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October 4, 2020 By

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

Autumn’s arrival, like the first doubts about a loved one, spreading its russet tendrils; smothering the lively colours of summer’s joy.

 

This is our weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It was created by Lizzi and is currantly* hosted by Kristi.

The theme is gratitude, the (rhetorical) convention is a list of ten and the constraints are imposed by the individual. What more could an individual, caught up in the fun of seeing thoughts take on form and shape, ask for?

A total license? Why not? See Item 5

For the Wakefield Doctrine, the following represent things the existence of which inspire and incite the state of gratitude.

 

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine because it is a perspective that celebrates, (and facilitates), additional perspectives. and who wouldn’t benefit by additional perspectives, am I right? (lol… exactly!)

4) technology which provides almost enough distraction to make it through contemporary times un-scathed.

5) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) Simplest Description I’ve encountered: Like The Key of Solomon ( מפתח שלמה), ‘ceptin ya don’t have to wear silly clothes, fight off Pharisees or caliphs and while it won’t let you double your bank account, you can do anything else, provided you write a credible citation.**

6) Serial Stories: the Whitechapel Interlude and the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf

7) the enforced writing practice that comes as a fringe benefit to participating in the Six Sentence Story ‘hop. It’s fun, challenging and good for ya writing chops.

8) THIS SPACE AVAILALBLE (for anyone out there, reading while perched on a rail section of a socio-econ-geo-cultural division marker, curious? Want to try this bloghop out? But not badly enough to commit to a full post? Send in one of your Grats and I’ll post right here. See how it feels to see your thoughts in oled lights.)

9) our Friday afternoon walks (Una and I go around the block… at an invigorating 9 miles-per-hour)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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* canning season joke

** Secret Rule 7.2.4 ‘if they ask or, [I]f you find yourself backed into a corner, by a Reader wanting a ‘just, please, explain this Book, do you, like, make it up as you go along, or what…try the old superlative category and, by the time they read the footnotes1 you’ll be long gone

1) …exactly! the coast is clear!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 20, 2020 By

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

A black and white picture. One sees a chalice while another, the profiles of two people facing each other. An example of an ambiguous bi-stable image, aka (the) ‘Rubin Vase’, created by Edgar Rubin in 1915. For us here at the Doctrine, it serves as a reminder, perspective is everything.

 

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

Kristi hosts (with the help of Pat and Lisa, Dyanne and, of course Mimi) this long-running bloghop. The theme is gratitude and the approach is simple. Write/share/and-otherwise-list the people, places and things in your reality that have inspired/incited/or-nudged you into feeling grateful.

Pretty simple, isn’t it?

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) work It gives me something to do during the day that gets me out of the house, ’cause Una has her own schedule during weekdays, which involves a concentration (as we might have said in college) in napping.

4) Six Sentence Story each week a bunch of writers write a story-ette employing a prompt word. It is very good exercise, (in crafting the wordage) and fun to read.

5) Serials. the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and the Whitechapel Interlude. Each week, one (of these two serial stories) has a chapter added by way of a new Six Sentence Story.

6) Replaced old(er) car with new(er) version, there is something to be said for continuity*

7) No longer summer (Una and Phyllis don’t mind. Phyllis is in charge of moving new firewood onto rack and backyard stack, via yellow wagon to Una’s left)

8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE. for anyone out there in the Reader-zone thinking, ‘Hey, I could write one of those posts. Heck, if this Doctrine post is the bar, well, I’ll have a double!’  Come on down. But if you’re wanting to check the water temp first, send us a single Grat Item and we’ll plug it in right here. Give you a look-see and all.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 because without process how could anything begin and without an ending, how would we know? (Book of Secret Rules (Secret Book of Rules) Prologue to Chapter II ‘so what’s the deal with this Rule 1.3?’ et al ibid.

 

* Continuity is, as we all know, Habit’s younger brother, who, unlike his older brother appreciates the value of hard-work. To this older brother, (and his friends Novelty & Hormones), constant amazement, Continuity applies himself to his studies and, as a result, prepares for the future in a way that does not involve the wholesale destruction of irreplaceable braincells or a GPA that is kept afloat, like a seat cushion in the North Atlantic, SAT and Miller Analogy test scores solidly in the 99th percentile.

 

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September 14, 2020 By

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

There was a time, in the course of this record, that I wrote a post a day. Each was as different as the previous as they were foreshadowing those yet to be written. This was due to the topic of all posts at this blog, the Wakefield Doctrine.

Originally a chance observation of an interaction between two people, it grew into the unique perspective on life, the world and the people that make it up, entirely by the process of discovery, as opposed creation. In other words, the underlying view of reality was already there, the very first piece of the puzzle was genuine enough to allow only related facts, insights, suppositions and conclusions to be added. While you might find it amusing to take twenty-six boxes of jigsaw puzzles and dump them in a pile, when you were done fitting each curvio-trapezoidal chunk of cardboard and photo paper together, you would have twenty-six pictures, not twenty-one or nineteen.

And so it is with the Wakefield Doctrine. Once you have a certain, small, number of pieces, you are able to (re)-create the entire thing. That is testament to both the Doctrine and the person doing the assembly. One can only go to together one way, the other can assemble the parts only if they have a certain view of things, reality, if you will.

While we’ve arrived at a point where it might be tempting to assume that everything that might be said about the Wakefield Doctrine has been said, we all know better than that. Well, lets amend that last and say those of us with either a predominant clarklike* worldview or a significant secondary clarklike aspect can relax, with this qualifying sentence.

It seems to be that a certain requirement for those who would enjoy this little alternate personality types theory, this being whatever the name for the quality in people that permits (nay, requires) more than one perspective on the world. Because that, when all is said and done, is what the Wakefield Doctrine has to offer, one more perspective on life.

And, serially, who out there doesn’t know that more is better than less when it comes to perspective.

Thats all we have time for, this Monday morning.

y’all come back now, heah?

 

* in the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, personality types are referred to as ‘predominant worldviews’. This is a reflection of the belief that all of us, everyone, lives in a reality that is to a certain degree, personal. (Were we, Reader and Doctrine, to be standing on a corner** we might surely be seeing the same thing but, more than likely, what we are experiencing are two different things.)

 

**sure, we can make that Winslow, Arizona…

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September 5, 2020 By

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

 

This is the weekly edition of the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. All those, of like mind, are invited to share the people, places and things that have elicited the state of gratitude in their recent (or, not so recent) lives.

Very simple. Quite uplifting and fun, too!

For we like people, at the Wakefield Doctrine, the following are offered as examples of the awareness, passing and permanent, of the aspects of life that gives this here bloghop here, its name.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) Kristi for keeping the doors open

4) Lizzi for creating something that warranted a clubhouse (with aforementioned doors)

5) Josie for stepping up when the time for change required a new hostinae primae

6) Denise (and Zoe before her) for the Six Sentence Story

7) Serial story-writing the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf and The Whitechapel Interlude

8) technology and cutely photogenic fauna

9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 31, 2020 By

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

Writing’s a funny thing. Despite the fact there are invariably a number of aspects that readers may respond to in a given piece, sometimes, one resonates more than others.

This Sunday’s TToT was no exception. There appears a consensus regarding our assertion that, making the effort to see the world through the eyes of the other person, is a worthy ambition.

I suspect there’s the lesson, for those of us who would try to offer a glimpse of our personal reality, aka writing, everything matters. The things we enjoy the most, we expect to have superior hold on the reader’s attentions.

As luck would have it, later in the day yesterday, I had a conversation with Phyllis about this week’s, ‘Reader Favorite Grat Item, Coming in at number 1 with a bullet! Number Four, the Everything Rule!!’

What underlies ‘the Everything Rule’, and is a constant challenge to me to convey in writing, is, How real the personal realities of the Wakefield Doctrine are.*

We all talk about others, especially those who are not in complete agreement with us; usually couched in phrases such as, ‘…they insist on believing‘ or ‘…they’re otherwise quite intelligent, except on this one matter‘ or even, ‘...how can you believe that?!’

In the Wakefield Doctrine, we allow that, living in a personal reality that is not an exact duplicate of our own, things might be different. The Doctrine takes the position that we all have the same goal; trying to get through life the best we can, following the path we have acquired up until the current moment.

This brings us to the Everything Rule. The Rule reminds us to consider an event/occurrence, an acceptance/a rejection, protestations of innocence/a profession of undying love with an awareness of the state of reality the other person is most likely experiencing.

If we do this, make an effort to see the world as the other person is experiencing it, we will spare ourselves the outrage/misinterpretation//the gut-punch of disappointment that is all too often our reaction when people in our lives do not act as we expect them to/want them to/hoped they would.

Because the Wakefield Doctrine is about you, not them. And this is not all, ‘me me me’ self-centeredness. Its just that the Wakefield Doctrine promises only to help us with one thing, ‘to better appreciate how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. (As always, we repeat: we do not say, ‘how we relate to the world’, we say, ‘how we relate ourselves to the world around us’. Huge dif.)

Thanks for stopping by and voting for the Wakefield Doctrine as ‘The-bestest-personality-theory-that-only-a-small-percentage-of-the-population-will-have-fun-with,-even-though-them-others-would-surely-get-something-from, if’n-they’d-lighten-up-a-bit-and-utilize-the-gift-of-perspective-a-touch-more’.

 

music vid? of course!

from our current favorites, the cast (and writers) of ‘the Magicians’ who do the impossible and make light ‘n airy 1980s pop music enjoyable.

 

* New Readers: a fundamental condition to the structure of the Wakefield Doctrine is that reality is, to a small but certain degree, personal. Nothing weird, like figuring out how to fly** or walking down the street in a downpour without getting wet. At the intersection of ‘the world and me’ there is a tiny, little gap. Better yet, there is a room. (yeah, way wide but not very deep, lol), that we have the option to decorate, to paint the walls, if you will. That is personal reality)

** god! to have a tenth of the talent of Douglas Addams as evidenced in his answer to the age-old question of how man might learn to fly…lol

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