SEEING WHAT WORKS
Ken-Dogger: Morning Salt N Pepa, how goes it?
Salt N Pepa: Dude, it’s a Stormy Monday.
KD: Yes, and Tuesday’s gonna be just as bad, and The Eagle may not fly on Friday.
SNP: Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy on me.
KD: Wha…You’re a Blues Singer now?
SNP: Dude, this weather, this pandemic, we’re all tryin’ on new roles.
KD: Yes, we are, and finding a role that works.
SNP: Yes, I’m tryin’ to find some peace to keep it home with me.
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Dinky, what ‘cha doing?
Dinky: Looking for Answers…
KD: I see you have books open, what are you seeking?
D: Trying to see if Peeps can learn.
KD: Well, of course they can, how would we progress if we didn’t learn?
D: Are we progressing?
KD: I see your point…We need to keep setting conditions.
D: We’ve set conditions, Peeps aren’t living to expectations.
KD: It’s a long, long road with many a winding turn…
D: And it seems to be leading us nowhere.
YOU GOTTA COME TO THE PLATE & BAT
Ken-Dogger: Hey Satchel, I see you got a baseball...
Satchel: Yep, it's the season, I know how much you love it
KD: I do Boy, it's the strategy, it's the never say never, it's the excitement of knowing you might be down, but never out...
S: Wow, interesting, are all games like that?
KD: Not all, but baseball teaches life...most team sports do
S: Dude, glad I'm on your team...
KD: I am too Boy, let's do this thing called life
S: Okay, batter up...
YOU ASK ME HOW HE KNOWS HE KNOWS
Ken-Dogger: I know Tito, creeps me out too.
Tito: Why, just why?
KD: Come on, humor the Mrs., She wanted you to enjoy today.
T: But creeping me out with this…This is Easter?
KD: No, this is commercialized Easter. All we got since we can’t come together and worship.
T: So what.
KD: Well, peeps might ask how you think God knows our devotion if we don’t come together
T: He knows, he knows it’s within our hearts.
IN SEARCH OF CLOSER MISSES
Morning Close Missers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Duffer, you look tired?
Duffer: KD, this driving is taxing.
KD: IKR, and I’m out here trying to hit a hole.
D: It looks easy on TV, why are you struggling?
KD: Well, those Pros on TV don’t show you their struggles.
D: They miss putts just like you do consistently.
KD: Steady…But their misses are closer.
D: So that’s what practice does, gives us closer misses.
KD: Sometimes Duffer, that’s all you get.
DOING THE SAFETY DANCE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Brucie and Juicy Lucy, what’s up Brucie?
Brucie: I’m laying something on Juicy here…
KD: Already this morning?
B: Dude, get your mind out of the gutter, I was talking about safety
KD: Oh, do tell
B: I was reminding her about where it’s safe to place her tongue…
Lucy: Yea, so butt out…We’re doing the safety dance
B: Trouble is until you can guarantee more are safe, we aren’t traveling far.
KD: Neither am I Brucie, neither am I.
STANDING TALL, FOR SELF AND OTHERS
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Cato, what are you doing?
Cato: Standing tall Dude…
KD: Yes, but why?
C: I see you standing at the crossroads Bro, not knowing which path to follow.
KD: I know which path, it’s the one which methodically gets us through.
C: So now you know why I’m standing, I’ll stand by you.
KD: And I’ll stand by you, won’t let nobody hurt you.
C: That’s the spirit, even in our darkest hour, Standing Tall…
Ken-Dogger: Morning Kit, it was bound to happen.
Kit: I knew it when that sewing machine came out, what are you getting?
KD: Mikster is making me CV protection.
K: Am I to assume that’s what this is?
KD: Not exactly, she’s following a pattern for my stuff
K: I like it when peeps follow patterns, it gives predictability.
KD: True Kit, and it reminds us of order in our world.
K: We need order, now most particularly
KD: Another reason to bring back Home Ec, bringing order to chaos.
PEACEFULLY COEXISTING...IF WE LET IT.
Morning FOK (Friends of Ken)
Ken-Dogger: Hey Yeller, what’s up?
Yeller: Dude, new season…
Basketball is done.
KD: No, we still got the Pros, oh, I see your point.
Y: Time to move on to Summer Fun…
KD: No gloves?
Y: We’re goin’ Old School Bro…
KD: Baseball is Life Yeller, the Game teaches so much.
Y: Does it teach Peaceful Coexistence because we need that?
KD: It will if we let it, but you gotta let it.
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277