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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- let the fun begin

April 14, 2016 By

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Early, (for me), to start warming up, but, what the heck! right?

Holy smokes!  Not only did I not warm up yesterday, (afternoon, night…other than take a near-meaningless photo of my new phone and write one line), but the prompt word was not there when I went looking last night! Admittedly, I was tired and, despite my resolve to get some more words down for Chapter 3 in ‘Almira‘, I fell down in the-room-with-specially-soften-floors and slept horribly most of the night!

…anyway, now it’s Thursday morning, the prompt is ‘Last’ and, as zoe demands each and every Thursday, here is my Six Sentence Story:

Last

Heidi found her husband, Claus, sitting, his face slumped in the vee of his elbow-propped hands, at the end of the long, narrow plank bench that ran in parallel rows on either side of the wooden tables,

“Why, my husband do you wear such a sad face, Oktoberfest is for the beer-laughing, wench-pinching men of the Village to celebrate and shout and drink and eat, what is it that bothers you so?”

Claus’s usually cheerful face turned to look up at his wife’s, like an avalanche in reverse, his bushy white eyebrows raised, blue eyes regarded her with fierce affection,

“I know, I know, each year, out there among the young people I am, telling the young men to walk, so that they might get them all and, when they get too boisterous, there I stand between them and the shyer girls, at their first Oktoberfest all alone in small groups of friends.”

“But this year, I had to insist on claiming the title of ‘Münchner Kindl’ and start the festivities and even, my ego it so large, arrange the menu, course by course!!”

“And that you’ve done so well,” Heidi turned, pulling her husband in close to her, the two-now-one, facing the tent full of townspeople gathered at the tables and outside on the lawns beyond, “look, Claus, they eat and they drink and laugh and carouse.”

“That is so, and each plate of food and every stein of beer has its proper place, like a wedding procession, the bride would not be first to enter the Church, as with the heavenly choir of angels, there is a proper order to things.”

Waving his hand towards the townspeople, who, standing and sitting, laughing and whispering and, all held plates of sweetly-iced strudel, “I distinctly said, the last shall be Wurst!”

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April 9, 2016 By

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1) I appreciate the wisdom, (amply illustrate in these pages, by ‘Our Miss Lewis‘ and the co-hostinae), that gratitude is a state of mind and, as such, is something I am allowed to accept the responsibility for finding or ignoring. And so, my semi-humorous subtitle,  “100,382 Spam comments blocked by Kismet.”  which is a true and real thing in my blog dashboard.  (“We’re Number!! We’re Number 1!!”)

2) ok, I think I’ve got that out of my system. Big shoutout to my co-hostinae (and others) who are participating in the annual ‘Anaconda and Zeppelin Blog Challenge’!! Dyanne and Val and Kristi and a number of others are crushing that there alphabet.  ( “Topic with Letter G in it??! See you in hell! plosive G!!”)

3) thankful this workweek is over?  Well, I would certainly say so!

4) I’m cautiously and quietly grateful for my growing my self-confidence in writing these things (TToTs and Sixes and such) in whatever manner randomly walks into my head and takes over my typing hands… did you read that last Item?!?  Number 4?!?!  jeez… Higgins, did ‘ja forget something at hyper-gentility class this morning?? lol  hell, I not only brought it on myself, I’ve been totally encouraging ‘what-the-hell-try-it!’ self ever since I pulled into Blogville, what, 5 years ago?

5) Back to Item 3 (SR 32.4 ch. 7.3: if a relatively high-risk Item is put forth, it is permissible to return to self-same Item, provided (said return) is for the exclusive intent to elaborate or explicate the [P]reviously Cited Item (op. cit. ‘go back to the Well’ Gambit)  Tough work week. High Stress. I will, in fact, cite the (implied) and actual lessons that inform this bloghop, i.e. that the cultivate of the gratitude reflex has the very practical value of reinforcing the attitude that precedes the approaching crisis. Can’t go into much more detail, but, after the crisis passes, (and ‘game over! alright!’), to remind myself the how the situation resolved itself, despite misgivings, is a good thing.

6) Una and Phyllis, of course.  (To the humanophiles out there, who might be all, ‘hey! how come you always mention the Canine first? Huh, whats up with that?!  Well, that’s just the way we both think of the family unit, here at Casa de Una)

7) ‘Almira’  Chapter 1 is out (link here) The coolest thing about a new Serial is that, by definition, it’s only just starting, so you don’t have, like, 13 Chapters to read before you can get whats going on. Chapter 2 will be out this Sunday, and we’ll be learning a bit more about young Dorothy Gale. I, for one*, did not realize that, that after finishing High School the year after ‘the Storm of ’37’, she got early acceptance to Sarah Lawrence College! When we join Miss Gale, in Chapter 2, she’s back home in Circe, Kansas on summer vacation following her Freshman year. And, as all of us who have children returning from College after Freshman Year (or have been returning Freshman) know quite well, ‘Home is never quite what some inner, secret part of us want to remember it to be’. So, Dorothy has some adjustments to make. (Spoiler Alert!!! Only Hunk, (aka the Scarecrow), is still working on the Gale Farm. Hickory and Zeke have, in the intervening year, both moved on.)  Find the ‘Follow’ button on the blog, you can get each new Chapter sent right to your metaphorical doorstep every Monday morning!

8) The Graviteers ( christine, val, joy and lisa and sarah and kristi ) at the Gravity Challenge. If you haven’t been following the Challenge, one of the cool things is, that, by virtue of being a group, what we face as individuals, at any given time varies…. one, (or more of us), might be in backslide mode, but others could be meeting with outstanding success and progress. The group shares the bad with the good and benefits together.

9) music… of late, these past few weekends, I’ve been posting  music videos as an Item. (Having Friend of the Doctrine Kerry on her own music adventure doesn’t hurt, influentialistically-speaking), I’m so grateful for the vast and easy availability of music and such (new Readers!! see that?? that’s how it’s done….)  here is a link to one of my all time favorite gospel guys, Fred Hammond.  (the coolest thing? Fred’s singing about the Old Testament and the horn section are like going, like, total R&B, up in the back row (watch: 0:26)    

10) SR: 1.3  ( hey… Abbie  yo that is how the Secret Book of Rules (aka the Book of Secret Rules) gets used to make our collectively-imaginary lives a little simpler and easier.)

* this Serial story is being written, pretty much in the same manner as I wrote ‘Blogdominion’ which is to say, Chapter by Chapter. And, for you new Readers, I don’t mean to limit the implications of that description to the normal, ‘well, of course, Chapter 3 follows Chapter 2 and precedes Chapter 4!’  no, I mean, the story unfolds for me, as for you the Reader… Chapter to Chapter. Not only is Chapter 3 not yet typed out, as of this moment, I don’t have the slightest idea of what’s going to happen in Chapter 3. I’m sure it’s a common enough phenomenon in the writing biz (to which I’ve somehow managed to sneak in through a poorly secured fire door, back by the loading docks) that stories exist (‘out there’ wherever) and my only job is to discover it and write it down. I’m totally in whatever camp it is that maintains, ‘come to know the characters well enough and they’ll tell you the whole story.’

 

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‘A Story in Six Sentences’ -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the rest of life should be as simple at that…’

April 7, 2016 By

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You know someone’s having a stressful day, when the prospect of creating one of zoe’s weekly Six Sentence Story(s) is anticipated as an improvement on the day. (lol… no! I don’t hate Six Sentence Stories! I loves the Six Sentence Stories, I just find them remarkably challenging. Fortunately for me, I find them very rewarding, easily worth the effort, pretty much every time I’ve put electrons to phosphorus*, but that’s not important now.) Now is the time of the week that I create the Thursday Post. in preparation for Six Sentence time. I’ll ramble on, (as I have been), go find the prompt word and maybe type it in, but will not be writing the actual Six until tomorrow morning, (this being written at 5 or so, Wednesday afternoon.)

Wait, I’ll go get the prompt…hold on….

(…damn! it’s not ‘LCD’) the prompt is ‘Favor’   (there goes, “...as Capt Steve Strongstar fought for control of the careening spaceship while still in the passionate embrace of Stella Fulsome….“)

‘Audaces fortuna iuvat‘ (Fortune favors the Bold)

“Give it here!” his newly discovered baritone voice almost sounded convincing, the slightest hint of childhood on the penultimate syllable, however, undid all the voice of command he’d hoped to convey.

“Make me,” her contralto, unintentionally mocking his efforts to assert dominance, both being too newly conscripted in opposing armies of the oldest of all battles, neither noticed the secondary/effect rise from their struggle.

Even as inexperienced as she was, she sensed that some conflicts are meant to be lost, the battle not being synonymous with the war, and looked for a second strategy. Even as inexperienced as he was, he sensed that conflict was inevitable and losing can never be preferable to victory.

“Please?”

“Well, since you’re being reasonable, ok!”

‘Ipsa quidem pretium virtue sibi‘ (Virtue is it’s own reward)

*yeah, old person reference, totally not accurate or even appropriate to today’s modern computers and their flat panel displays… damn! I’m really hoping that the prompt word this week is LCD or maybe archaic, I’ll settle for,  ‘here’s some milk and graham crackers, ‘How It’s Made’ will be on in a minute.

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March 31, 2016 By

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Look at how light it is! (The photo above was taken at 6:18 pm 03/30/16), how nice is this DST? Warming up for my Six, not to give anything away, but I’m thinking a play on words might be fun! I mean, I enjoy my Sixes but I also admire the straightforward stories (sometimes fun, other times humorous) that the others write. Although naturally inclined to go the Stream of Consciousness route (I have no idea why), a direct narrative story, one that is also engaging, now that’s a worthy goal. (Author’s Note: having just completed the story let me say, ‘yeah, right!’)

Anyway,  we’ll just have to see what shows up, ya know? zoe does this bloghop, this Six Sentence Story, each Thursday and the object is to take the prompt word, this week it’s ‘floor’, and write a story involving the word of the week and using exactly Six Sentences to do so.

 

The world before him slowly reformed, one sense at a time, his mind re-assumed its responsibility for informing him of his current state of what-the-hell-is-going-on. Vision started the process, but clearly was not up to the task, a field of brown to his left and ‘non-brown’, brightening into too-bright, on his right. (For reasons he sensed he would not have the luxury of exploring), taste and smell joined in their part of forming his world, mostly in the smell of dog, (which triggered an inexplicable bloom of hope and simple happiness), and the taste of wool and dust, (mittens, warmth and sweaty enclosures), both linked, yet neither dependent on the present moment. Hearing returned, like the tumbling of stones under a receding ocean’s wave, a sound that conveyed a sense of huge, (despite it’s fading), seemed to contain the promise of a return that inspired childlike awe, made more bearable by the sounds of distant morning birds, like the first raindrops on the windshield of a speeding car. Touch returned last, always the most comprehensive of his senses, (its countless descriptions formed his presence in and of the world), providing only the disquieting intelligence that he was not standing and the world was receding, like the stages of a light brightening from ‘just barely visible’ to ‘all the light in the world’, the quality of ‘approaching’ or ‘receding’ was losing it’s importance.

He sensed change and felt an ember of not-fear growing somewhere in the middle of where he was.

(Floor)

 

 

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Phase 78.2 .4 -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 28, 2016 By

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I had a really good Post written, unfortunately it was (written) in my head only and it was 4:03 am when I read it. I add that second part to let you know how I can claim to know it was a really good post. I’ll try to re-write it here, now.

Most everyone reading this will be familiar with the underlying tenets of the Wakefield Doctrine. Perhaps the most basic and fundamental of these is that we, all of us, live in a reality that is, to certain extent, personal. From this we derive the difference between the Doctrine and the ‘real’ personality typing system, i.e. for us, personality type is a reflection of the reality that we grew up and developed our interpersonal skills in, as opposed to being innate, inherent, instilled or insufferable qualities that came pre-packaged at birth, like a sim card that lets you do certain things but, if you want to do other things, maybe even like other brand phones, then, sure you can, but you have to like, re-program it and that’s not exactly printed on the box the damn phone came in, of course, you could buy an upgrade, but who has the money for that, and you end up, like most of us, hoping that your friends learn something that you can, like, half copy and half learn and then you can improve the phone’s operability and hopefully not fuck it up so much that it doesn’t work.

Did I mention that this Post was originally written at 4:03 am? Well, you know how that time of day can be. In any event, all of you out there are reading this from a personal reality (we call it pre-dominant worldview, or simply worldview), that gave rise to social strategies and ways-of-interacting-with-the-world that we refer to as:

  • clarks (Outsider) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and wonder how we’re possibly going to get by in the world ‘out there’ today, the distinction (of being apart from the world and everything that goes with it, including, god! especially including the people), tells you everything you need to know to be able to identify the clarks in your world.
  • scotts (Predator) those of us who look around at 4:03 in the morning and know where they are and what needs to be done in order to move forward without being restrained or restricted, the value of freedom cannot be assigned because it is without limits and, this lack of limits has as much to do with the others in the scotts‘ life as it does with their own enjoyment of life… act and live, protect and preserve the pack and …did we say, live and act (because life is short) yet?
  • rogers (the Herd Member) ever wonder who buys alarm clocks that have snooze features?  yeah. because for our rogerian brethren, even not getting up on time really should be planned out, at very least assigned a quantity (“Hit Snooze and Get 10 Minutes of Sleep!”) who on earth can do that and not lie awake wondering if 10 minutes is almost up or, maybe there’s a mistake in the programming and now it’s like, and hour too late?  sorry, rhetorical question. In any event, virtually all of the technology that makes our modern lives so comfortable (and scary) are courtsey of our rogerian friends

That’s the deal with the three personality types. The self-development thing? Well that’s simple enough, my goal is to develop my rogerian and scottian aspects (in balance) with my pre-dominant clarklike worldview. (New Readers: the Doctrine maintains that we’re all born with the potential to live and develop in all three worldviews, we always end up in only one, but never lose the capacity for ‘the other two’). The underlying reason is that purpose of this here, personality here, is intended to help us to appreciate how the other people in our lives ‘relate themselves to the world around them’. Using the Doctrine makes this goal much more attainable, and totally lets us know more about the other person than we have any right to know.

 

Hey what the hell, is today that Monday?!!  zoe’s other blog… the carrot?? Heart and Mind Monday?  ok, lets re-arrange the content here and …

I’m happy and pleased to announce that I’ve completed writing the serial story, ‘Blogdominion’! No! seriously, the story is written down (in places other than inside my head) and it has a beginning, a middle and an End. That alone is, for me, a significant accomplishment. I’ll surely be writing more about it in coming days. But I finished writing it and I thank Val and zoe and glenn for being such Constant Readers and providing much appreciated feedback and, I thank Phyllis for doing a nearly-final-does-this-chapter-really-work reading each and every Sunday for that last…. well, the last 23 Sundays plus epilogue.  And I appreciate Denise’s tireless efforts in the edit and re-write and final read-outloud process. sine qua non, binyon.

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