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Tre-Print Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…it’s ok, you can come out now, all the twos have gone away and the rogers are quiet.”

February 23, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

“Abe say, ‘Man you must be puttin me on’.”

Flat out reprint.

No contemporary insights, wise critiques or smarmy asides.

Below is the first Doctrine post mentioning Wednesday.

From May 2010

5:30? PM?! no, no frickin way!!! the Post always goes out in the morning…it is Wednesday right??!! It can’t be that late…damn..

OK, OK I can deal with this…
“HI! Welcome to the Latefield Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clark, scotts and rogers). We apologise for the lateosity of this Post, time just got away from us. (we already used all the Chambers Brothers references)? So, we got a good response to yesterdays (really, I only took a short naplette this morning, I really meant…), to Mel’s guest appearance on the Doctrine. The good news is that the (next installment) of Couples in Love (Part Tree) should be out tomorrow…sure, mid-day without doubt…Friday is a heart attack cinch, look for it bright and incredibly early Friday.

Will finish this tonight and get it up before days end, just because, I guess. For the last few weeks it has been an article of pride that a new Post shows up each and every day. Yeah, the quality versus quantity debate is very much alive, but I want to decide it not under duress, which not getting a new Post in today would create. So pardon my mediocrity for today, at any rate. You know, maybe that is the appeal I will make to you Readers! Damn straight!

Hey Readers!! What do you want? A new Post every day or only what I (personally) consider a good Post, irrespective of the rate, be it once a day or 3 times a week.
Tell me…I really want to know. Right below the video, at the end of the Post is a place for Comment. Leave a Comment, tell me what you think about the quality/quantity question. I will let you know the response by the weekend, until then it is a new Post every damn day.

WARNING WARNING WARNING
the following section is to be read by clarks only!
…because you wouldn’t get it, that’s why….
…you don’t think that’s true?…let’s do this, I will ask you a single question and based on your first and immediate answer, you will agree to not read the following section, even if it means closing your eyes for the next few paragraphs.
If you answer this question with anything but a serious answer (including “what do you mean” and “why would I want to do that”) then you are a scott or a roger and so don’t need to read the next section.
…ready?
…..sure?

(If you could), who would you rather be right this moment?

alright, that should take care of the scotts and the rogers…yes, clark?
no, gender and age are not optional variables in the context of this particular question…good thought though…

So here it is. This whole Wakefield Doctrine thing is obviously the work of a clark. And because of that, the intent of the the Doctrine is to develop a tool to help us attain our goal.
(…clearly stated in the page on clarks, clark)
(yes, I know you knew that, but you still have to read those particular words to get what I am driving at)…
Because, my blog , my rules. (You know you are talking to another clark, because they will already have some sort of system to help understand the world and find the secret)…yeah I know I’m running on…waiting for the last scott or roger to get totally bored….

Alright. I want to let you know that this Doctrine is proving to be efficacious, even at this early point and I am discovering some previously un-anticipated effects…(very funny…). I will not go into detail, but will say this…as the effect increases you will begin to see a fundamental change in the scotts and rogers in your world…a ‘thinning out’, an ‘increasing transparency’, try not to be alarmed. Will report more as I learn more.
Just wanted you to know.

…” and the roger said to the scott, that’s not my….” Oh hi! Didn’t see you come back. Yeah all done here.

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Friday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “like they used to be.”

February 18, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

(Am fighting the temptation to write a Doctrine post on Friday(s)… surely one of the most quietly potent days of the work week.)

But I shan’t!*

Here’s a post from 2018. It was the guest of times, it was the wurst of times.

(Actually, true story: the Finish the Sentence Friday was my gateway bloghop. Thanks to Kristi and Janine and Kenya and them, I started joining in and getting hooked on comments. We’ve all been there.)

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

If you aren’t in a hurry and have read the line above the photo, you’ve all the warning you are going to be afforded. That’s not meant to be aggressive or adversarial or sound like I’m being a dick. It’s just that ~~sometimes~~ very often, in order for me to participate in a bloghop, particularly one in which the contributors are real people and possessed of considerable skills, well, I just have to give myself the slip.

Trust me, it’s better this way.

Where was I?

Finish The Sentence Friday. Kristi and Kenya and them are all over the Listicle thing. (jeez… I hope I have that right) I better cut ‘n paste the instructions and such.

Hi all! We’re on with the Listicle week of FTSF with “10 things that are better than anything except being in love.” The linkup will open up at 10pm tomorrow, Feb. 8 (eastern). Interpret as you see fit and join us! The party stays open through late Sunday evening so there’s plenty of time.
Write your listicle, and head over to Kenya‘s site at https://www.kenyagjohnson.com/ or mine at http://www.findingninee.com. Hope to see you there

1) ‘List formats’ because, if you don’t have any content to start off, they’re real simple to outline. In fact, simply writing out the numbers (with parenthesizes and not letting the auto-format editor force you into meaningless indents), goes a long way to start the process.

2) Getting the first line written in a post. Ernest Hemingway, (not to be confused with Doug Henning) is believed to have said, ‘The first draft of anything is shit‘. That’s got to make you wonder what the first draft of that advice looked like.

3) To get way serious for a minute, if pressed for time, I could, in fact, list a number of things in my life that are ‘better than anything except being in love‘. The problem is that I participate in a weekend bloghop called the ‘Ten Things of Thankful’. It is a grat ‘hop and in it we list the things in our lives that elicit a feeling of gratitude. The problem with that is, I’m a clark. It’s not that clarks don’t have emotions, (or are not emotional), it’s just that we’re kinda the Ikea of the three personality types. You know, cleverly designed with a great finished look, some assembly required. We (clarks) have as large a capacity for emotion as scotts and rogers, we just don’t always read instructions real good and, like a RTA bed, if you’re in a hurry to use it, you don’t always end up with what you see in the picture on the box. Though you can sleep in it (or on it).

4) Hey! you know what I like? A bloghop that I curate called ‘the Gravity Challenge’‘. (It is such a clarklike bloghop! lol) It’s a weight gain/loss ‘hop. It serves an accountability function (that can be helpful in one’s efforts to self-improve-oneself). Simplicity itself. We send on photos of the readout on our scale every morning except Sunday. The cool thing is Kristi’s Rule. (Kristi Brierley is one of the charter members and when I suggested the idea of simply taking a photo, she added the element that makes the ‘hop effective… the photo can be all or part of the readout, either side of the decimal.) The point being, the participation is about change, not a set goal or number. It’s fun.

5) I will resist the temptation to list my other bloghops… wait, there’s only one other, zoe’s Six Sentence Story. It’s a fun exercise and perfect for my efforts at remedial composition. (God, if only I paid attention in high school English instead of trying to learn the lead riff to ‘Sunshine of My Love’… hell, by now I’d be…)

6) The halfway point in any List-format bloghop is totally one of my favorite things. (Perhaps a far distant second to being in love… my definition of which, given the demographic ’round here, I’m totally loathe to reveal. It’s not just being a clark. It’s being from Y Chromia. A mystical land where all good efforts are rewarded with loud noises and un-conditional admiration.)

7) I should return to the issue of clarks and emotion. Maybe not. clarks reading this know what I mean. scotts and rogers will also know, provided they have significant secondary clarklike aspects. (the Doctrine maintains that while we are the personality type that reflects one personal reality (that of the Outsider, the Predator or the Herd Member), we have the potential of secondary and tertiary aspects. As an example, I’m a clark which means I should not be hitting ‘Publish’ on this post. I have a secondary scottian aspect, and so I have known to, in certain circumstances, run up and get in people’s faces and shout, ‘Hey!’)

8) I suspect any number of people here will have listed ‘family’ (and individual family components) by now in their respective lists. And that is as it should be. I, for one, read Dana’s posts and think… ‘See, clark? A post can be organized and logical and coherent and still convey genuine heartfelt emotion.’ Or the great ‘look at the photos and I will tell you a tale that launches from there’ of Tamara, or the personal journal directness of Kenya (where you feel the elements of her life that she shares). Janine, well, Janine is probably the longest-standing commenter here at the Doctrine (don’t hold that against her). No, don’t even get me started on Kristi Campbell... When I first snuck in the FTSF, she not only didn’t rat me out, she made me feel like I could relax. (Unfortunately she also wrote blogposts that, as I read, inspired visuals of my computer (trailing the keyboard) flying out my windows and crashing into a million pieces on the deck. But I somehow didn’t.)

9) For me, however, (with my clarklike appreciation for the ‘real’ world) when it comes to family, (Phyllis and Una), I go to the things, the features in the world that they have formed and created and even, remodeled. This photo is not simply of a woman, a dog and a treehouse. It is a representation of the part of my reality that is pretty damn amazing.

10) Speaking of pretty amazing. Here is a photo of Ola. She was the best thing that ever happen to me.

* no, really… still a legit word**

** in old Downtown Abbey episodes and blogs that eschew the simple and direct when engaged in rhetoric***

*** lol

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

February 6, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Created by Lizzi

Hosted by Dyanne

Co-hosted by Patricia, Lisa (and Mimi)

A (blog)post of ten,(more or less), items related to the experiential state of gratitude; id est, the people, places and things in our lives that elicit the psycho-spiritual state of gratitude (Latin: heus! Gratius multas*)

1) Una (In the photo above, being on guard is not merely a job, it’s a vocation). This would be a photo-from-winters-past. Not sure of the year.

Phyllis driving past my office yesterday. (See Grat Item Seven)

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story the place for fiction suited to be read on the run, you know, tartine di finzione**

5) serial story writing and hanging out at the Six Sentence Café and Bistro. (including: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘)

6) the internet, or, to be more precise, the capacity of the www to allow people to make available a near-limitless supply of information, true and/or false; fact and fiction… it’s all good, ’cause, as the old saying reminds us, ‘Facts are like the familial designations aunt and uncle; they allow a more personal relationship with a stranger, if one chooses‘.

7) the business we have chosen*** which put us in a position to take a photo of Phyllis passing my office on an early Saturday afternoon as I prepared to take long-standing clients out to look at some new construction. It was fun.¹

8) that real estate is so suited to the on-going study and practice of a certain, un-named personality theories. (ok, one hint: ‘It rhymes with wakefield doctrine)

9) something, something

10) S.R. 1.3 From the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) which is, in all modesty, one of the best of all features available to those who would write made-up stuff and would prefer not to get cited by some rhetoric maven (or mavette) who would get all strict-sixth-grade-English-teacher on yer ass, insisting that a good story has to make sense and adhere to a certain logical consistency. To which we say, “Listen Lady/Mister, this is the Wakefield Doctrine, we don need no steenkin’…” …yow! Exactly how much of the fictional/imaginary lobe of my brain has been coopted by old movie lines and song lyrics?!?! lol

* interesting, the role of italics in communication. That Latin phrase? Limit the italics to one word (multas) and you get a whole different emotion (thanks to the internet See Grat Six above)

** Full Disclosure: googlized Italian, trust we don’t offend any people who grew up in non-google world

*** yeah, movie fans will recognize that line from a scene in Godfather II

1) go ahead. impress us… (Hint: spoken by one of the lead actors in the Godfather Trilogy, in a 1980s movie. (Betcha Nick gets the reference.)

music

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

January 22, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT)’s weekly contribution from the inmates, habitués, chronic offenders, lucid insomniacs and bloggers who comprise the word-grinder know as the Wakefield Doctrine.

(And, even if they have a Doctrine-approved tee shirt, Wakefield Doctrine hat, (for your damn head), or a bumpersticker that reads “My child is a clark/scott/roger, what’s yours? Do you even know?!” These people? Those hiding behind the editorial ‘we’, like a plastic-coated, red-tassled 12×14 restaurant menu, should not be faulted for the company they keep.)

Where were we?

Lixxie, (evil half-twin to the TToT Founderess, Lizzi), managed to convince Lizzie, (well-intentioned one-third twin to the outrageous Lixxie), to pick ten bloggers to cohost the bloghop she created. We, in a plot twist that was, shall we say, totally unanticipated, were included in the original group of co-hostinae. (Lets put that down in the Grat list at number Six.) What was not evident at that time, (the early ‘twenty-teens’ like 2013 or 2014), was the ’emotional tontine’ effect of the privilege of hosting a ‘hop. (Sure, why not put this, as a semi-hypograt, at number Eight).

And the rest is history.

1) Phyllis ___________________________________↓

(from a previous, less-that-twenty-degrees-daytime-temperature sort of day)

2) Una ___________________↑

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) serial stories (the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf)

5) Six Sentence Story where flash fiction and skill-enhancing writin’ be gettin’ done.

6) Offered the opportunity to be a co-host to this here bloghop here (way, way back through a shin-high pile of calendars)

7) (hypo grat^{from the BoSR/SBoR}) Became a co-host at this here bloghop here…

8) Our host, Dyanne, who quite graciously insisted we use a photo we found at the TToT Facebook group. Thanks, D!

9) Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) chapter that allows something, sometimes not sought out by a recipient, nevertheless it (the aforementioned ‘something’), it proceeds, in time to become significant in a body’a life. (oh, yeah… hypograts are allowed. These are the things that we don’t like when they occur but with a certain, sophisticated understanding of the concept of gratitude, become more recognizable). Don’t ask us! Mimi is the one in this crew who can esplain that advanced a concept.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 “...hey, get yourself to Number Five and it’s downhill easy from there… and the last Grat Item is free!” BoSR/SBoR op. cit. ibid and doncha know…

music vids

https://youtu.be/fWddupznX6U

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

December 18, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Today is Saturn’s Day. Our founderess, being one of the blogosphere’s leading authorities on matters both mythological and parenthetical, centered her creation, (Ten Things of Thankful aka TToT) on the this day. (Of course, the full Holiday of the Grats, runs from Thursday(ish) through Monday or Tuesday, ’cause, like, the weekend, ya know?)

Hey! You know who we’ve been seeing on the Book of Face*? Kristi

(New Readers of the Doctrine, yeah, we know you’re going totally-Arnold Horschach** “I know! I know!” This is surely a Grat for the list… thank you)

In any event, Kristi was one of the original hostinae, back in the day, and, in our metaphor-obsessed way of appreciating the Life Virtual, was one of the cool kids who not only didn’t make fun of us when we first showed up, but actually let us sit at the same table. You know, high school cafeteria table? About twelve, fourteen feet long, three wide, had metal folding legs that could be booby-trapped by those resentful of those of us, (who clearly did not fit in), but for reasons that only made them angrier, just wouldn’t go away.

… what? Ten Things of….

lol

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (say with us, ‘sine qua non, binyons! sine qua non’)

4) Kristi Campbell Back in the early days, one could, on occasion, encounter an online discussion on the topic, ‘Are ‘online relationships, aka Virtual Friends, the equal to traditional friends in the ‘real’ world?’ Our favorite response was: ‘Yes. As soon as you encountered a conversation or exchange with that included, ‘Remember the time that...'”

5) Serial writing: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

6) Early Friend of the Doctrine, Andy and his blog, ‘Spatula’ which, unless we’re mistaken*** was one of the first bloggers to put the Doctrine on their blogroll

7) Six Sentence Story the place for short, short stor…

8) Minute 01:07 in the Miles Davis music vid below. (You’ll know it when you see it.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (Because, without a tool, nay, the license, to imagine beyond our established boundaries we surely forsake the greatest gift/curse of the gods)

* Friend of the Doctrine Andy (writer of the most excellent, unfortunately now out of print, ‘Spatula in the Wilderness’) contributed that one, from back in the day.

** OCR (Old Cultural Reference) Hey, it’s the internet! Go look it up

*** yeah, we know! as if

Music vid