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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.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 20, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

Lots of grats to cover, so lets get right to it…

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

6) the level of …sophistication might not be the right word, but hey, this is the Wakefield Doctrine, do we sound like we’re overly concerned with using the correct word? In any event, one of the things that distinguishes this gratitude blog(hop) from others in the genre is one thing: a) the acceptance of hypograts in a TToT and 2) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules). This, of course, leads us to cite the hostinae of this spiritual circus, (in the old fashion traveling carnival that wended it’s apocryphal way through our generation’s memories of childhood (both real and nineteen six-tified)… without the bad stuff that is the unfortunate reality of the milieu.

7) oh kay!! dodged that ‘psst come ‘ere. wanna show ya something

8) Our hostinae: Mimi (who, for any New Readers and/or recent participants) is our resident expert on the proper use and presentation of the concept of hypograts. and…and!! if you have the nerve, totally ask her to share a Boudreau & Thibodeau joke (you can thank us later)… Dyanne, Denise, Kristi, Lisa and Misky

9) Hypo-grat: Today is the last day of Summer

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 17, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Thie is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A weakly collection of emotional artifacs intellectual detris and other flotsam of everyday life, it’s fun and you should join in.

If you’re weird-warning lights are pulsing, we have some very talented co-hostinae who will be happy to walk you through the process (and past that room with the odd sounds and strobing lights). Give ’em a shout, you won’t regert it. cohostinae: Mimi, Kristi, Lisa, Dyanne, Denise and Misky.

For the Doctrine, the following list of ten(ish)

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Order of Lilith and the kind words of Misky last week. While it’s probably best to simply continue to write about the adventures of our characters as we did in one Six this week, in the interim we;ll do random chapters, like finding the next issue of a magazine in a dentist waiting room. So, from somewhere in the middle of ‘the Whitechapel Interlude we have this interaction (interest note: the characer of Count St. Loreto appears in other storues from the Wakefield Doctrine Serial Storues! A taste:. Click Here.

5) amusing photo of a clark’s solution to a problem. the ‘problem’ being: how to best document a broken pane of glass in a window. Interesting ‘language training’ in Wakefield Doctrine for our more advanced students! We see how an average clark would solves the problem. A better way of saying that is, ‘this is how the solution manifests in the world of the Outsider’ (lol read that last phrase again look at the photo…clarks will get it)

6) Hoku Smoje! We remembered to take a Before photo! (of course, this is actually a ‘Now’ photo. it does serve to set up the ‘After’ photo (once we’ve completed the clean-up refresh of Ola’s grave). Though it should be understood, the abandoned graveyard in the forest is a fun look as well. (scene: brushing away pine needles to show OLA 1991-2001 bracketed by carved-relief dogwood branches)

7) bloghops!! the Unicorn Challenge and the Six Sentence Story. Go there. Read. Participate. If you’re really daring, tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

8) Part of the required material for the renovation project is beach sand from Ola’s favorite beach. Below is a photo of the first of a number of trips to harvest said material.

9) the internet in general, the utube videos below inparticular. Warning! You must be “T^H^I^S _OLD” to know the references and enjoy the thing.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

music

First vid? No introduction….err possible. (damn! this internet does have a good side)

presto! no sharks!

of course we found a metal version!

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two…two…Tuesday-in-one! -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 22, 2025 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Interesting thing. Remember that ‘How to Publish Independently …etc’ thing we attended a couple of weeks ago? Well, it biweekly (or is that, ‘half-monthly’ or…duodecimally?) lol whatever.

We may not have written about, no, wait, we did.

Hold on… we’ll check, (do your own visual: tottering off to a bookshelf over-loaded with dusty folders… wait. you people have read this blog for long enough to know where we’re going.)

New Readers? We’re nothing if not about imagining the imagination of the Readers and Visitors. Vicarious? Thy name is Curator (of the Wakefield Doctrine). Like ever adolescent daydream about the first real date (“I’ll do that and then, they’ll probably will say…and I can…”)

you’ve all been young, right? Don’t blame the messenger.

ok. just checked. Apparently we have not yet updated y’all on how the first installment of our attending the ‘How to Write Publish Good Seminar’ went.

Damn! Avoided a RePrint. And, just between you and us and the lampost* it was…interesting. Actually, more than interesting.**

Quick backstory: Four Part Series ‘Self-Publishing and Making a Career Writing Fiction’ hosted by the Ashaway Free Library. Taught by local author Gage Greenwood.

As a matter of fact, the first session prompted a serious discussion among some of the followers of everyone’s favorite personality theory. On Saturday Night’s call-in we had Denise and Roger¹ on and that resulted in a very interesting and informative discussion of the primary take-away from the moderator of the seminar: “The best strategy in independent publishing is to focus on developing a fan base. A personal fan base.”

First discussion was with Phyllis. (New Readers: she is a roger with a significant secondary clarklike aspect. That latter results in insights into the Doctrine as a whole that would be impossible to one who, though a roger, lacked a strong-enough secondary clark)

She say, “That makes complete sense. If you’re going to introduce something new to your Herd, it better have your stamp of approval. And no roger is going to like something that they don’t know that a lot of other rogers already know. …you know?”

yeah. you read that right. Personal as in, ‘get your Readers to like you first and then your stories.’ Get one and the rest will follow.

The discussion on Saturday Night’s call-in was along similar lines. It did, however, continue and explore the thesis: can a clark do the self-promotion that is inferred by this simple sounding strategy? There followed a spirited discussion of Herd, Stephen King, faking emotional content and, at the bottom of it all, the fundamental proposition of the Wakefield Doctrine:

We are, all of us, born with the potential to relate ourselfs to the world around us in three characteristic styles. At a very early age this relationship is so established as to become the personal reality in which we grow, mature and otherwise develop our social/interpersonal strategies for getting through life. While we lock into one, (and only one), relationship, i.e. as an Outsider (clark), a Predator (scott) or a Herd Member (roger) we never lose the potential for relating as do ‘the other two’. Some, we might add, have this potential in greater amounts than do others. As curator we might be described as having ‘a significant secondary scottian and a weak tertiary rogerian aspect’.

The Doctrine maintains, ‘Hey! You coulda been a clark or a scott… or, even a roger. Don’t worry about acquiring something, some knowledge from the world. Look within. The relationship that offers the way and style of living that is integral to your contemplated (self)-improvement is already within you. Practice, yo. Practice.

*No, since you ask, we have no idea what prompted the scottian accent.

** hey! thanks for the music vid prompt!!

who said that? yeah. you’re right! That roger. the lifeform, the Herd, the 2 plus 2 can only equal 4, the ‘There is a Right Way and a bunch of other ways, we’ll be happy to make that distinction for you”.