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2uesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 25, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

I must confess to a somewhat sordid and ego-centric motivation for my writing a post today, the second on as many days and quite out of the ordinary for this blog, at least as of late. That I never tire of writing about the benefits of the Wakefield Doctrine is not surprising, the way the mind has of turning things around in a manner at once misleading, (in the actual effects of certain behavior) and somehow obviously not what the original intention, is.

….whew!

At least my pendantric gland remains in robust good health! No, you’re right, I shouldn’t joke. This is serious.

…ok, I hear you. ( from the back of a classroom that, in my mind is as real as the plastic keys that shape the light into letters on my screen.) I hear “Hey! You’re writing about a personality theory that’s called, ‘the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers’!! Don’t worry about anyone taking this too seriously! And, since you’ve given voice to a character-in-a-visualization-of-an-idea, tell ’em what this ‘classroom’ looks like, why dont’cha.”)

Sure.

This classroom that’s providing me with a subtly engaging context for today’s discussion of the use of the Wakefield Doctrine? The desks have wrought-iron frames that are bolted to the floor, they aren’t simply uprights to support the desk and the seat. These frameworks have curves and almost classical lines, filigree in dark bronze. The desk itself is a slanted surface of wood (maybe maple… yeah, probably maple) that’s hinged along the top edge, where there continues a 3 inch level band of wood, with a groove running from left to right for pencils and a circular hole on the right side for the bottle of ink that you’ll never be given. Inside is simply space for your dotted-middle lined pad of paper, spare flash cards and a chipped-and-picked-at (for ammunition) brick of flesh-colored gum eraser. Oh, yeah and two Lindy pens well-tooth-indented.

The classroom is 5 rows across and seven deep. The nuns are nothing if they’re not orderly. In the very back of the room is what you love to hear referred to as ‘the wardrobes’… pretty much closets with folding doors and a double row of brass coat hooks. There are two doors to the corridor with windows at adult height and a single inward-tilting transom window. There is a pole in the back of the room to operate these windows. The blackboard is black and there are 4 black felt erasers (with a red and white label on the non-erasing surface) in a metal tray running along the lower edge. Across the wall, just above the blackboard are the letters of the alphabet, (capital and small) in script. Above the row of letters, in the dead center is a crucifix. The teacher’s desk is entirely wooden, and her chair does not have wheels. The floors are tile (greenish and black in a checkerboard pattern). There is a black and white clock on the inside wall, well above reach. All your friends are there…

hey, sorry! wordisthenics time is over for the morning. Will try to get back later in the day. Feel free to leave any (additional) classroom details in the Comments

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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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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘word on the street, the fix is in on this one’

October 20, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Warm up for the Six. The prompt word: ‘FIX’ (not the old-time cowboy movie star… no, not the granola running guy, the 1980s band…. wait a minute, let me check…nope, definitely not them. Cereal? the one for kids? nah. Last chance now, waking up on a morning in a future where you should be dead? …. yahtzee!)

zoe, a friend of this here Doctrine here, does this bloghop on Thursdays, called Six Sentence Story. It’s a challenge to us to a take a word and write… do I have to say it? thank you!

Fix

“I need my fix.”

Four words heard at an inner city traffic light, the post-industrial watering hole for those left behind, cast out or demon-dragged to the fringes of society, the spray-painted building behind him a blackboard of despair and crippled hope.

“C’mon pal, help a brother out.”

The driver of the European luxury car stared upwards through his windshield at the red-lit traffic light, suppressing his increasing impatience before the electromechanical roadway shrine, “Come on. Turn!” his simple prayer.

The man shambled towards the car, his own prayer less demanding, “Hey, buddy can ya spare a dime”, the pull of decayed memory combined with the push of desperate need lending him strength; one more debt he was unable to repay.

The driver suddenly angry at himself, glanced to the right and, through the passenger window recognized the aggressively subtle cut of an Armani suit, white-mottled vomit residue like alteration marks of a new tailor, ‘Carruthers, is that you?!”

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 6, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Late this week. No, really. It’s 9:15 pm Wednesday. I haven’t gotten my ‘word appetizer’ written down here yet! Best not delay. I can’t remember the last Thursday morning that I had to face a blank page.

Sorry! For the new(er) Readers, Thursday is Six Sentence Story day. Six Sentence Story is a bloghop that zoe hosts every week, in which she provides a ‘prompt word’ and invites all to write a story using, employing or otherwise involving the week’s word. Oh, and the story needs to be six, (no more and no less) sentences long. It’s fun and good practice.

So this week the word is ‘star’.

Star put her bare feet up on the dashboard of the very expensive car, (a Porsche 911 Carrera GTS, but she knew better say anything), as the yellow convertible flew down the Pacific Coast Highway at 90 mph. No longer concerned with her future, at least not any element of it more distant than, say 3 hours, the girl slouched sideways and let her long blonde hair wave to the beach bums, surfer dudes and other saltwater lowlifes staring at the car, now slowly cruising past the beach in Malibu. The sun was hot, the breeze was coy and the smell of the salt air, seaweed and body lotion was intoxicating. Star, having decided that closed eyes might enhance the variety of her options, felt the car come to a halt, the tiny crunching sound of car tires on a sea shell-paved parking lot announced her last chance to find a way to escape the driver of the car.

“End of the line, girl,” the driver’s accent, a confusing mix of Central European guttural aggressiveness and 18-22 year-old lazy charm, made her wonder what possessed her to stick her thumb, (and scantily dressed body) out on the highway entrance ramp only hours after freeing herself from the luxury condominium that held her for 2 nights and a day.

‘All things considered, this is still better than doing nothing,’ she thought, as the frothy roar of the surf tried and failed to mask the shouts of the approaching men.

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TTOT -the Wakefield Doctrine- Special Friday Edition

September 30, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. At least they aren’t this time.¹ This is that rarest of rarities, a Friday Wakefield Doctrine TToT post. There’s a reason (hell, I’m a clark, I always have a reason, even (especially) when I’m not correct.) At any rate, come join CS Lewis’ favorite grandniece Lizzi R here at the longest running, of the best of, the second bloghop that the Doctrine joined up with and celebrate the week past, by sharing your list of those things that sparked a feeling of gratitude² in the past week³.

Lets get to it.

1) That there is a Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

2) faux understanding, (though I will lay claim to a genuine sense of enjoyment and appreciation) of Latin phrases, to wit: ‘sine qua non‘ as this phrase (and many others that I’ve appropriated from the history and literature books, like the boy out to build his first fort in the woods, if it’s flat and not metal, then it will serve as siding and if it is metal but heavy, then it’s the perfect tool for hammering in nails, wood-screws, dowels and anything else that’s sticking out when it should be sticking in) as I struggle to express my thoughts in a way that will not be too confusing.

3) sine that fortunately is not non, is Item #1: everyone’s favorite secret personality theory. It is central to my activities now, (and for the last 6 to 33 years ), particularly in my efforts at writing, here in the ‘sphere. (In the interests of padding my list, I will cite some of the more significant elements of my life that exists solely because of the Doctrine.)

4) Hey, y’all heard about the writing group I signed up with, right? Yeah! Doctrine’s posse be gettin’ large…. (well, yes, I am practicing my rhetorical skills, surely they’ll be impressed with my….er eclecticism and such. I did mention that the RWRI is a group of talented and published(!) writers of that interesting genre ‘Romance’, didn’t I? At present, in proper clarklike fashion, I’m looking up titles on my kindle from the various group members and reading like crazy. This is a perfect illustration of the non-discriminatory and totally non-practical approach that a clark takes to learning about a specific topic, I have very little memory for names and almost zero ability to match names with faces, the result will be that I’ll know about the plot of number of books written by member of the RWRI, at least on a excerpt level⁴ (“Well, no clark, that was Anita’s work, but thank you nevertheless! And, since you ask, while there are many sub-genres, including Regency and Inspirational, even Paranormal. I don’t think that anyone has established a Romance sub-genre that focuses on self-born computer entities.” )

5) At any rate, the group has a thing they do as part of the monthly meeting called, ‘Silent Critique’ … and guess what? (yes, I do hear Cynthia and zoe in the distance going, ‘No. Way. !’ Yes way. Gots to blame and credit the Wakefield Doctrine for the …whatever that makes me raise my metaphoric hand (still in the back of the room, of course) and say, “I’ll do it.” So tomorrow I’ll be reading the 1st three pages of Chapter 1 of ‘Almira’. (wish me luck)

6) the photo at the top of the Post? Una is there, sitting in the window, I swear! Taken this morning as I walked back to the house after taking the garbage out (thats me in the cover photo), even knowing she was in the window there I could barely see her. But look closely for a couple of geometric shapes in the cent of the photo, those are her ears. Black on black with a reflection… easy to see!

7) Phyllis and her tree fort… like the old saying holds: “It’s not the things we do as much as how we feel about them that makes the matters.”

8) The funny thing about the Doctrine and all this writing and blogging and joining writers groups and sending out query letters to Literary Agencies, it’s all driven by my need to write the perfect Wakefield Doctrine post/book. My skills were marginal when I showed up in this place and Ive being paying the belated price of ignoring my English lessons in Grade School.

9) Featured Hostinae of the Week!! Kristi Campbell!! Kristi, (or as her friends call her, ‘Kristi’) is not only a natural for the blogosphere, but she has a way about her that inspires the non-confident and intimidates the aggressively over-confident. One of the original co-hostinae of this here bloghop here, I met her back in the first bloghop I had the nerve to participate in, Finish the Sentence Friday which she co-hosts to even this day. She can be found on the Facebook, of course, but you need to go over to her site, Finding Ninee . It’s a perfect example of what kind of good things can happen when talented people use the tools of this virtual world. Go there, stress that bandwidth.

10) SR 1.3 New Readers? check with our Curatoress of the BoSR/SBoR (and Mistress of the SGV), zoe she’ll totally give you the 411.

1) yeah, the worst thing about writing as a hobby is that the better you get, the more not-such-good-word-choices become apparent. fricken emails at work are taking me, like, 3 times as long to send!

2) or things of a hypo-gratitude character, as the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) allows

3) or anytime to forms on the screen, etch-a-sketch like as you type

4) New Readers? have you found that you’re not only comfortable, but convincing, when you discuss a topic that you didn’t realize that you knew anything about and that the meager, bare-bones facts of a Cliff Notes bookette, with the proper insightful extrapolation can be effectively convincing? well, hello clark!

the following is prompted entirely on the basis of how the weather looked today, nothing in the ‘real’ world otherwise to prompt it, such is the remarkable power of the song