip of a full-on SOC attack. “get Kerry on the line, stat! maybe she can talk him down!”)

Weekly bloghop. Ten Things (of) Thankful. Great creation by Lizzi, and amazing community maintained by the co-hostinae.

1) the Wakefield Doctrine and Una.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzeqipsilik

2) Phyllis (who I just heard pull up the driveway….hold on….)

3) ok time to write some more or go to sleep

4)… well that certainly didn’t go as expected!

5) ‘Almira‘ Chapter 8 due out this weekend(ish). I mention this as a Grat Item because it, i.e.writing a serial novel, will hopefully develop my writing skills to the point that I can write the kind of ‘Wakefield Doctrine Book’ that our little personality theory truly deserves.
So, about ‘Almira’! f|For those falling behind, in Chapter 7, we read as all the major characters headed out into a Saturday with nothing but the best of intentions, the highest of hopes, the certainty that things will work for the best. Chapter 8 picks up from there. Chapter 8, if I were using subtitles, would be ‘Early Saturday Evening’ ‘Later Saturday Night’. We watch as they head out for their evenings, in Circe Kansas and Berwyn Pennsylvania and (looking back in time), Lawrence Massachusetts. And, we sit up and wait for their return.

6) The Graviteers of ‘the Gravity Challenge’ inspiring people, each and everyone of them. (The cool thing about ‘the Challenge’ is that, while it’s an entirely personal affair (GC personal challenge motto: “one woman/man, one scale, one camera“) the point is that each of us knows what it’s like for the others. This identification is, I would submit, one of the most (something)things in human experience, at once incredibly powerful, occasionally exciting and always beneficial.

7) totally want to express my semi-unreserved enthusiastic gratitude for the near-Spring that we’ve been enjoying for the last ~~few~~ c~~ouple of week~~… yesterday. The weather, here in New England, has been great…. for late March. lol (like last year, the weather seems to be about 6 weeks off on the calendar). Zoe’s probably still shoveling snow to get to her car.

8) The Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules). These ‘rules’, while secret and (nearly) impossible to find, are the key to my non-pressured enjoyment in this bloghop. I think every bloghop should adopt a BoSR/SBoR.

9) work… well, it helps when I need a break from writing! (lol… not ‘ha ha’ lol, more… ‘hmm-theres-volumes-in-that-chuckle-don’t-you-think’ lol

10) Happy Birthday to Cynthia (totally grateful for the fact that my timeline includes knowing this remarkable clark)

* so, as everyone knows. my ‘desk’ is facing out the windows in my office/spare bedroom** and from here, I can look out into the woods and Nature and such. As everyone knows, I’m like totally not a fan of our 8-legged woodland friends, but have, with the help of the Doctrine and the steady advance of years, arrived at a certain comfort in adopting a ‘live and let live (provided we’re never in the same room) attitude towards these abominations of Nature. In any event, as they do each ‘Spring’, the little bastards build a home in the corner of the window that I look out of. Fortunately, they build on the outside of the window. This works, because, as long as I don’t focus my eyes, their incredibly delicate webs are a blur… like a Christmas decoration at the corners of my windows, except instead of icicles, there are hanging carcasses of hapless flying insects who stumbled into the web and struggling in terror, live their last seconds in this beautiful world, watching as the predator-with-too-many-legs skitters towards them to kill and eat them. Not anywhere near as charming as that fricken Charlotte would have us fall for…. ‘screw you Charlotte!! May the newspaper god shadow your last remaining moments on this earth!!!’ Where was I?! oh yeah! the cool thing is I’ve got a hummingbird coming around for breakfast most mornings! A little buffet ala arachnida ja ja! Still trying to get quick enough on the camera to catch a photo.

** yeah! just like Tom Fearing’s office!

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11 Web Pages Open -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘clarks and the seduction of creativity’

May 18, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Funny, the process becomes the end in itself.

It’s a matter of fact that. of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, clarks are the creative ones. That being said, we have the ‘Everything Rule’ to remind us that, ‘everything happens to everyone, at one time or another’. So, when it comes to creativity as a quality (available) to people of the three worldviews, it’s not correct to say that scotts and rogers are not/cannot be creative, they can! It’s simply that how (a quality) such as ‘creativity’ manifests is where the difference lies. (And the cool thing is, when you consider the manner in which a thing/quality/characteristic exists for each, the character of that personal reality becomes all the more easily appreciated). Lets take creativity. (please!)

clarks will create (or perhaps it might be more accurate, if not more obscure to say), bring into existence that which has never existed before

rogers will create by taking that which exists (be they tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper) and reconfigure, re-arrange into something unlike any previous arrangement of (tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper)

scotts will take from themselves that which exists within everyone else and present it in a context that no one has, (or can recall), witnessing before

there! pretty simple, isn’t it?

clarks create, rogers innovate and scotts evoke

so the Post subtitle? why do I seem to cast creativity in the role of a temptation that might be better off fed? Because as clarks, we create because we’re Outsiders, we are able to create because we’re Outsiders and, yet, we cannot create within ourselfs the thing that might change our Outsider natures.

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TTOmovieT -the Wakefield Doctrine- no, despite what I claim in the intro, I couldn’t pull it off…oh well, still time to go normal

May 14, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

“ok, good start, we’re all willing to believe that you’ll walk the straight and normal for this week’s TToT!”

So we all know how this bloghop works, correct? Ten things that inspire in you, prompt from you, stimulate, initiate, or otherwise cause you (the participant) to experience a feeling of gratitude. Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Well for some people. Some people are naturally fluent in the language of emotion. They not only have available a gigantic palette of feelings (to mix up this here metaphor, here), they are blessed with an ear for emotions. And there are people who are naturally inclined to organize and, by organizing present their List (or groups or collections of like objects) in a manner most easily understood by everyone (else).

For the rest of us, we have the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules), and this is (one of) the things that makes this a remarkable ‘hop. It allows everyone/anyone to participate. Not only does the BoSR/SBoR help those of us who might benefit by a little help, it sanctions the broader expanse of expression that not only offers a certain variety, but it also provides a greater variety of reading fun and enjoyment for those participating and those who just happen to stop by.

So, what’s up with this Week’s Post Title? Welll! let me tell you. This week has been a week of remembering some of the fun of my early days in this blog world. Such as the Post based on a TV commercial or, today’s (at the time of writing, yesterday when you read this) chance quote from a book. The energy would pop up and I’d write me a Post. Today’s TToT title is an example of another type of blogging fun, grab a premise and write my way out of it. In other words, I seem to be proposing a List using, referring to or something to do with movies! What the hell! Clearly we can see how it is I came to be ‘comfortable’ with the seat-of-the-pants writing that I’ve done for ‘Blogdominion‘ and ‘Almira‘. Start writing and see where it takes ya.

Item 1: the Wakefield Doctrine All kinds of good things about this… in the simplest of terms, were it not for the Doctrine, I am certain I would not be typing in a blog. So… what movie, what movie… hey, lets use the clip from ‘Mad Dog and Glory’ with David Caruso (as the scott), Robert DeNiro (as the clark) and some actor whose name I don’t know (as the roger). this was the second film clip that I found when I started writing the Doctrine blog (advisory: adult language)

Item 2: Una! (boy am I in trouble! Item 2 and I can’t find the videos I would have sworn were there

damn… lets try

Item 3: ‘Almira‘ (I’m currently in the midst of artistic crisis, i.e. ‘what the hell was I thinking? I can’t write a book and even if I could, a book based on a story that everyone knows… so I can’t totally wing it?? what the hell was I thinking?!?!’ I am grateful for the Readers of Almira in Chapter 7 (to be released tomorrow, Monday at the very latest) in which we should discover: that Tom Hardesty is very talented and really needs to do something with his music, Eliza is about to meet someone who isn’t just interested in her body and money like her current houseguest, Stephen Lawrence (who is only there because his father needs more money for the school, well, that and the fact that Eliza is remarkably hot) and we get to know our little friend, Becky Stillworth who, at the library for a warm June Saturday, finds herself increasingly fascinated by farmhand (at the Gale Farm) Hunk Dietrich and… the best part, we go back, just for a while, to 1912 and find out more about Almira Ristani’s life as a young girl.

Item 4: Phyllis (who has relatives who live in Colorado…. and though this video wasn’t on a trip to see them… actually it was a business trip/Doctrine road trip )

Item 5: work and work: surely there’s a movie out there that I can get a clip from that exemplifies the virtue of good work and steadfast effort.

Item 6: the Gravity Challenge (now this should be easy enough) 5 intrepid bloggers engaged in the struggle with gravity…

(hint one of the Graviteers has a similar name, but then another one of them lives on a farm, and still another also has blonde hair and…and! a 4th lives in Chicago (which is kinda like New York*), one makes me think of the Nation’s capital (but that was a different episode) and of all of the Graviteers only one is named kristi)

Item 7: the people I know here, in the virtual world hey! I just remembered Cynthia totally used to do some cool videos… lets see if I can find them

got one! (thanks out to Cynthia… I’d say she’s an inspiration, but that’d be less (and more) than I want to say, lets try for a made up word (no! no way! lol) we’re really big into ‘identification’ here at the Doctrine, especially and in particularly with other clarks… being Outsiders we tend to come up a little short when the most common (and btw effective) advice is “hey! don’t worry, everyone feels like that/goes through that/thinks that at one time or another” while not disputing the correctness of that observation, as clarks we lack the key element… of being like anyone else (Outsider, ya know?) anyway way, Cynthia is demonstrating that clarks can self-develop themselves way beyond what we might think and so, here in this Video she illustrates this fact (not simply what she’s saying on the video, that fact of how she comes across to the viewer…that’s the encouraging and impressive part)

Item 8: god! I better come up with something! hey! doug! yo! Friend of the Doctrine zoe is totally the Christopher Nolan of those of us who would make videos for Post…. production values? damn straight. Anyway Click on this Link and (at the bottom of the Post) are three vids that she did with Meester Douglas (and one by yours truly that’s like…jeez a little talkative?)

Item 9: still nothing! wait wait! (I just saw a comment from Kerry.…. hey! she’s done some vids (rummaging through old links and posts and such)…. got it! Here kinda roundabout… a Link to a Post on another’s site but it’s a song that had lyrics by Kerry’s brother… so that qualifies for today’s theme!
[STOP the PRESSES!!! Alert Reader and professional clark, Denise (over at Girlie) totally caught my misnomer** on the credits for the song!! The Lyrics is by Kerry and the music is by her Brother. OK re-start the PRESSES!!!]

Item 10: SR 1.3 and am I totally grateful for getting through this post! In all humility I will say, I have totally raised the bar for Trainwreck BlogPosts (category: TToT)

* where the Douglas’ are from…of course

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘special Friday the Fridayth Post!’

May 13, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Hey, this being the week of remembering the fun of the old days of writing for the Doctrine, to wit, the spontaneous, single thought or sentence or idea which amounts to the push of the sled down the icy street.*

So I was just researching the famous ‘Bread and Roses Strike’ (Lawrence Ma 1912) for ‘Almira‘. (Non-Spoiler Alert!!: Almira Gulch, at the time of the Strike was 16 year old, not yet married and therefore was Almira Ristani, not only witnessed the Strike, but become involved in it on a very personal level. Hint: she tried to send her younger brothers off to relatives during the ill-fated ‘Children Affair’, which, as I’ve come to learn, sort of marks the nadir of the Strike.) Anyway. I was reading a book on the strike and the author wrote,

“Many (Historians) have also come across the saying, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

I’d not come across that expression before, and, like in the early Doctrine days, I was all, ‘damn, what a great way to say it’

Anyway. There it is. Our public past is of the record, engraved in the collective memory of family and friends, communities and cultures. While it is a given that the rise of commercials for genealogy websites and companies that offer to help you discover your past (or, at least, the cast of that ‘longest running of plays’), is pretty much a rogerian thing, it nevertheless represents a need we all share. Especially nowadays among all, in response to an increasingly institutionalized present to seek out one’s personal past. Of course, our tour guide for a trip like this is surely suspect. These tour guides not only are not professional or otherwise trained, rather are amateurs who happen to seem like nice and well-meaning enough that we think, yeah, sure…. lets go explore my past history for the last (fill in years since born), why not?

“...the past is a foreign country: they do things differently.”

Gotta get back to work!

(Now! if only Kristi and them at Finish the Sentence Friday did a sentence fragment that has to do with our personal history, I’m golden.)

*when I was young…. lol wait, wait!! hear me out!! winter? we had sleds then, these wooden things with metal skids and pointed (metal!) ends that you twisted (the metal!!) rails to steer… anyway, there was one street, Penguin Ave (I know! I have trouble remembering appointments coming up this weekend, but you want to know the name of a street that I didn’t live on when I was 10 years old? I totally got it covered!!) anyway, it was steep and ended in an intersection with a cross street, Potowomut Rd. The town workers used to ‘forget’ to sand the street, for at least a day after a snowstorm, so as not to wreck the excellent sledding. Now that’s a common occurrence nowadays, isn’t it?

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Sentence of Sixosity -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 12, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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‘Address’

It¹ says that ‘Address’ is the word. Of course, that’s only part of the problem, (well, maybe a component of the problem). The problem is that ‘Address’ is only one word. The Challenge that zoe poses to you and me and that woman who types when no one is looking (and wishes that she had the nerve, of barring that, was the kind of person who didn’t mind people watching and judging), in this, the Six Sentence Story blog….hop. thing.

So all we gots to do is spin a yarn that incorporates the word (or failing that, the idea of the word (and, failing that…has at least one word with half the letters already in it… sort of like an incomplete palindrome… the word that implies one word when read in one direction and implies a similar, but different (often mistaken for) word when read in the other direction.)
There! all warmed up!

“I believe, Class, that I have sufficiently addressed the impossibility of co-incidence of an emotional experience.”

“But Professor, speaking on behalf of the class, and therefore the final arbiter of the persuasiveness, if not the validity of your proof, while we will concede the non-reproducibility of any occurrence, we do not accept your conclusion.”

“Have I not amply demonstrated (and therefore addressed) the impossibility of the exact duplication of a what is, by definition, non-definable, i.e. a subjective experience? To quote our Latin friends, ‘argumentum ad lapidem’, it that how you would characterize the last 60 minutes?

“Mu”

“Well, my fine zen students, be that as it may, (and next week’s assignment is to quantify that little statement), I’m not refunding your tuition!”

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you wanna hear a really stupid song from the 60s? This came on the radio on my way to the office yesterday…and, it took at least a couple of minutes of “is that who I think it is” nah…no way….. oh man, the lyrics are so 60s, but it is!!”

1) what are you looking down here for? hoping that there’d be something to make sense of the above? sort of a reverse of the classic visual meme, the child on bended knee, eyes upwards in hope of explanation and/or divine intersecession

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