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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- Early(ish) Edition!

September 5, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Constructed out of a desire that afflicts, not to say, characterizes, many of us who walk the pencil-sketch world of blogs and such, this is one corner of the virtual world that can claim liberty through self-responsibility.

(To paraphrase one of our favorite movies): “That is, in fact, a bold statement.”

That said, we might add, (to quote another, less famous source), ‘But, it’s true.”)

Do yourself a favor. After reading the other TToT posts, dispel the thought: “But these writers are concise and sincere, heck, some of them approach eloquence in their sharing of people, places and things that inspire the state of gratitude. No way I can write like that.”

True. But, before you put away the keyboard (or phone, if’n you’re not, like old or something), read this post, this Wakefield Doctrine TToT.

ikr? You’re now thinking, “Holy shit! If they let that pass and get linked, I can totally fly under the radar and maybe even get feedback from one of the good Writers.”

So, have at it!

For the Wakefield Doctrine, our list of the people, places and things that inspired, incited and otherwise tricked us into harboring the higher-level emotion of gratitude is as follows:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) photo at the top of this post? think of those old Saturday morning cartoons… the one that involved dynamite, (like they didn’t all), and the fuse gets lit? The photo, (at the top), is the first step in a semi-successful tree removal. Hoky Smoke! that’s a prompt for a Secret Rule 1.3 Grat!! Meet us at Grat #8

5) …so the tree did what trees in forests do, (don’t tell anyone, but this one did, in fact, make a sound), and fell where planned. What wasn’t planned was walking on a bee’s nest when clearing the wreckage. As hypo-grats go, it wasn’t bad. We realized that we’d gone pretty much through a lifetime without getting stung by a bee(s)! For a clearer explanation of hypo-grats, our resident expert is Mimi, ask her. She esplains it better.

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) Speaking of rogerian tertiary aspects, If you find this bloghop enjoyable (well, lets throw out the lowest and… get all chi square on this thing) why not tell your friends and fellow bloggers and bloggerinae? We’d love to have them join us.

8) How is this gratitude bloghop (the TToT) different and, frankly better’n all the countless others? In our Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) we have what’s referred to as a hypo-grat! And a hypo-grat allows citing (and counting towards the ideal total of 10) things like Grat #5 (go on, go back and re-read it, we’ll wait.)

9) something, something

Wait! Gotta add: Grat 9.3 music and musical creativity… All three music vids are cover versions of an original song: Alice Cooper, The Temptations* and Rage Against the Machine. respectively. But, damn! To hear a genuinely good song and then ‘hear’ something the same but different. We mean, serially, who’d a thought RATM with horns! (Gotta link out to Nick, he being the Six Sentence Café and Bistro’s GateKeeper and ‘Man on the Board’. )

10) Secret Rule 1.3

*recorded by them, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong

music

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Monday RePrint -the Wakefield Doctrine- “We couldn’t have said it better ourselfs…”

August 11, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

“What? Oh yeah, you’re right! We did.”

(Last week we did say something about clarks, intelligence and a concomitant lack of self-consciousness (in the matter of the degree of said intelligence), didn’t we? So today’s subtitle is an excellent example of how this manifested from the earliest of days of this here blog here).

..on with the RePrintage!

be more of a clark? on purpose? are you serious?!? the Wakefield Doctrine

August 14, 2012

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

We all know that:

clarks think

scotts act

rogers feel

(and) ..we all know that scotts are the confident ones, they are the ones who do not hesitate to act, scotts are the natural leaders and when they shout to the group (and there is always a group around them), when it comes into the head of a scott to move, to act, to do something (because they are bored) and they say, “Hey!! Lets go this way! (most) people follow immediately, without hesitation or question.

(and) we all know that rogers are the confident ones, they are the ones who know all about the matter at hand, the whys and the wherefores and most importantly, they know about who else has been/is/or will be involved in the activity that you are curious about, rogers are the organized ones and when they say, “You should do it this way, (most) people will follow (the directions).

So what about the clarks?

(well) everyone knows that clarks are:

possessed of/by/with a really great sense of humor, well …better make that a rather odd sense of humor

a very caring and sensitive person, well …at least once you get to know her and not be put off by the weirdness

smart, so smart that its, well …not smart in terms of grades or day-to-day real life decisions, but in every otherway!

organized, has everything in his head, well organized on some level but if you need to remember something you said last year or the name of the actor in a 23 year old movie!

attractive, well not in what you might call the conventional way, but when you see how she offsets the tattoos with the boots and it, somehow ties together, kinda spooky actually

creative really more than anyone, well if creative is about the things that never were and will never be, then you have the right person

intuitive, she has a way of, well, I think she holds back how much she understands

weird well duh!

If you are (still) reading, then you are what we call a scott or a roger or a clark with a certain level of flexible intelligence*… and in an effort to increase the odds that you will continue reading, we will say this: if you are a scott then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect and if you are a roger, then you have what we call a secondary clarklike aspect. As you know, while we all develop as one predominant type (clark or scott or roger ) we always retain the capacity to experience the world as the ‘other two’ types. We call these two types the secondary aspect and the tertiary aspect. They have an effect on how you express your predominant personality type, but that is beyond the scope of this here Post here. Suffice to say, if you are not a (predominant) clark, then your secondary aspect most likely is clarklike because it is the insatiable curiosity and tolerance of the unknown that keeps you reading, despite all your instincts to the contrary.

So about the music that follows… the fun of totally enjoying a song by Bill Monroe, then hearing something like the Fred Hammond tune from yesterday’s Post and then having ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’ come on the radio and smiling for the pure joy of the wonderful and horrifying variety of things to appreciate that is available to you, when you are a clark.

*the ability to imagine another damn reality, without getting scared or mad

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Home of the original ‘Hat, for your damn head’.

Had a most excellent call-in this weekend. On the call: Denise (alternate host, co-anchor) roger (alternating weeks participant) and Cynthia! (Friend of the Doctrine and most excellent example of a clark with a significant-secondary scottian aspect and a pretty much fairly-well-developed tertiary rogerian aspect.

You oughta call in some Saturday. It’s a lot like these posts (try) to be: all about how the Wakefield Doctrine manifests in the lives of ‘real’ people.

Well, as real as clarks ever get. (lol We kid clarks. …But were actually serious.)

Interesting points (in the call-in): got into a ‘How was your last experience with going to school. The anecdotes were both enjoyable to hear and personally relatable.

(ed. was going to cite some portions of the conversation, the better to jump-start this Monday post. but, you know. clarklike predominant worldview here. oh well. you would have been fascinated, captivated and totally, “What was that telephone number again?!?!” )

ok, feeling guilty. not much body to this post.

that’s why god invented….RePosts!!

someone out there give us a date between July 2009 and, say, July 2020… we promise to

Hey!! wait!

just remembered an exchange (from the call-in)!!

We were asking Cynthia about her experiences as a clark in college, going as a student to the school there… and then we jumped off-topic (clarks. remember?*)

In any event, a thought pulled itself through the not-dusty-even-though-undisturbed-the-attic stacks of light-brown cardboard boxes and we said to the gathered:

“Man, if only there was a way to go out into the world and, somehow, get into all the elementary school and find the young clarks (about to fall prey to their own naive and not-so-realistic desire to be a part of and offer themselves up for membership in a Herd or a Pack without condition only the hope of acceptance). we could hand them a note: ‘It’s not you, it’s them‘. ”

And, then in true Saturday matinee style, the clarks would look around and, maybe, see the door to the classroom shutting without a person in sight…’cept a trailing-off assurance: ‘The Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them”

Damn! We’d pay to see that there movie.

* well, yes with one roger

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 19, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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. This, being a grat blog ‘with a difference’, makes valid pretty much any citation (of gratitude) i.e. Lat v. creacioun (see grat #8 below). Fifty years after the dream of a bloghop open to all of content intent became an idea, we have a bloghop that is the envy of the blogosphere.

So, read and enjoy. If you are new to this ‘hop, feel free to write, post and link up your own TToT.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) yard project next: Let there be Light! (lol) (sorry, no R. Frost… it’ll be downy soft before we know it) ok, brief explanation. the photo here shows the view from the cottage. there is a pond in those woods. the canopy (of pines and trees and such) is quite dense. so…

5) new project coming soon! (hint: rhymes with cut the front lawn once the summer bee-food is depleted)

BEFORE (well, actually, ‘Now’ which, depending on frame of reference, ultimately could be a valid before. ya know?)

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

7) something, something

8) the near-endless resource of information manifested in the internet. case-in-point the word ‘creacioun‘

9) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 28, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A ‘grat blog’ by any other name… (well, it is summer, so gratuitious and, in all likelihood inappropriate citing of Shakespeare notwithstanding), we will suggest you, (the Reader), stop by the others who are thumbnail’d at the bottom of this post, (yeah, anyone who just had a audiovisual of Homer Simpson) Damn! we want you at this ‘hop. Serially! If you have a blog, write a list of the Ten Things (or Places or People) that come to mind and link it at the bottom. You’re totally the, (whatever), kind of blogger that would enhance our weekly get together. In fact, if you join in this week we will totally give you, free of all owage, two free Grats!! You herd that correctly! Two free Grats*

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) * hey, we try to not self-referential ourselfs… but the image at the top of this post? two words: lol. We’re totally grateful for the four or five thousand images we’ve accrued over the years… WP lets us, like, spin the wheel, (of Time), just to see what comes up at random. (Full Disclosure: images are saved to month/year resulting in quite the ‘card file’ (Sorry, milens… referring to ancient tech). Today we ended up with John William Waterhouse’s ‘Hylas and the Nymphs‘. (We totally lack an informed appreciation of the ‘painting pitchas’ branch of the arts (nick‘s from the Café is our go-to guy on that stuff). But, to our imagined credit, we did think, after doing our ‘research’ (a clark’s Survey of the Arts degree from RIJC), we thought, with a smile, ‘Hey! Parrish… Waterhouse called and he wants his pastels back!’

5) a review! …sorry, got ahead of ourselfs… Friend of the Doctrine, cai wrote (and posted) a review of my story ‘the Case of the Missing Starr an Ian Devereaux Mystery’ how cool is dat?

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

8) had a decent week of landscaping (hard to appreciate in the photo) but the left-hand view corridor past the cottage (on the left behind the pine trees) down to the tree house (far right in the distance) is much more comprehensive.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 “…when compilin[g] a Grat List, the approach, both in terms of completion and satisfaction, of the final Grat (‘in limine’ Lat); the feeling of relief, satisfaction at the soon-to-be-completed list is a valid Grat Item for inclusion (traditionally Number 10) ibid op. cit.”

*some restrictions may apply. Current Hostinae and their family are not eligible… unless you sign up to be a host (sure)

music vids

sure, the ’80s and MTV introduced the music video to an audience who, for reasons less encouraging, were rather simple. With the turn of the Century, it really came into its own.