the Wakefield Doctrine

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

Yeah. 2014:

1. Resolution #3 is to keep these Posts under 800 words.
2. …well, because we have the Wakefield Doctrine Saturday Night Drive  (  hey…Cyndi!!  amazing job this past year illustrating successful clarks in a world full of scottian temptation and rogerian bridge trolls   lol)
3. and,  …and! the first year with the Wakefield Doctrine Friday Night well-yeah,-I-could-be-out-with-friends-but-I-decided-to-stay-in-no!-seriously-my-choice! Vid Chats  (Kristi!!  thanks for that ‘tell us all a dirty joke’ idea! How can we miss with a feature like that!)
4. Sunday’s Video Brunch, where it all started (Lizzi and Michelle… sine tu non, binyons!)
5. the Book!  someone out there remind me next February 17th that I better have a completed manuscript-tina
6. thanks
7. TToT  …if the Wakefield Doctrine is Tom Swift Jr then the TToT is Nancy Drew
8. watch out for the blogger formerly known as DownSpring#1… she will be demonstrating the Doctrine in terms that, like Jeff Beck listening to Jimi Hendrix, most of us will be lucky if we get a small portion of the magic to be seen in the path she has found herself on
9. of dogs and life and the simple path, the thrilling adventures of zoe and skip (you know,  Sherman and Mr. Peabody… )
10. I suspect we will prevail on old friends to re-join us…not changing our forward path and not adding information, but enhancing the experience…thinking Molly and AKH and glenn
11. new friends ( if you suspect I’m thinking of you, you are probably right….this is the Wakefield Doctrine, after all!  did we say the thing about, how, with the Wakefield Doctrine you will know more about the other person than they know about themselves??  we did?   well,  did we say the thing about how, with the tools available in the Wakefield Doctrine, you will know things about that total stranger that you have totally no business knowing?   that too, huh?  wait,  …wait!  how about the part that we all have one predominant worldview and the capacity to experience the world as do the ‘other two’ which makes the Wakefield Doctrine the perfect path to self-developing ourselfs?  damn!!  you people know everything!   (hey  hey!!!   there’s this ‘saying’ that I’ve always wanted to say or to have ‘come up in a conversation’….I know this is contrived but, seeing how Lizzi has provided encouragement to embrace my inner roger and such, I just say….  screw it! here goes),  “hey DownSprings!!  as we start this New Year, let me remind you that while I’ve taught you everything that you know about the Wakefield Doctrine, I haven’t taught you everything that I know about the Wakefield Doctrine’
12. that felt good!  damn!  I may projectile vomit (metaphorically, of course) in the coming months as we push the boundaries of the Doctrine, but I know that with everyone heading out into the world with notepads in hand, coming back and adding to what we all can use and benefit from and have a laugh with… this should be a not-half bad year.
13. …I will stop at word 458

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

So, what’s the deal with the ‘hey, that’s a pretty funny/clever/cute/edgy Post over at that Wakefield place, did you read it?’  ….said no one, in the course of the last few months?

(excuse the ego/insecurity, but the simple fact of the matter is that I am a clark and currently in the midst of wondering if I am still writing as good a quality Post as I have in recent years. If the Doctrine teaches us anything, it teaches us that hell hath no self-directed scorn as a clark thinking that he/she is letting the crowd down.) Now, if you have been following along in your Wakefield Doctrine Study Guides, you can surely hear the rogers whisper “clark, buddy, what makes you think there is a crowd? lighten up” and the scotts laugh, “HEY!! fuck ’em!!  you’re havin fun and a couple of people seem to enjoy it, right? no problem”

No problem indeed.

How cool is this Doctrine? Only few short years ago, when the topic of blogs and blogging came up in conversation, I would be all, ‘do these people really have such egos that they believe that anyone really cares about what they think about how their day is going, what they are having for dinner or how lucky they are to have such a great family??!’  Yet, here I am, standing in front of a metaphorical crowd, saying, ‘oh man!  I used to write really good shit and it was funny and clever and everything….ya gotta believe me!’  (lol!)

ok self-indulgence time is over!  everyone back to their places, please.

Funny or serious, clever or immature, ponderous or subtle, the reason for this blog and these Posts is to present the Wakefield Doctrine to as wide an audience as possible. And the reason for doing this? I believe that the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique and useful and fun way to understand the behavior of the people in our lives. For those of us with a need to understand the world around us, and the people in our lives and (those of us) with a drive to improve our capacity to enjoy this one life we that we have, the Wakefield Doctrine is a tool.   It is also an insight…..and an aid in understanding….and a set of Xray specs….and a secret diary-that-no-one-except-the-person-who-appreciates-us-for-what-we-really-are will ever read.  That is why there is a Wakefield Doctrine blog. You’re invited to join us.

(Now!  since part of the tone here is all Stephanie’s fault! ( see her Comment in yesterday’s Post) and since I promised her some ‘adult content’ (with appropriate Parental Warnings!!!)  here is my favorite dirty joke**:

A business man walks into the waiting area at the airline terminal, he is well dressed, carrying a laptop computer and has a black eye. Seeing one empty seat in the row of seats nearest the departure gate he walks over and sits down. He immediately notices that the guy in the next seat has a black eye and says, “jeez what are the odds!! you have a black eye just like me!”  The other traveler smiles and says, “damn!  you’re right! But how I got this shiner was pretty surprising. Want to hear about it?”  “Damn right I do!”  “Well”, he begins, ” I walked up to the ticket counter to check my boarding pass and instead of asking for my tickets to Pittsburgh, I said to the very attractive young woman, ‘I want a picket to Titsburgh’  and bam!! she hit me so fast I didn’t see it coming. The mouse under my eye is the result of my innocent slip of the tongue.”
The first business man is shaking his head and smiling to himself.  “I can’t believe the odds against that happening to both us. The exact same thing happened to me!! I was at the breakfast table with my wife this morning and I was asking her to please pass the butter but instead I said, ‘you fucking bitch, you’ve ruined my life!’

some comedy from the nineties and some music from the seventies

(tell me I ain’t got the demographics covered):

** there is a rumor that the Wakefield Doctrine Video Chats have a ‘dirty joke contest’ that is, as of yet, totally un-substantiated.

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

Welcome to the TToT…  (‘the bloghop that Lizzi built‘).

Several weeks ago it was announced that the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop would be on hiatus for the Christmas to New Year’s holiday period. Those of us who have come to look forward to the weekends because of: a) the mingling (metaphorically, of course) and b) the give and take (with an amazing spirit of camaraderie) and c) the banter (especially as it is ‘tween the clarks and the scotts)  were, all like,  ‘hold on there!! no weekend assignment of Ten Things?  what the hell! And, as we all know, even though our leaderina deserved a little break at the end of the year, we ended up writing a TToT post of our (individually) own. So, that there should be an official, sanctioned and approved-of-by-6-out-7-of the GuardVirgins, ‘Last TToT bloghop of 2013’,  should come as a surprise to no one.
In fact, lest a Reader stumbling upon this blog for the first time, be confused… the TToT is not a normal, run of the mill, fun-if-you’re-in-with-the-right-people bloghop. Being a weekend bloghop, there is no one day rush to get a Post in so it will appear high on the list and (therefore) garner the most Comments. And there is no feeling that only certain writers get Commented on, (I know for a fact that Lizzi and a number of the co-hosts read every single Post that shows up over the course of a weekend). And this is how a bloghop should be, it is what Ms. R set out to create way back in the spring…a community of people. Hell,  if anything, this  TToT is like that one dorm room on a Thursday night,  or that  one car, in back row of the High School parking lot, where you see people veer towards, on the way to school (or more) after classes end on a Friday).¹

At least, for me this blog has become the malt shoppe/the community center/the dorm room/the car/ the preferred hangout/open house with near-unlimited potential for… fun.

Pretty much what our founderette say she wanted to build, back when it all started. (hey!!  whatever month that was? if you go ahead and put the Wakefield Doctrine down for: when the bloghop started.)^2,3,

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

(simple as, no?)

“year’s end with friends meeting.”  (yeah, Shakespeare via Shirley Jackson… paraphrased ’cause I’m a clark)

March wasn’t bad.⁴

September, October, November and December were good…^5,6,7

January and February had the virtue of passing quickly.^8,9

The Summer months,  well!  they were the warm/not-cold, sunny/even when it rained, best of all, stayed light until night.¹⁰

…in any event. even though I happened to be in the right place at the right time when the TToT started  (“…so it’s agreed!! we’ll have 9 talented and popular writers be the co-hosts so that our Readers will be treated to sensitive, insightful and sharing Posts!  what?  who?  I don’t know…I thought he was with you?  Christine?  …no, I have no idea?  I’m not so sure… pretty strange…. yeah what the hell!!  lets have 10 hosts…. hey!! you  YChrome!, yeah, we’re talking to you…” ) I am grateful for the opportunity to be associated with this here group here. And there is no where near as high a level of cruelty as you might have heard from some…of the more….shady characters known to frequent this place.

(and besides!  …name one other bloghop that has: a Book of Secret Rules; 7 GuardVirgins and encourages the participants to interrupt and otherwise jump into the Comment threads of total strangers.)
12) I can hear the teachers among you (no, why would I be looking at you Christine…or Dyanne? ) “well, Mr Wakefield, if you had spent half the time you spent typing in those little footnote thingies and simply followed directions you might have come up with something a little less… unusual”?

yeah I seemed to have some messed up code…will try to get the correct words from L