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March 7, 2025 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

The TToT is one of the more enjoyable forms of spiritual exercise. Unlike other forms of exercise purportedly good for a person. This thing of Lizzi‘s does not require one to sweat excessively (unless, that is, you’re into that… which we are, but strictly seasonal-appropriate, outdoor, stick-that-shirt-to-yer-back-yo) and critically does not mandate excessive conformity.

Being of good intent is the only requirement. How simple is this thing of ours? Consider the people, places and things that have recently inspired you to think/say, ‘I’m thankful for that’.

Pretty simple, isn’t it? Ready to pick up the pen? (ok, rest your fingers on the keyboard). ProTip: Neatness, as a mandatory quality of TToT lists is not overly valued (phew!) That said, stylistically, there are writers here who celebrate in the orderly, raising orderliness to the admirable level… both in presentation and organization. (Thinking of Kristi and Misky). Others, well others’ present a style more akin to a lean-against-your-car-on-a-late-summer-day kinda of conversations, like you see over at Mimi‘s and Dyanne‘s. The more conventional narratives, as exemplified by Lisa and Denise are totally 2nd-year-owned-corduroy-pants (in Autumn)… and, in appreciation of ‘new blood being lifeblood’, we gots Kjersti and Cai and Cat …and, Carin!

…and, then, of course, there’s the Wakefield Doctrine’s remedial spirituality (which is heavy into music and photation in no easily discerned logic)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘Nine Lives‘. by Sally

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) photos on the way to inspections (see Grat #7*)

7) Mountain of Stuff

8) something, something

9) DST yo. It’s totally put-the-Winter-coats-away (well, in the hall closet, no sense getting over-confident, ya know?)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*ok. we’ll stip to this maneuver being somewhat questionable

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “Gonna write a little letter, gonna mail it to my local D.J. …”

March 4, 2025 By clarkscottroger 5 Comments

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

Tuesday. While each day of the week is associated with one of the three personality types and a couple, like multi-associated. (Go! Everything Rule!) Some are totally owned (by a particular predominant worldview).

Tuesdays. clarks.

Don’t ask us why.

lol

No, serially, don’t.

Some things (ok, a lot of things) about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, are in the Realm of the Subjective. Remember how, at the beginning of this blog we described the typical fan/follower as being: intellectually fit, confident in the value of additional perspectives and totally a fan of the odd and unusual side of reality? Yeah, we said that. Look it up.

In any event, mention Tuesday to any Friend of the Doctrine and you’ll hear:

yeah, finally! a day without pre-established debt to the world… whew! no rush
lol fricken clarks…
well, you’re certainly entitled to one day. I don’t think many people would take issue with that. as long as you don’t get carried away with it

Lets go rummage. What’s the point of having endless cardboard boxes of old books and comics and un-assembled model cars and whatnot if you don’t take the phone off the hook*, empty one or two on the floor and see what you can see?

*New/hypo-aged Readers? The expression, ‘take the phone off the hook’ harkens back to the day of two-piece telephones (like the one at the top of the post). If you did that, it wouldn’t ring. (Though it would make a couple of total-movie-meme sounds before going quiet. Including a recorded message that became the working title of our first attempt to write a full-on story. So there is that.)

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Too(s)day the Wakefield Doctrine ( “I think Tuesday is the cutest (of the) Workdays! …like a 2nd date, so full of promise, yet such a potential source of suffering!”)

November 11, 2014

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

so, yesterday we wrote a Post that was built on the following promise:

So here’s what we’ll do: I’ll write a couple of hundred words about the value and use of the Wakefield Doctrine on a typical Monday morning. I’ll stop writing, take a quick shower, get dressed and start my work day². After an hour or so of work, I’ll come back here and ‘re-write’ this post. Let’s see if this ‘oh-my-god-can’t-you-see-how-incredibly-useful-and-fun’ theory of personality accounts for any change in my day.³

Fine. I’ll tell you about my day and the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine. I won’t attempt to re-write yesterday’s Post, for the obvious reasons. (Actually all I want to do is try and come up with something clever (and a touch risqué ) about character of Tuesday). But promises are promises (unless they are threats, and then you need to be more careful of clarks than scotts or rogers by a long shot!)

In the middle of the day yesterday, I had occasion to interact with people I had never met.*
I walk up to the front door, (noting that a person was coming towards the house from across the yard), and knocked on the door. a scott answered. I knew she was a scott from: a) her eyes** and 2) she smiled and stepped forward at the moment of introduction, ‘Hello, I’m clark from….’ ( I laughed to myself and thought, ‘god! I loves this Doctrine’ …and increased the volume of my voice, shortened my sentences and cranked-up my (level) of eye contact.) The meeting went well.
The person I noticed walking across the lawn towards us? (who I ignored because I needed to establish a relationship with the dominant personality) another scott! (he was there to help with the move…) he had no legitimate role in the interaction, but he kept coming back into the room where I was talking to the scottianwoman. lol ( you ever watch a bunch of puppies playing as a group? one is always trying to establish ranking*** that’s what this guy was doing. He walked in to the house, didn’t introduce himself by name, (because he was a member of her pack and therefore not alpha), but nevertheless was trying to see if he could establish dominant ranking on me (it would have enhanced his relationship with her, of course). I mean you could see the energy as he walked, pretended to be a part of the conversation, walk away and then come back in…. I did not allow myself to be distracted… it was fun to watch.

Anyway…. that was my Day-with-the Doctrine.

Tuesdays… your favorite Day of the Workweek?

Tuesday: as a Day of the Workweek is the best of all days because

I don’t think Tuesday is the best Day of the Workweek at all! …and I resent the implication that I do!

hey! wait a damn minute… we know this guy is a clark! and he’s expecting us to believe that he’s gonna do anything on a 2nd date other than ‘hope and hold the door for her’? come on! we may be new Readers but still!

what?! who said it was? wait a minute… is this a secret survey like on ‘the Facebook’

because, like that 2nd Date…. you can go for it all, without fear of being so emotionally invested that it would be, like, all unpleasant to bail if you strikeout

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* it was a meeting with transitioning tenants, I was there to make sure everything was being left as it should (by the parties leaving), not necessarily an adversarial interaction, but the potential was there, as I was representing the interests of the owner of the property and the people I was dealing with were representing their own…

** new Readers? not such an impressive deduction… a primary identifier of the scottian personality type is in the eyes, ‘the gaze’ to be more succinct (read more on the Page on scotts… suffice to say, ‘a scott is never not paying attention to what’s going on around them’)

*** another primary characteristic behavior of people who live in the world of the Predator… the drive to ranking, trying for dominance, but not attaching importance to being the alpha, as much as it is necessary to know where one stands… the pack social order

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TT0T -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 22, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Comprised of ten people, places, things (and) events that have inspired, generated, elicited and otherwise caused us to experience the state, (as ephemeral as it might be), of gratitude. As this is, by all accounts, personal and third-hand, a positive activity, we encourage all within sight (and sound) of our words to stop in, read, comment and all the other reasons you might have for spending time in the virtual world.

And, if the lists that you encounter here at the TToT resonate or otherwise cause you to think, “Ha! I’ve felt like that!” or “Man, them too??!” or, even, “Jeez Louise!! Those Doctrine people… wait, they’re the current host!?!?! No way. Heck, I could write to that level, just have to remember back to junior high!”

For those of us in the curator’s office at the Wakefield Doctrine, the following list of grats:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Unicorn Challenge:

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop:

6) the forecast of temperature today is partly-cloudy with a chance of above-freezing temperature

7) work (real estate) allowing us to see (and photograph some interesting properties) see Grat #8

8) technology… simple pocket camera (while not on par with, say, Kristi or Misky’s excellent use of photos in TToT) some of our other co-hostinae (Dyanne, Mimi, Denise, Lisa) might say, Hey! Where have a seen a sink like that before!! lol

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 15, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Here are ten people, places and things that inspire, incite and otherwise allow us the opportunity to feel gratitude.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) technology ’cause…internet? letters of transit to the virtual world (in our case, first stop: blogosphere.)

5) relentless slide towards full Not-Winter

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. ‘The Tree‘. Sally

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop. ‘Six bigguns!‘ Keith

8) the faithful practice of the principle underlying this bloghop. Will cite Mimi as demonstrating how the simplest approach to cultivating this practice is also the best way to enhance the efficaciousness of the whole thing. Being at the end, (rather than beginning of this post), will cite a cool, old zen saying in support of our contention of our co-host’s practice being a good example:

Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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Friday-maybe-Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 7, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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Below is the Doctrine’s contribution to ‘the Unicorn Challenge‘.

An image-prompt bloghop, hosted by jenne and ceayr it has but one rule: not a single phoneme more than two-hunnert-fity.

Whaddaya gonna do?

I’m gettin’ up soon in the mornin’I believe I’ll dust my broom.

The floor was a clean as any third-floor walk-up ever needs to be. The kitchen cabinets were empty and the shower curtain was down. The ache crescendoed for the millionth time. Small comfort that it’s jagged-edge had worn smooth, welcome relief to whatever nerves that ran from behind the eyes, down through the nose on its way to the body’s ‘normal breathing’ center.

<Hey! This is not really happening. This is a memory, a fiction, a bit of unprocessed emotion. Stop!>

The weather was inconsequential, the Season of year, a frivolous affection. The emptiness of the apartment was a kingdom that, like an adult fairy tale, refused to relinquish the hero from the Quest and, as with the worst of nightmares, denied the healing light of a new morning.

I’m gonna write a letter, telephone every town I know

As true friends, everyone who had my best interests at heart had long since left. There is no company in a man who refuses to accept a world that, denied one person, offers the only true healing.

<Sure, the ultimate solipsism. A lifetime writing the same life-script. No one would do that. Condemn themselves to such a life, right? Right?!>

I believe, I believe my time ain’t longI ain’t gonna leave my babyAnd break up my happy home