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More-is-more Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 21, 2024 By

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

damn! We may have already completed our morning prosisthenics*

But, then again, that’s why god invented RePrint posts!

(ok, time to go all audio-visual on this bad-boy**)

‘…send in the sans’ the Wakefield Doctrine TToTwo “…do not Read this Post… still editing!” (no! I’m serious! it’s 8:59 am EST and I have to Post it un-finished)

November 10, 2013

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

Not much on following Directions, are you? You thought I was joking about not reading this yet??  Fine then. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I have to open the lines for the Wakefield Doctrine Video brunch, I have not finished editing this Post (read: re-write)… well, since you insist on reading this, how about you help a blogger out here… any suggestions, revisions, edits or anything else submit as a Comment and I will make the change.

Hey! Thanks…. (no, I think I better just save that, in case we need it at the end of the Post)

Item 1: grateful for my willingness to employ the term ‘writer’s block’ and not feel self-conscious enough to delete it and find another word! there is still an underlying self-consciousness extant in this experience that has me….  ‘looking around the room’ when I refer to myself as a writer…lol  no! seriously I do! I think of writers as people with… writing skills and, at the risk of indulging in a form of self-centeredness, I still am not comfortable including myself in that group

2) The Second Item: the Post from… that new guy… Mike… the guy with the granddaughter and his daughter is a photographer… wait a minute, hold on…  Joe!  that’s it!  his blog is called:  Joe Floggers(??!)  his contribution this week included the experience of being in a funk (“…Joe! dude,  got me the music vid for this Post, thanks!)  What I got from (Mike’s Post) was reminder of the feeling of enthusiasm and (even) a little of a ‘sense of wonder’ that we all feel when we start writing a blog and it begins to ‘take off’.  thanks Joe

3) You are grateful  (or should be) that I deleted about 300 words in my first attempt to write this thing, but in that (300 word,  ‘word salad’ ) I made mention of the TToT Book of Secret Rules which is guarded by Lizzi (and her majordom-ettes  Christine and Dyanne they both bring an enthusiasm to their charge more commonly seen in lionesses when the pride is threatened or the dorm mother sitting in the lobby on a Saturday Night)

4)  totally and genuinely grateful for wikipedia (and google in a more broad sense) not only for helping me correctly spell a lot of the …less commonly used words that I seem to be so fond of using, but in offering new concepts and ideas that I was not consciously aware of… in this case  ‘clanging’  which came up on the page when I looked up ‘word salad’  very cool, wikipedia, very cool

5) for reasons not understood, what few ideas that occur to me as I type,  on this cool November Sunday morning, are not frickin staying in my head long enough to get into a form that I can pass off as a Gratitude Item….damn!

6) grateful to the support from co-hosts and Participants alike for my own unique  style  exhibited here each weekend. I appreciate that, not necessarily for the reasons one would think…

7) yo! thank you zoe… for sending in a Comment that allowed me a few blessed moments of coherency as I struggled to reply to your comment (see on yesterday’s Post) (that it was a ‘struggle’ is testimony to the difficulties I am heroically enduring here in front of this blank page, the monitor staring at me like an attractive women that I must walk past in order to find the safety of the buffet table, she seems to expect something from me…no! she is challenging me!  to prove myself deserving of her … response her attention… but the linen covered table, so very near… like being number 7 in a list of 10… my only hope is for a real person to come by… attractive scottianwomen are always drawn to a smooth talking scott

8) made it!  hah!  damn! I don’t particularly enjoy eating standing up while pretending to talk to business associates that are only their because they are afraid of losing business…all except those rogers who stand around in herd-lettes, the dominant roger, not the center of the group… but oriented so that he (yes… in a business conference environment the male rogers are visible to the un-trained eye, the female rogers not… the two most obvious are the male rogers and scottian females. the male rogers, as I just alluded to are the gate keepers to the small herds that they gather in… the scottian females  lol they simply stand there and …and let the rogerianmales….accrete (to not put to fine a point on it)! There is no mistaking the scottian female… the scottian male?  probably already upstairs in his room with conquest #1 lol

9)  I invoke Secret Rule 1.3 and claim relief.

10) that should do it for this week’s TToT… thanks for participating

totally should do this:

Ten Things of Thankful

 

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Join the Ten Things of Thankful community and work with us to nurture an attitude of gratitude. We use the whole weekend to focus on the Good Things in life. Make a list of those present in your life by listing ten things you are thankful for today. Then share the Wonderfulness with others here.

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*sorry, but we really wanted this to be a cool neologism… let us know if you didn’t need to click on the link to find out how far, out-of-clever-line we strayed.

** for those of us of a certain….vintage, the total treat of a class with a film (yeah, sprockety-projector on a pull-down screen)

 

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Second Story Sentence -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 17, 2024 By

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, there is a single rule: a story is to have six sentences; no more and no less.

Prompt word:

PANEL

“Tell me you’re kidding me right now,” the pure light, (the man remembered something, from somewhere, that if all wavelengths, balanced and combined, would result in a perfectly colorless light), seemed to surge, the energy-equivalent of a nod.

“What the fuck, man…;” a single point source of all energy in the universe, (‘the singularity of existence’ a google-search return once called it, but he was drunk at the time, so…), could not, by definition, fluctuate; but there was an undeniable element of the briefest interval of non-coherence in the thing in front of the man, though, to be fair, it passed as quickly as it arose.

“Not saying that a single, dark-haired bearded white guy sitting in judgement ain’t nothin’ more than patriarchy-gone-wild, but a panel of my peers holding the fate of my eternal soul in their hands,” he looked to the double, stepped-row of seated men and women who looked familiar if not rather stern and dour.

Turning his back on jury, the man felt a smile grow, the ultimate light-source before him seemed to fade in benign modulation.

“Then I claim my voir dire rights, and designate the following replacement jurors: Nema, Ola, Bella, Una, Mia and… and that dog I saw once stuck by the side of an abandoned house that time, I will only accept judgment by them.”

Seeing how energy is energy, and sound is, in our present conceit, merely very slow light, the man heard the barking and yelping of welcome as he stepped through the Pearly Gates, some of his jurors running ahead, (just for the joy of running), and two hung back, leaning into his legs, not that additional support was needed, ever again.

 

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 14, 2024 By

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

People are always coming up to us, on the street, peristalsing through school corridors between classes, in the lull of a amatory pre-peak and asking, they ask, “Why are you still writing posts on your personality theory? We get it, and are amazed you don’t fall asleep at the keyboard, all morning-foggy, poster on the wall reflecting the LED glare, (the one showing Fabió flying towards a mountain-top castle where Helen Bonham Carter is semaphoring for help and across the top ‘It Was a Dark and Stormy Knight…)

One word: New Readers

We promise not to invoke Tennessee Williams other than to say, Readers from Mimi, to Cynthia, Denise to Kristi  often write Comments that remind us to keep it simple and stick with the basics. Then, with their implied permission, a quick cut ‘n paste into a blank post and we’re off and runnin’

Last week, Misky wrote such a Comment. So,

“…figuring out which of three, or two or all three, people are if I don’t know them well. How do I anticipate a person’s response to the world if I don’t know them particularly well.”

Perfect set up! (Thanks!)

The beauty part, (as Lou Collins used to say), of the Doctrine is that we don’t need to know them that well. Hell, at all well. The biographical facts of the person in front of us, (or the one reflected in a mirror), are not the most important thing. Knowing the three relationships with the world that is the heart of the Wakefield Doctrine  is…are… whatever.

The question, (at least when we are starting out practicing everyone’s favorite personality theory….theory), is not, ‘Which of the three is this person?’ The best (in the sense of being efficacious to our true goal*) is ‘On the basis of what I observe, see, feel from this person, which of the three makes more sense. Is most consistent with… (Look up the optometrist metaphor (somewhere in the pile of posts). …ok. we couldn’t find it either.

In a nutshell, (no, ceayr… not a word!), consider an eye test. The optometrist turns off the lights, flicks a switch and a bright rectangle appears on the opposite wall. Lowering a very cool, in a totally steampunk sorta way, mechanism with two lenses for you to look through, they say, “Read the first line you can comfortably see.” (one eye goes dark); “Now, is this clearer? [click], How about this?” Back and forth. That is what we do with the three perspectives of the Wakefield Doctrine.

We observe the behavior/dress/appetite, whatever, and look through the lens of: the Outsider (clark) … [click] the Herd Member (roger) [click] Is this clearer, i.e. makes more sense or [click] is this…

…as a wise woman once said, “That’s how it began.”

 

* The tool that the Wakefield Doctrine is, is focused on our being better able to ‘see the world as the other person is experiencing it’. (italics quite deliberate… remind us to discuss personal reality tomorrow.)

 

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Un-reliable Fridae -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 12, 2024 By

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

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

As is incumbent upon us, this being Friday and all, we proffer a story from the picture that we saw. jenne and ceayr watch with evident glee and all the mad bloggers submit their tales to thee. yea celebrate, it’s the ‘hop that all await, the Unicorn Challenge photo prompt.

 

“Who’s there?”

The woman’s voice hesitated, the slightest up-lilt on the interrogative, a child’s invocation for the closet to be as empty as her parents promised. The scenery had, in some tectonic conspiracy, become a threatening vista. The moors’ rolling green looked mostly solid. The gurgling stream ran a parallel track and not, actually, a serpentine course. The mountains on the horizon seemed devoid of jagged cliffs, as clouds gathered like sentient tendrils to the foothills.

Awareness of her surroundings, because she’d stopped, reminded her how much she valued being away from overly-protective family; it was her favorite activity.

“God, please don’t deprive me this time wandering these hills.” As alone as she was, the old woman kept her prayer silent.

Gazing downwards, a slight cold bubbled somewhere between her belt and her heart.

Her new walking sticks had a pleasant …balance; the rawhide straps, lined with suede, held her wrists in a friend’s embrace. The ends of the rods, upon attaining optimal extension, pulled her along. Ever so slightly.

Suddenly, the stick in her left hand slipped backwards. However, as the inspired design and balance dictated, the right side moved forward in counter-balance, saving her from a fall.

The chill within began to crystallize as the temporary imbalance resulted in her taking a step further along the road. The friend’s grasp of the wrist straps tightened. She stepped another step along the road, discovering something worse than falling to the pavement… walking into the fog that waited patiently. Endlessly.

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

October 12, 2024 By

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

This is the Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT). Now in Stereo!! (Well, kinda, there is this post and another over on Blogger which is posted also on the TToT Facebook group Page!)

For us at the Doctrine, the following people. places and things qualify for inclusion in our citations for sources of feeling a sense of gratitude this week.

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop.  Six Pick of the week:  …[a Café Six]  (the) the Wakefield Doctrine

5) the Unicorn Challenge   Read this one!  ‘Afternoon Tea‘   by jenne

6) modern technology. in this case cameras in phones, i.e. Front meadow in October

7) have we mentioned the Wakefield Doctrine? No, not merely in the context of a long-running blog, the stewardship of which we’ve been privileged to provide service, in this citation, as a Grat Item, we note that, as a tool to self-improve oneself, it is without peer. (Slow to take effect? Sure. Worth the effort. Gotta go with a ‘damn straight’)

8) something, something

9) Having a profession (real estate brokerage) that includes free Membership to an impromptu health club (and totally stationary StairMaster) lol A property I have in Norwich CT:

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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