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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger 15 Comments

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

The Weekend Landscaper’s Universal Sign of Distress (lol)

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is a list of the people, places, things and events (yeah, you might say that ‘events’ qualify as ‘things’ and thereby allow us to retain the original expression. But we didn’t. Seeing as you’re still reading, allow us to introduce you to the hostinae of this here bloghop here. Being far more … nor-mal and emotionally-developed (i.e. mature and capable of responding on a level of interpersonal sophistication higher than our), ‘Yeah? Well We’re rubber and you’re glue. Like that horse you rode in on.‘ err… our hostinae: Mimi, Dyanne, Denise, Misky, Lisa and Kristi. They will be better able to convey the intent of this ‘hop. Share the gratitude you experience and it is then multiplied in others.

ya know?

For the Doctrine:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (see Grat 8 below)

4) Closed on my upstate listing. No more Friday inspection trips. Alas, that means no more driving past the Port of Providence. Elimination of any further opportunities to paraphrase one Mr. Mix-a-Lot’s admission into our current favorite bon mots, i.e. ‘I like big boats’.

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

6) the Unicorn Challenge

7) work in the woods (as opposed to wood-working or working the wood) photo of first phase:

8) Hey, couldn’t manipulate the word ‘Wagon’ (photo in previous Grat), into any humorous form (the closest we got was the theme of ‘Wagon Train’ but no one reading this is old and alive enough to have direct memory thereof. So, instead we got Vince Gill and Albert Lee (see video below).

… Hey! Wait a darn minute! That vid!! For TToT gratitioneer, Cai, you know how we say the three personality types of the Doctrine can be observed manifesting differently in three people doing the same thing? The three featured guitar players in the video are Vince Gill, James Burton and Albert Lee. Guess what? roger, scott and clark (respectively)…

Simple, impromptu study guide:

the clark (Albert Lee) is easiest to identify: the guy with the unfashionably long hair and the bad posture … so clarklike;
the scott (ProTip: with scotts? the guy in the black shirt who gets introduced and plays the first solo, (the eyes of a scott, unmistakeable always alert)
finally that leaves the frontman (Vince Gill) as the roger. affable, easy going and confident)

See how much fun the Wakefield Doctrine can be?

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 31, 2025 By clarkscottroger 3 Comments

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

You know, in a sense, posting RePrints is kinda like using AI (Chat GPT or Skynet RUR) to avoid the pain and heart-break of word-wrasseling.

All we really need this early, Monday morning is a… jumpstart. Once the (creative) engine is fired-up, the battery will re-charge and we are all about the Entrance Ramp to Highway to…

ok…before we spin the wheel on the RePrint Machine…

so this weekend we were in a conversation revolving around (a) roger’s well-established difficulty with directions. We mean, of course, the geographical application, not the once-unfolded-never-same sheet (or sheets) of paper that is usually found at the far-end bottom of the box of: your Aurora model car kit, refrigerator door replacement gasket kit or your new window air conditioner.

No, we were discussing “How to get from Point A to Point B in the physical reality.

As to the former, rogers have the successful assembly of parts into a functioning thing, equivalent of ‘natural pitch’. They not only do not consider ‘Complete Written Instructions’ as ‘suggestions’ they view them as scripture of the most fundamental value.

The latter, welll We’re not so much a famous art person, but when it comes to travel directions rogers are more (we were going to get all Art 101 and cite Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nu descendant un escalier n° 2′ (transl. ‘Your girl friend the morning you forgot to tell her I was crashing on the couch‘).

In any event, we got into a discussion of how a roger might acquire the natural sense of direction exhibited in clarks. Which lead to a consideration of the Doctrine’s approach to self-improvement. Which, in simple, not-particularly-original terms, maintains that while we all have one (and only one) predominant worldview, we all retain the potential to relate ourselfs to the world around us as do ‘the other two’,

Seeing how we’re running short on time lets go with: Sure, you’re a roger. You have a secondary or tertiary clarklike aspect. There is nothing new for you to learn. All you have to do is accept your inner clark* and with it the natural ability to visiualize maps and globes and directions and such. Then you can keep track of yourself on the earth and know whether to turn left or turn your other left.

*New Readers: who just laughed, ‘Like there’s any other kind?’ Congratulations! You get to skip a grade.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘the gods look down in anger…’

March 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger 10 Comments

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This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge bloghop.

A word-count constrained imagination contest* hosted by jenne and ceayr, the prompt is an image and the only limit is ‘tell your story in under 250 words’.

The evening’s whispers, like mountain streams, manifested their true power in the endless variety of sound as they tumbled towards the sea. Never a single voice. Rarely even similar timbre or tone. Yet mountains fell and oceans filled.

“Fuck ’em,” a smile like a shadow growing on a series of X-ray prints found voice, “If that was in Latin, they’d listen.”

As is the nature of even the most high-borne soliloquies or alcohol-engendered bravado, the words were cast to an empty house, footlights of a hand-crafted stage obscuring all but the highest-proof perspective.

Lifting the broken glass, the man, his girth an ironic filigree to the delicate touch of tobacco-stained fingers, held it up to the light in search of shards that might disturb even his thirst.

“My kingdom for a whore!”

Chin thrust, shoulders hunched, the drunk dared the empty barroom to duel.

The barman held open the door, Charon waiting to complete the journey begun in the light of a challenging day at work. The pride he proclaimed in ‘showing those management morons’ now resignation to the 3:00 am kingdom of empty streets and hopeless dark.

Hearing the door close behind him, the man pressed the broken glass, scepter of a kingdom found and lost in eight hours, to a bloody grip oer his noble profile and stumbled into the endless pre-dawn night.

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Wodin’s Day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 26, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Found a RePrint post that made us think of two things:

New Readers: for the record this is not a clumsy effort to find our way through the new(ish) Land of ProNoun Choice. Hell, while we have not always committed to the editorial ‘we’ in narrative, we’re totally comfortable now, to the point of preferring it. In our defense, (yeah, like we need to be concerned… not to tempt the gods of good online fortune, but we have not, to date, been subject to negative readers or comments or such over the years of our tenure. chalk it up to the natural, self-limiting hubris of a clark),

… the two things? two people:

Cai who has been contributing to the TToT for the weeks of this new(ish) Year… in their lists has been mention of the A-Z Challenge. We did that! Once. And, as it happens below is a One of Twenty-Six (or four…can never keep that straight) from our participation
Friend of the Doctrine zoe… at the bottom (not showing in this RePrint) are the thumbnails of the twenty contributors to (that) weeks’ TToT zoe being one of them and then, we noticed she was a Hostinae at the time. And, we’re like, wth! gotta send her an invite to update her Host Emerita status to Hostinae. there ya go!

…before we get into pasting and such, a word about clarks and privacy.

damn! (insert clever/risque/relatable metaphor for embracing the concept quality of privacy to a level that Michelangelo would be all “You meant the wall outside the Chapel?!?! Aspetta un attimo, cavolo!!! …So the people walking by could enjoy my depiction of ‘The Creation of Adam’??!!). You know, like that.

P -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘Provocative‘

April 18, 2015

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provocative (prəˈvɒkətɪv)
adj
1. acting as a stimulus or incitement, esp to anger or sexual desire; provoking: a provocative look; a provocative remark.*

“…finally a word we can sink our teeth into!!!” (said nearly every scott, at one time or another). Find me another word that does more to generate images of lipstick and slinky dresses**, not that that’s what today’s Post is going to be about …much.

In the words of a clark, ‘yeah, no! but….‘ in the early days of this blog, we saw any number of occasions when, searching in earnest for an illustrative metaphor for one of the worldviews, or a fictional encounter between members of the three worldviews, meant to demonstrate how our worlds are experienced differently, we’ve been met with the response. ‘what?!! did you just say that scotts are predators??’ (yes)…. “I’m not sure that a photo of a cow is really such a nice way to begin a discussion of rogers, don’t your think you’re being a little offensive?” (no).

I’ll say this for certain, the behavioral metaphors that are associated with the three worldviews, are exaggerated and yet ring true, they are over-the-top examples of ways that people perceive the world and yet, when used as a predictor of future behavior, are uncannily accurate. And it’s fun. That’s the other thing that I can say for certain, all that is written in the Posts*** that collectively are the Wakefield Doctrine blog, is written with a sense of affection for each of the three personality types. And this should be anything but surprising, seeing how we all have the potential, the capacity, to experience the world as any of the three personality types do.

Of course, the way ‘provocative’ is manifested in each of the three worldviews is as different as…well, as the three worldviews. scotts come to mind first, as the definition that we used above, anger or sexual desire. rogers, not so much. clarks, oddly (lol, well, duh!) enough, clarks can be very provocative people, in a secret, roundabout way, of course.

Since I have a TToT Post to add to this, lets run out some favorite statements that help us appreciate today’s Word.

rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless

scotts are stupid, rogers are dumb and clarks are crazy

scotts get angry, clarks get mad and rogers get resentful

(stop me anytime, remember: ‘acting as a stimulus or incitement’!)

* courtesy of free dictionary.com

** at least for those of us blessed to live in the happy and peaceful land of Y Chromia! I assume the womenfolk, (to use the proper technical psycho-socio-cultural term for members of Gender X….), will find their mental drive-in movie playing a similar but different film (you ‘not-old people’, you have heard of drive-in theaters? please say ‘yes’)

*** those Posts that I wrote, which are not all the Posts in this blog.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

March 25, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

If there is one thing the Wakefield Doctrine can suggest that will, without fail, improve your day today is this: the value of acquiring an additional perspective on the world around us (and the people who make it up). Even if the benefit is limited to permitting us to further appreciate what it is we are and have in the world today. Mind you, this is no more a simplistic, knee-jerk command to be grateful for what is, than additional color is to a black line and white background painting. An additional perspective is always additive to reality. Not necessarily comfortable or obvious. But additive.

As with most things in reality, the element that determines the quality of our experience lies beyond our direct knowledge. While Kierkegaard may well have maintained that one who be prepared to take a chance on the unknown, the Doctrine suggests that all movement forward demands imbalance, movement is, in essence, a series of fallings. This forward motion by disequilibrium is possible only by accepting where we are at the moment and allowing the next (fall) to follow.

That is where the potential benefit of learning and applying the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to our daily lifes manifest. As we say:

“…how we relate ourselves to the world around us”

and this, in service of the ambition to ‘increase our capacity to see the world as the other person is experiencing it’ is the whole point.

Additional perspectives are, by definition, limitless. The Wakefield Doctrine is kinda the starter pack, suitable for all Stages and Ages (of Life): Now until Later.

…ok

Damn!

May we say, to anyone still reading, “Hey, thanks!”

It’s not so much a ‘validation of whatever drives any of us to type-etty-type words to be stuffed into blog-shaped bottles and tossed out into an impersonal sea’ as our appreciation is in response to the privilege of allowing ourselfs to identify with another person. Sure, we get it in our heads to hang out with scotts or associate with rogers, how hard are they to find?

clarks on the other hand are, by nature, difficult to spot in the wild (well, as wild as clarks allow themselves to be).

but to you, the Reader, thanks and…

…booyah!