TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 30, 2025 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. Each week we invite all in sight of our words to join us on this exercise in cultivating (the state of) gratitude. The rules are simple: write a post that includes a ‘list’ of ten~ items consisting of the people, places and things that have inspired, suggested, incited and otherwise gave you an elbow-in-the-ribs to notice that they (the people, places and things) of your life weren’t nearly as bad, dangerous, sad or evocative of the safety of bed full of quilts and comforters, as the nasty/negative voice in many of our minds sometimes hear. ya know?

But we digress. The ranks of Hostinae (we thought about a capital ‘R’ for the word ranks but thought it might be a bit much. (Like that ever happens here at the Doctrine! lol). And…and!! While the linkz boilerplate at the bottom is out of date, allow us the Pleasure of introducing the two newest hostinae, Cai and Knitcat.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story this week’s selection (go read, comment and, as always, tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.)

5) Wish I could still write as funny… A line from our WIP ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf an Ian Devereaux mystery:“ kinda cracked me up:

“Is there room in there for me?” Leanne’s morning contralto cut through the rain-hiss of the shower heads like Joe Cocker at an elementary school Christmas pageant.

6) Reached the river/stream (photo at top of Post) with the clearing project that was made possible by the bridge completion project (see last week’s TToT)

7) mowed the front meadow

8) something, something

9) showed a house today, 21st C style with a video link to Buyers on vacay in Iceland. fun

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music vids

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 25, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey!

Being Monday morning, we’re kinda ‘casting about’ for a topic. Not in the mood for a RePrint. What say we grab some lesser read parts of this here blog here and paste it here.

Sold!

the Eureka Moment. In the About Page it’s one of our favorite page

Hello

As the ‘About’ page of most blogs is, for the New Reader/Accidental Visitor, the second-most read (and the shortest-time spent) location, allow us to go the beginning of the story. (Despite this edit taking something like ten years to appear, this approach really seems to make sense. Ah well, for some of us, insight might seem instant, the capability to effectively tell the story, perhaps a little more drawn out.

Following is the ‘eureka moment‘ for the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers (the Wakefield Doctrine):

In the early 1980’s, Scott (the progenitor scott) worked at a music store in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He was the only full-time salesman and (also) ran the store’s repair department. In addition to musical instruments, the store provided repair services for a wide range of electronic equipment, including tape recorders and other audio equipment.

One day I happened to stop by the store to visit. While there, a young man walked into the store, went directly to the ‘repair department’ where Scott and I were talking and without preamble placed a ‘dual cassette recorder’ on the counter. A dual cassette recorder was designed to allow one cassette to be copied directly to another, what today we would call, making a back up. The controls on this ‘dubbing recorder’ consisted of two sets of tape recorder controls: Volume, Treble and Bass. Where it differed from a single recorder was that it also had a Master Volume control. As the name implies it controlled the volume level, for both recording and playback. The tape recorder the customer placed on the counter appeared to be new and showed no signs of damage or abuse. I stepped back, Scott looked up and said, ‘What can we do for you’? The customer said, “This thing is brand new, it worked for a couple of days, then it stopped working entirely. I can’t figure out what’s wrong”.

Scott looked at the device for a second, then, without a word, reached under the counter, brought out a roll of black electrical tape, and, tearing off a 2 inch piece, taped over the Master Volume control (after returning the dial to it’s highest setting). He then slid the device back over the counter and said, “There, it’s all right now.”

The customer asked to plug in the recorder. Taking a cassette from his pocket he put in the machine and ran it through its paces. Satisfied that his ‘broken tape recorder’ now worked like new, he thanked Scott and walked out of the store, a totally satisfied customer.

My reality shifted. For reasons unclear to this day, although I observed what scott saw as to the nature of the problem with the dual cassette recorder, I realized that the character of his solution implied a reality, a ‘context’ that was clearly different from mine. At that moment I came to believe the personal reality that I experience as I went about my life was not necessarily the exact reality of anyone else. That the manner in which Scott perceived the ‘problem’ was fundamentally different from the way I witnessed it.

From that moment, standing in a small music store in Pawtucket, I’ve been observing the behavior of others knowing with the conviction that what I could see was not necessarily what they are experiencing. That, in fact, all reality is personal to a small, but significant degree, personal.

This blog is all about: ‘Can I find a way to better see the world as the other person is experiencing it?. And, (through this effort), ‘Can I improve and enhance how I relate myself to the world around me and the people who make it up?‘

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (already in progress…feel free to wander around)

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Too(s)day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia has a new video. You should go to her site. It’s called Art Funky.

We will take the liberty, in case you have been living in a cave, of sharing her youtoob video at the bottom of this here post here.

Cynthia is one of those rare people who, while being intelligent (and god knows that’s no great feat!) has a humility that, in one of Life’s major ironic twists, imbues her work with exceptional power. very cool.

(the photo at the top of the post? lol that is a clark’s version of the ‘photo with a celebrity. Our guest in today’s post is in the middle.)

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Whyday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 15, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

yes, this is the first in the Wakefield Doctrine fashion line

Thanks to Mimi for suggesting a topic:

It would still be interesting to start trying to figure out how early a predominant world view shows up in a child.

Shall we begin?

Consider this: Which is stronger: a novelty or a habit? More comfortable: brand-new shoes or worn (but not worn-out) shoes? Lyrics: song loved for 20 years started in dead-center of you first love affair or “Hey! catchy tune!”

There you have it.

The missing element making Mimi’s query so useful and valid. Understand this element and the rest becomes obvious.

Pick up your pencils…. now!

ok lol

That was kinda cruel*.

btw… not that we indulge in fictional new memories here, but in our Curator’s visual cortex, we’re seeing: a fifth grade class where the clark(s), hearing the above directive about pencils, are smiling and writing…. rogers and scotts? not so much.

not being a roger or a scott, we’ll give ‘the class/the non-clarklike Readers a hint:

the whole predominant worldview thing in the Doctrine is simply shorthand for the relationship the person (no matter how young or old) maintains with the world around them. (Note: for reasons still not understood, the given relationship is established at a very early age and is not a conscious choice on the part of the individual. So, forget about the, how I decided being a scott wasn’t fun enough so I switched to… Doesn’t work that way. If that doesn’t work for you, we’re sure there’s an empty seat over at the Oscar, Myers Briggs exhibit… they got it all down to a science… the Wakefield Doctrine maintains that effectively we find outself living the the world of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member and our outward indicators, our personality traits in the eyes of the obersever are appropriet responses to the world as we experience it….

sure, roger… one more Hint: Four Year Old: play your favorite song!!…. 18 yo? 45?

* pop quiz: match the manifestation of punishing aggression to the predominant worldview: [cruel/heartless/mean] :: [clark/scott/roger]

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 2, 2025 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 bloghop.

August is Open Recruitment for Hosts and Hostinae here at the Ten Things of Thankful ‘hop. If you think you might enjoy (or otherwise benefit from) being a host each week, let us know.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) completion of tree project

5) return of the driveway corn^{see Grat 9 for original driveway corn from 2-18} We suspect that Mother Nature (in her endearingly absent-minded way) had the seeds of the plants from 2018 get stuck in the ground for a few years and then eventually get washed down the driveway to come to rest where we are witnessing the miracle of life (as in ‘it’s a miracle we didn’t starve waiting for Mz Nature to provide for us’)

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) modern techology… ’cause, imagine if we had to draw the various photos that grace our TToT post!?!?! [ed, ayiiee ! Q. what’s worse than a blogger without artistic ability trying to draw? A a blogger who, despite being quite aware of their limitation but for god knows what reason has such un-earned confidence in their online persona that they’ll post it anyway! (lol) Below is Grats #1 & 2]