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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 12, 2026 By clarkscottroger 13 Comments

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

Special Edition TToT!

Well, yeah, now that you mention it, that does raise the spectre of an inescapable infinite regression, gratitudinously-speaking. oh well.

This is still the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Founded in 1823 by a charwoman’s daughter. As a young person, our creatrix found herself stifled by the incoherent dialect of the King’s English spoken in the local school where she grew up, in East Ham-on-Rye, in County Lingerie, England. And so, she began to write a list of the things that she was grateful for and the rest is history. (Well, technically, if this description is immersive enough, the rest would become the future.)

(whew! Caffeine! You are truly a loving and terrible god!)

All are welcome to contribute their own list of the people, places, things and event that incite a state of gratitude when first apprehended.

For the Wakefield Doctrine, we offer:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) Mimi for providing the idea: Show Us Your Bookcases! (as a Grat)

4) the Wakefield Doctrine

5) (Establishing shot) as mentioned in last week’s grat, our bookcases have left the living room and taken up residence in the laundry/utility room. So the first thing you see is:

6) Second Shelf right end

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

8) Ayiiee! (future dodged-bullet Grat!) Phyllis’ cottage has book shelves (and less hex wrenches, duct tape and round televisions) so we offer ‘The Bookcases of the Forest”

Cottage bookcases:

Second shelf right end:

9) Once upon something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 8, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

So…

Nope… not gonna take the easy(er) path of a RePrint post today. Though god knows there are few more Doctrine-instructional days of the week to incite a Doctrine post than Tuesday!

ok, lets keep it basic.

New Readers: (no better way to stay ‘on track’* to write a Wakefield Doctrine post than to address them/write to that ‘market’). Hey! This blog is about the Wakefield Doctrine. Which is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. We admittedly indulge in the harmless conceit of calling it a personality theory. Mostly because of the word ‘personality’. Which almost all of us are conditioned to think: ‘personality types!’ ha! (the exclamatory ‘ha’ is there just to set us up for one of the fun descriptions of generic personality types, of the kind formally found in magazines and now(ish) online.

The set-up is: “Oh honey! Come here! I’ve just read an article about personality types. It has you down to a ‘T’. You’re a (fill in the blank with random capital letters or maybe some animal species or, if of high academic ambitions, verbs turned into nouns, ‘Driver’ or whatever (don’t forget to capitalize!). In anyevent, our punchline is: “Now Mrs. Gullible has a brand new mirror-shaped club!”

ha ha

Have we mentioned that clarks tend not to tell jokes effectively? (Now, scotts! damn! that’s a whole post in and of itself. Warning!! Be careful what you ask for. Not entirely complimentary to our Predatory friends. At least for the most sensitive scotts. (yeah, we know! as if).

Back to our thesis: New Readers: if you visit consistently you will see a certain pattern here. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday are referred to a ‘Doctrine posts’. The Thursday post is a Six Sentence Story (a prompt based fiction bloghop). Saturday and Sunday, the TToT post.

that should do for today. (found my music vid in that last sentence, albeit a day late.)

*ok! congratulations New Reader!! You’ve demonstrated several qualities considered necessary to the full-enjoyment of the rhetorical, why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk adventure that is the Wakefield Doctrine! No, we know you don’t need that explained, but for the benefit of the roger or scott looking over your shoulder we’ll say this: “The more enduring and consistent quality characterizing those who find the Wakefield Doctrine fun/interesting/useful, are flexiblity of intelligence and a ravenous curiosity.”

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 31, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

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

While we try to remember the (suggested) topic for the week’s first post, lets rummage through the Box ‘o RePrints, shall we?

…wait! stop the keyboard! we have a little video from our own Golden Years of video/audio Doctrine/Curator!

the heck with adieus

ok, a little backstory: for a few years, at the end of the First Decade of the Second Millennium, we had cause to travel on business, once (or twice) a year. For reasons, lost in the Fog of Bore, we decided that, on each trip, rather than fly directly home, we would do some clarklike* tourism at places that held an attraction (for us). One such trip included a drive through Mississippi to see the Crossroads of Robert Johnson fame.

here:

* so, for a clark, tourism is about what, as kids, we used to call ‘touching hands’** Point of Interest, drive there, get out of car, take photos or videos, get back in car and leave.

** i.e. scary old house, ideally with keep out signs all over the place, the dare was ‘touch hands’ which was not ‘go on the property or get there it’ rather it involved touching it (running away was permitted and encouraged afterwards)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 24, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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

Friend of the Doctrine Mimi wrote:

Here’s a thankful, I ran into a rogerian expression “in the wild” so to speak. On the nextdoor app, a lady asked if local colleges have a dress code. She was saying if they don’t, they should, as these young people are beyond casual and let everything hang out, front and back. She said it “leaves nothing to the indignation!”

Damn! Significant? Well, here’s the link to the Page of rogers (as now amended). Now go to the next to the last entry in the list of ‘rogerian expressions’ then come back and tell the date on it.

We could, (and, full disclosure:sorely tempted to), wax rhapsodic on what this event demonstrates.

But the Doctrine is nothing if not helpful in self-improving oneself, so we’ll end today’s Brief post with:

If we still did Wakefield Doctrine hats (‘for your damn heads‘) and tee shirts that, by their being produced by a clark, demonstrate one of the qualities of my people: wear it out in public and you draw looks but any inquiry by strangers is markedly cautious*. lol

*will qualify that observation, there are clarks i.e. Mimi and our T-shirt model above (Cynthia) who are genuinely nice, friendly and not (necessarily) kinda intimidating. They would simply thank people for their solicitous complimentationing.

Wait!!! Reminder: Set your ducks and calendars and Muse intercession for this Thursday 27th of Augury and the Six Sentence Story Poetry Slam!!!

(We’ll: save you a seat, bring extra cigarettes have the coffee on… whatever fits your frame-of-reference.)

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Tesudae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 11, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Say you’re out and about today.

It’s summer, (here in Oceania), despite the store displays being torn down and replaced by Pumpkin-infused Halloween merchandise.

You’re out on errands or whatever GenMe calls: getting gas at the Seven-Eleven, stopping at work to pick up your check or driving by the beach to see if your ennui can be banished by the sight of non-old bodies in minimal clothing exhibiting hypo-organized behavior.

You’ve studied your Wakefield Doctrine.

You have a solid grasp of the characteristics of the three predominant worldviews*, at least on the level comparable to going on a trip to Spain during your last year in Spanish Club.

What is the purpose of the Wakefield Doctrine?

It is not:

finding something to do that on your trip that will, somehow, make it special… wait, it is kinda that
discovering a part of your life, (promise not to stop reading? … gain a new appreciation to a part of your life) damn! busted
laugh at the foibles of your fellow lifeforms and, at the peak ha-ha-moment, realize many of things you dislike about yourself aren’t so awful…shit! (maybe we shouldn’t’ve committed to this bullet point thing so hard**)
allowing the weight of ‘doing things correctly’ to lighten to a few-ounces-less-than-glum. boy-oh-boy better hope the word count is enough to quit this ‘What the Wakefield Doctrine is not’ schtick
the Answer…. finally!! a valid point. the study, use and embrace of the perspective afforded by the Wakefield Doctrine is not ‘the Answer’
the way to change the things in others close to you… shit, near the end and now we’re on a roll!! The famous saying/advisory to New Readers is: ‘the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them. (figure it out). It does, however, offer a chance to avoid one’s own triggers when interacting with others… these triggers being very much a part of maintaining the “I really like them except for when they…”