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t(he) Unicorn Challenge -the Wakefield Doctrine- “In which our Narrator, rumours of un-reliability notwithstanding, ventures out in Time.”

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

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Unicorn Challenge.

Hosted by jenne and ceayr, each week bloggers, writers, dreamers and those cast on the shore of the Land of Fiction are invited to look-upon an image provided by the hosts. Whether tea leaves not once-vital entrails borne, our stories are welcomed. There is a limit, not on topic or fictional-tropisms, but on wordcount. Two Hundred Fifty words.

This week’s un-punched ticket:

 

Granite and brick and mansard tower guarding God’s locker;
Beneath the squared vault, service stairs to Belle Époque

Leaning against my rental car, I tilted my head just enough for the casual passerby, or constantly-panning cctv to assume I was reading the letter in my left hand. Anachronism 101, the most req-of-prerequisites at the Academy, echoed as I took out my cell phone and held it at the same level, relative to my target’s probable location.

The memory of something Professor Abbott said on the first day of class tripped a pluperfect humor-circuit, “Your grade will have had been calculated only in the course of your first assignment.” I laughed aloud, here and now, standing in the streets of Arras in the rain.

The letter was more than a surveillance prop, it was the second step in my assignment. The first, of course, was writing it and leaving it in a safe deposit box for 139 years. Being here, in front of the Hotel Moderne, was actually the third step. Now, looking both ways, I crossed the Boulevard Faidherbe and started the process of closing the temporal loop.

I couldn’t help but smile at the photo in my phone of the hotel registry: D. Oppelgänger Rm 23.

Standing at the door, the thought came to me, ‘Suppose I don’t actually knock?”

Of course, I did. The traditional sound of knuckles-on-wood filled my hotel room, signaling my graduation from the Academy of Temporal Investigative Agents.

 

 

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise the only rule is: six sentences in length.

Prompt Word:

PLATFORM

“Damn vehicular peristalsis…’

The sole occupant of the car felt a mental finger depress a well-worn, (so worn that if one could see it, they would observe a cream-colored rounded-corner protrusion, somewhere between the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex), and in the slightly concave surface, a faded-black letter ‘O’,  the man’s ‘Out-loud thinking’ button.

“What did you say?”

The sole passenger’s face had the look of affectionately-patient resignation, the corners of her mouth a true telltale, the time-pressed creases of age rose upwards; her partner’s youthful eccentricities, like some wines, a handful of paintings and all of love, smoothed themselves over time into endearingly creative expressions.

As traffic resumed forward motion, she recalled the conclusion of his last bi-decade physical; his physician made a point of mentioning a certain behavior/syndrome common to a certain stage of life, “The Latin phrase is: ‘Quo profundiores cogitationes sunt, eo majore apud nos loquimur’.

“I think therefore I mutter,” The man, stepping off the ledge-platform that stuck out of the end of the exam table, continued,

“We,” looking at his wife, perched on the only seating that didn’t have stirrups or a covering of white paper, “have an agreement that, when in public she will look at me and nod, like we were in a conversation and I will refrain from swearing excessively.”

 

 

 

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

Let’s get started with two jumping off points: 1) yesterday’s Post which we ended with the suggestion that we (your HN) may serve as an illustration example and  b) yesterday’s Comment from Misky, (“…which of three is an “ourselfs” – and is that the same as ourselves, as in how do we put ourselves into someone else’s shoes“.)

The fact is that although we, all of us, have but one predominant worldview, we never lose the potential to experience the world as do ‘the other two’. And, seeing how we are so unselfishly, graciously and desperately offering our ownselfs as test monkey/space gerbil/psych-major’s thesis volunteer college sophomore, we offer ourselfs as: clark predominant worldview with a significant secondary scottian aspect and a weak rogerian tertiary.

So, to keep this simple: we have a meeting today with some people in a new organization. We have something to explain to them, (kinda like selling), and they are motivated to want us to convince them they should do what we suggest, (kinda like successful sales).

What does the Wakefield Doctrine offer in this context/situation?

The coolest thing about the Wakefield Doctrine as a way to self-improve oneself is: there is no need to ‘learn’ anything ‘new’. While my predominant worldview is not most likely to suceed at sales, my secondary scottian aspect is. (Note: we’ll leave the distinction between ‘sales’ and ‘relationship building’ for another post. Spoiler Alert!! One is scottian the other is… rogerian!!. Don’t tell anyone.)

But, before we continue, let’s take a moment for some real Doctrine fun.

In the early days of this blog, when we sought to describe the three personality types, we would use the concept of personal reality. We’ll say now, as we did then, personal reality is something most people find reasonable. It’s not anything weird or extravagant, no flying toasters or talking dogs (well, maybe, the talking dogs)… but simply put, everyone’s reality is, to small but significant degree, personal.

Still with us? cool. With time and development of writing skills(sic) we’ve come to describe the Doctrine in terms that (hopefully) are more accessible to the New Reader while still useful to any Students to the School there. In the matter of personal reality, we’ve come to focus on the concept of relationships, specifically, ‘How we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up’.

But in the beginning, we spoke of the individual, (albeit mega-young lifeform), realizing their reality was that of (an) Outsider(clark), Predator(scott) or Herd Member(roger). And we meant it! (lol) Serially, we intended then, (and, at a certain level of discussion, now), to maintain that personal reality is real.

(Hey, on a personal note? We did not decide, at the age of five, to sign our Christmas cards to other family members with our full name because we were trying to be funny. (lol) We signed with our full name just to be on the safe side. To avoid scrutiny. (Honey, I can’t quite make out that first name, do we know a carl far.…)

A clark (or a scott or a roger) lives and, more importantly for today’s discussion, grows up in a real reality of one of three characteristic qualities. We didn’t find a ‘See and Say’ book titled ‘So You’re an Outsider!’ We adapted and compensated and developed the social strategies as best we could to survive in our worlds.

(Anticipated Reply to Comment from our more emotionally-developed Readers: Yeah, at first (and later at times) but we found much to occupy our time, so loneliness is not the first descriptive word that comes to mind.)

…to be cont’d

 

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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

It is said that the Wakefield Doctrine can be the most efficacious of tools for self-developing oneself.

This is true.

This assertion will come as no surprise to most Readers, as there are nearly as many self-improvement schema, systems, programs and secret-religions as there are personality type/typing/this-is-you.

Of course, the Wakefield Doctrine’s Kyrie Eleison is different.

The road to self-improvement is about (our) relationship with the world, not: the things-we-know, the skills-we-hone or the focal-length of our emotions.

New Readers? That, that last line? Classic Hint. (Totally gonna be on the Exam). What our writer friends might refer to as foreshadowing So, if you haven’t been doing your assigned reading, you better hope your neighbor doesn’t mind your looking over at their notes. This is about to get all bullet-pointy.

The Wakefield Doctrine maintains that if we’re out to change our lives, then it is not about learning things and facts, skills and routines. It it about changing the way we relate ourselfs to the world around us and the people who make it up.

Someone just mutter, ‘Jeez, asking much?’

Yes. Yes we are. (Well, no. No we are not.) The thing about the Doctrine is that it recognizes the nature of each of the three predominant worldviews’s relationship to the world. All without judging, criticizing and, otherwise saying, ‘Well, you know, things might go smoother for you if you just realized/did/accepted (fill in the complimentary quality from the diametrically opposed predominant worldview)

Enough for the morning.

(We’re not just the Curator of the Wakefield Doctrine, we’re also a Student* too! And, today begins Practice Number IIXVVXCCMM)

(…to be cont’d)

* …to school there.

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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 bloghop. The goal, (for participants), is to compile a list of ten people, places and things that have elicited the state of gratitude. It, (the list), can be historical, contemporaneous or, (don’t tell anyone), essentially fictional.

(Warning to New Participants: thinking that simply making up a list will insulate you from any emotional blowback on ‘making up a grat list’? Way riskier than you might imagine. So, go ahead, keep it simple, just type-down the stuff that made you think, ‘Whew! Glad that did/didn’t happen!” If it’s your first visit to the TToT and you start to falter and despair of completing your contribution, lets us know. We keep a pack of breeze-dried Grats just for the purpose of helping a new Participant.’

Our list, for this week at the crumbling precipice of Summer, is:

1) Una. A very young chodsky pes. Taken in her home country, the Czech Republic, before her impressive, Air-Miles intensive trip to here.

2) Phyllis (somewhere to the West Northwest of Una, a buncha miles.)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) something, something

5) the Six Sentence Story bloghop   Six Pic of the Week: ‘And the Finalists Are…‘   by Anne McSommers

6) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop. Ya gotta read this one!: ‘Time Passing‘  by jenne

7) Current summer project: Figure out if it’s worth renting a combine for the front and side meadowland.

8) Fern Circles: Kinda hard to see in the photo. Every Summer there appears a depression in the middle of this patch of ferns. About this time, (in July) it appears and grows. The individual ferns are not broken or otherwise destroyed, just bent flat to the ground. And the eponymous cool thing is: a) it grows larger by the week and 2) takes on a spiral pattern. Hopefully we’ll find a way to get more meaningful photation going forward as the process continues.

9) new home office (the computer on the left) A much shorter trip to the office now.

10) Secret Rule 1.3

 

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