Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 3, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

Good morning, this most-clarklike day of the workweek.

…ya know,

If Tuesday were a meal, it’d totally be a BLT (on a Sunday evening)

If Tuesday were cereal, it’d surely be (tie here): Puffed Rice (that remains buoyant with a light-sprinkling of sugar) or Rice Crispys (with an endless supply of banana slices hiding in the sugar layer at the bottom of the bowl).

If Tuesday were a job, it would one where your friends also work, but in different departments; your manager is away at meetings all the time, (except Friday afternoons and… Tuesday, late mornings) and even though you have a desk, your work requires your to be elsewhere (performing your duties) pretty much anytime you feel bored or in need of change.

If Tuesday were a girlfriend/boyfriend they’ve recently transferred in from somewhere else, they like your friends (i.e. love your scottian friend, have sllight reservations about your rogerian friend and are fascinated by your clarklike friend)… and own a boat.

If Tuesday were a lifetime, when it begins to get dull and predicable it surprises you with something that was already there (in your life) but somehow overlooked, includes friends from all three predominant worldviews and never stops being interesting.

You know, like that

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

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

a little RePrint post perhaps?*

Wait! stop the presses! Lets consider our asteroid**

*sure, it’s the first cup of coffee in the morning in the Land of Words, i.e. not critical to physical health but to one’s quasi-mental health? kinda for reals. Funny, this writing thing. It’s not for lack of ideas, there’s always ideas for writing about. It’s more about self-imposed standards of quality, sanity and propriety. fortunately for us we rarely are bound by standards of quality lol

In the interest of authorly integrity permit us these bullet points:

clarks (Outsiders) the person you know who is funny in a way most people don’t get and you really wish they wouldn’t be so hard on themselves and maybe insist on being treated with a little more respect which is weird ’cause you see more (to them) than most the people in your circle
scotts (Predators) the friend you have that makes you glad to be whichever of ‘the other two’ worldviews you are, while at the same time, you envy them their seeming lack of concern for consequences, outcomes and/or repercussions to they things they do that delight, amuse and otherwise inspire a secret prayer that they survive another birthday/holiday/mid-term break
rogers (Herd Members) the friend that, when you’re in the mood and take the time to think about, quotation marks were invented for… friendly to a faulty, judgmental in a charming way, they mostly make you feel good about yourself, until they don’t. you’re not surprised that by the tenets of this ‘personality theory’ they make up the majority.. big time

ok!

the time-travel song below? well, if you’re writing fiction set in the mid-20th… you’re welcome

** god’s honest truth, we heard someone, a scott we’re pretty sure use the word ‘asteroid’ instead of asterix needless to say, we let it slide… what we didn’t count on was remembering this… thirty years after the fact!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 31, 2026 By clarkscottroger 7 Comments

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. Each week we invite bloggers and Readers to join us in a reflection on the state of gratitude (as manifested in the human mind(ish)). The theme…well, we kinda just stated the theme of this ‘hop. The format…err ‘Ten‘ Things of Thankful? (to quote from one of our favorite shows, ‘The Good Place‘… “come on, people! You can get this from context.“) But, as with most things on the internet, there are few hard and fast rules. You have more than ten things? type away! Less? Now having less than ten things is an opportunity!

What do we mean? We mean that one can reference Grat #10 in this (and every Doctrine TToT) post and leverage Secret Rule 1.3 of the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) to ‘stay legal’. On this, we wanna do a shout-out to our newest Host, Andrew. If’n you read all of his TToTs you will detect a certain… what we call aggressive curiosity and fairly decent ability to extrapolate. Which is a quality shared by all Hosts and Hostinae.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) ~~work: always varied, often frustrating, never boring~~ spontaneous vid prompted by our disdain for ‘TED Talks’

6) Mia maintaining the viability of the perspective that ‘all reality is, to a small but significant degree, personal’

7) something, something

8) technology: besides enabling videos (on our damn telephones!) also preserves photos like the one in used in this post’s thumbnail

9) speaking of ‘the Sophomore’, the time travel quality of music, the emotional-connection to periods in our lifes that songs can evince…damn! (ed. grad school for today’s first vid)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 17, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Created in a third floor walk-up in the White Chapel district in East London 145 years ago during the Great Blizzard of 1881. Lizzi R. drew scant attention to the founding of this gratitude bloghop initially, in part due, in part, to a certain Mr. Leather Apron. But that story is for the Autumn and encroaching darkness.

This is a list of the people. places, things and events that have elicited and otherwise incited a psycho-emotional state commonly referred to as gratitude.

1) Phyllis

a chodsky pes during a lay-over in Frankfurt, Germany (Una flying to her home-to-be with us)

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) crossing our fingers, (anticipatory grat…always a risk lol)

6) moderation in temperatures… frozen waters? gone for now

7) increasing daylight hours (go a long way towards denaturing the grip of Winter ya know?)

8) something, something

9) shout out to Host, Andrew for letting me know that, for reasons not yet ascertained, he has been unable to leave a comment here at the Doctrine.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

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Twewsdae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 13, 2026 By clarkscottroger

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

Before we continue our discussion of scotts that began in yesterday’s post, a word about the more subtle appreciation of the principles (and personalities) of the Wakefield Doctrine.

Before we continue from Misky‘s Comment, consider the following, (cue Al Pacino, ‘This is our gift to you’), description of a clark (from our WIP ‘Blog Dominion’):

‘Tom was one of those people who managed to maintain a crippling dependency on the approval of others without, somehow, surrendering any autonomy.’

cool right?

And now to our scottian friends

A right busy little (~~Scott~~ scottian*) bee, eh? I like the image of the leaping dog…

Very much on-target. We always had/have fun with the metaphorical social paradigm of the dog, (especially a puppy) for the carefree, live-in-the-now relationship that defines the predominant worldview of the Predator (scott).

But you’re all AP Readers in this the mid second decade of the 21st Century right?

Hey! You hypo-youthful Readers!

Remember the rare treat of a film in stead of a regular class? What was not to like? The projector clickety-clacking and… and! the lights out In a classroom. (You could see the corridor all lit up, but inside, as dark as a movie theatre.)

Today, Readers we have a film (video). It shows a scott (with a couple of rogers). This is not a test. Just rely on your instincts. (ok, one hint: the two guys in brown not doing so much? Disregard them. Also, doesn’t matter what anyone is saying. This is a visual thing.)

Have fun.