DIVERTING ENERGIES
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Pietro, you look a little freaked.
Pietro: Dude, you don’t know the half of it…
KD: What gives?
P: I’m looking for more house plants, I don’t think we have enough.
KD: What do you mean? There are scads here…
P: Well, we’re gonna need a lot.
KD: Why?
P: So much killing now, humans killing each other…just thought since most peeps kill house plants anyway, I might divert the energy.
KD: Let me help you look…
ADJUSTING
Ken-Dogger: Hey Brutus, what up?
Brutus: Can ears express?
KD: Wha?
B: Well, with these masks, I can’t see your whole face. I was just wondering what to focus on.
KD: Not sure about ears expressing, I guess they can, but the movement seems limited.
B: Well then, how do I know you’re kind when you are wearing a mask.
KD: You know it by how I act, you also know it by my eyes.
B: Ah, the eyes, windows to the soul…Guess I’ll have to adjust.
KD: We all are Brutus, we all are.
There ARE still places where learning and love go together
Morning Peeps...you seen Will?
Ken-Dogger: Hey Oscar, you working?
Oscar: No, I was seeing what you were doing.
KD: I was scrolling through the scores of the Div II/III games.
O: Took you a while, there’s a lot of ‘em
KD: Yes, places where players largely play because they love the game.
O: Wow, there are still places where learning and love go together?
KD: Yes, all it takes is will
O: Well, let’s go find it then…
GETTING UNSTUCK
Morning Mellow Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Melo, what’s going on?
Melo: Dude, I just stepped in somethin’, not cool.
KD: Then, why are you winking?
M: I’m not winking Bro, I’m showing frustration.
KD: Oh? What frustrates you now?
M: Dude, I should recognize these pitfalls and adjust, will keep my paws cleaner.
KD: Wow, you can make adjustments?
M: Bro, if you don’t adjust, you get stuck.
KD: Melo, teach me how to make that face.
WHAT DOES get out the vote REALLY MEAN?
Ken-Dogger: Hey Puffer, why the long face?
Puffer: Went down to the polling station to vote, they wouldn't let me.
KD: Why? Didn't have picture ID?
Puffer: No Dude, I couldn't remember my street address...peeps knew me there as I had bit a couple in the past, but no vouching allowed.
KD: Damn, they know how to get out the vote don't they?
Puffer: Yea, but GET OUT to them has a whole different meaning...
CONSERVATION...Some don't see the value.
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Charlemagne, you okay?
Chalemagne: Dude, come on, I’m fine…why you ask?
KD: You’re just up there and not moving.
C: I’m moving, I’m conserving.
KD: Really, you’re going with that?
C: Bro, that’s the trouble with conservation, peeps don’t see it, so they don’t think there is value in it.
KD: It’s just a matter of ensuring something’s left when you need it.
C: Hence, my conserving…
KD: Hence, my understanding.
SOMETIMES, THEY'RE MAN-EATERS, WATCH OUT BOY, WATCH OUT BOY...
Chuckles: Oh here I come, watch out boy I'll chew you up, oh here I come, I'm a man-eater
Ken-Dogger: I wouldn't if I were you (but it does look like you did already), I know what she can do, she's deadly man, and she could really rip your world apart, mind over matter, the beauty is there but a beast is in the heart
Chuckles: The Mikster's not gonna be happy
KD: Not so much...
(Hall & Oates - Maneater)
HEED THE FLOWERS LIFE GIVES YA
Ken-Dogger: A flower Cleo?
Cleo: Yea Boy…I’m bringing you one.
KD: And why is that?
C: Well, I noticed early on, you tended to me, we took long walks, we cuddled…now, not so much.
KD: Well, relationships grow and they change dynamics
C: I want to sing songs again, play again, all the stuff we did when flowers were fresh.
KD: I miss that too…
C: Hence the Flower Bro, heed the Flowers life gives ya…
BUNDLES OF JOY
Ken-Dogger: Hey guys, you...oops, didn't realize you're still sleepin'
I'm just gonna sit here and watch these two bundles of joy, this is peace for me...
BUILDING KON-TIKI
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Cato, again with the questions…
Cato: How do I become a Kiwi?
KD: A piece of fruit, you wanna become a piece of fruit?
C: No Bro…A New Zealander, you know someone who ‘gets’ managed isolation.
KD: Oh, you mean a country who has a plan, who has used their resources to stop the spread, not to politicize it.
C: Yep, a Kiwi…
KD: They’ve beat it twice now, we haven’t even tried once…Can I be a Kiwi too?
C: I’ve started building Kon-Tiki II…
Morning Indigenous Peoples Day Celebrators,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Trixie
Trixie: Peeps are off today, what’s up?
KD: President Biden declared it Indigenous Peoples Day.
KD: Celebrations remind us of our cultural heritages.
T: We need to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ contributions to US culture.
KD: They have one of the highest group rates of Military Service, they honor security.
T: And They value a reverence for life.
KD: Perhaps, we should have more of these days.
PROTECTION AIN'T THE SAME FOR EVERYONE
Ken-Dogger: What do you want Cato?
Cato: Oh snap, I forgot that’s a signal to you…
KD: Well yeah, I worked in schools.
C: Okay, so how’s the robbing going?
KD: Robbing?
C: Well, every time you go into a store, you are masking up…just thought it was a stick up
KD: Oh, no, just masking to protect others…
C: I think Jesse James said the same thing…
KD: That was different…
C: Guess protection isn’t the same to everyone
KD: Apparently not.
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277