Another PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Lady, doing math already?
Lady: Yep, trying to nail down my learning, a question though?
KD: Go ahead with your question…
L: Well, math is a language, right…So why aren’t we speaking it?
KD: Speaking it?
L: Yep, like using it to solve our problems…
KD: I’m not really sure we’re seeking solutions, let’s get back to your counting by ones.
L: Dude, if we’re not seeking solutions, teach me how to count by the thousands.
A Pups Memory
Morning Contemplative Ones,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Laslo, what you gazing at?
Laslo: I was seeing if I could find my Waterloo Sunset.
KD: Your what?
L: Dude, my Waterloo Sunset, my paradise, my place where I’m at peace.
KD: And you don’t feel you have it here?
L: Not the same Bro, you’re great with food and shelter, but I need my contemplative place.
KD: Oh, a place where you can flow like a dirty ol’ river, huh?
L: Yep, I’ll find my Sunset and I’ll be fine.
An Awakening Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Trixiee, what the heck are you doing?
Trixiee: Preppin’ for War Dude
KD: For War? What War?
T: Dude, there’s a war on Christmas, where’s your camo?
KD: Hold on Trix…I think you’re being snookered
T: There’s no War?
KD: Nope, there is only war when peeps make money off it, during this season, peeps make money out of peace
T: Didn’t know you could do that
KD: Neither did they
Another PM
Morning Perceptive Ones,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Luca
Luca: Hey Bro, wow, there’s a big world out here.
KD: It sure is Buddy, what do you think?
L: I think it’s very complex, difficult to know…
KD: We know what we interface with…
L: You mean we can make the world smaller?
KD: You can make it as big or as small as you like, it’s your perception.
L: Well, shucks, all I must do is adjust my perception?
KD: Yep, that is all.
Morning, A Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Morning Chuck, how’s your luck?
Chuck: I’m pissed…
KD: Angry are you, what gives?
C: I’ve been cheated…
KD: You’ve been what?
C: I would like to file one nice, big, beautiful lawsuit, talking about this and many other things, with tremendous proof.
KD: I’ll bet you would, do you have it?
C: Courts suck…What is all this proof stuff?
KD: Science Chuck, it persists…
A Food PM
Ken-Dogger: Morning Brinsley
Brinsley: Dude, I can barely hold myself up…overdosed on food
KD: You and me both…I earned my name yesterday
B: You dogged that food?
KD: I did Brinsley, Mikster said the magic word…
B: Seconds?
KD: Boy, you know it’s true…It was Turkey coma after that
B: You made me proud bro…
KD: Thanks B
Another PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Jake, good morning.
Jake: Hey Dogger, is this RED?
KD: No, it’s WHITE.
J: But peeps keep telling me it’s RED.
KD: What do your eyes tell you?
J: They tell me it’s WHITE, but peeps keep saying it’s RED.
KD: Who you gonna believe, those you don’t know or your own eyes?
J: Eyes have never failed me…But they keep saying it’s RED.
KD: Welcome to Conviction…Will you hold?
J: That’s the test, isn’t it?
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Ken-Dogger: Hey Shadig, what happened to you?
Shadig: Dude, you know it’s Cyber Monday…
KD: I do Digger, so what about it?
S: Well, Dogger, it’s that time of year where the internet goes crazy with purchases.
KD: And…
S: And, the processing is so fast it twitches the skin
KD: Really?
S: Well, yes…Thought I was hitting send and I actually hit the source.
KD: Hence, the puffiness…
S: You’re right, not sure on the new look though…
KD: Peeps have comb-overs, you have comb-outs.
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Scratch, what’s up?
Scratch: Getting you ready for the day
KD: IKR, interesting thing from yesterday, the couple I played with Sunday came by and thanked me for my tips on the course. He wanted to just say thanks…
S: Wow, appreciation…
KD: IKR, I did think it was pretty cool. You never know your impact on others…
S: Unless they tell you…
KD: So, peeps just gotta let others know what they appreciate?
S: ‘Bout the size of it, Let the appreciation begin then…
Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Hiawatha, will you give me some space, I'm tryin' to drive here.
Hiawatha: I KNOW that, I'm tryin' to learn...
KD: You wanna get out here with these crazies on the road?
H: Yep, I want the mobility expansion.
KD: I CAN teach you to drive, it's the phone texting and putting on mascara while you're driving part that's a little fuzzy.
H: I'll wing it, I've been watching others...
Morning Balancers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Dapper Dan, what up?
Dapper Dan: Dude, it’s Cyber Monday
KD: Oh that, right…Doesn’t seem like it generates the same magic.
DD: IKR, peeps don’t seem to be going crazy.
KD: Well, when a Cyber Day becomes a Cyber Week and then becomes a Cyber Month…
DD: I get your point…Too much of a good thing.
KD: This is why I give ‘balancing’ gifts, we need to stop tipping the scales.
DD: Balance in all things, Bro…It keeps us living.
Another PM
Morning Gratitudinous Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: What’s Up Bart?
Bart: The name is Bartholomew…what’s that stone?
KD: Oh that, Mikster passed ‘em out at dinner, it says GRATITUDE.
B: What does that mean?
KD: Being THANKFUL…But it also means a readiness to show APPRECIATION for and to return KINDNESS.
B: So, the focus is on KINDNESS?
KD: Yep, nice reminder huh?
B: Bro, where do I find more stones?
A Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Morning guys, how's it hangin' this morning?
Guys: We are...
KD: We are what?
Guys: Dude, would you look, we are hangin'...
KD: Mom was up cleaning already wasn't she? Gettin' that Christmas glitter outta here...
Guys: She is, hence the maneuver to get us out of the way
KD: What's up with BillyBob?
Guys: Vacuums get to him...
Morning Scribes,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Yeller, what will today bring?
Yeller: I don’t know about you, but I’m penning a letter.
KD: A letter, when did you learn to write?
Y: I can dictate, Fifi is transcribing.
KD: Okay, okay, okay, tell me about the letter.
Y: It’s to Santa, I’m getting ahead of the rush…there’s less discrimination in the beginning.
KD: Oh, your sins will be forgiven?
Y: Just my naughtiness; my goodness, we embellish that.
A Directional PM
Ken-Dogger: Petie, how you doing this fine morning?
Petie: Well, I've been out walkin', I don't do that much talkin' these days...these days I seem to wander a lot
KD: Hey boy, just remember all who wander are not lost.
P: Dude, but I was, I wandered and I freakin' got lost.
KD: You were in our neighborhood, we didn't you just ask?
P: Dude, you get that I'm male right?
Ken-Dogger: Morning Hughie and Dewie…Dewie, you’re a tad rambunctious this morning.
Dewie: I am? Yes, I am…had to review what rambunctious means for a minute
Hughie: We love playing, it’s our thing…
KD: I can see that, it’s fun to watch you two in the morning
D: One request…
KD: What’s that little Buddy
D: Dogger, could you lay off the veggies in Hughie’s diet…We get playing, she gets excited and well, you see me reeling don’t you?
KD: Pungent isn’t it? I’ll lay off the veggies
A Thanksgiving PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Tom-Tom
Tom-Tom: Quite a spread the Mikster laid out yesterday.
KD: It was, I’m still stuffed…but it was also great conversation with family and friends.
T-T: I hear that.
KD: It’s nice to share laughter around food, brings joy to the stomach.
T-T: It cracked me up when Ken and B.A. started dancing.
KD: It made me think perhaps we don’t get old; we just stop dancing.
T-T: Dude, you gotta keep dancing in your life.
Morning Small Business Saturday Supporters,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Paco, a question?
Paco: Dogger, you always get me little stuff, I want big stuff.
KD: Big stuff?
P: Yes, like cars I can ride in, hair dryers, air conditioners
KD: I get you little stuff because it’s the little things which matter.
P: Like what?
KD: Like giving, and sharing, and appreciation, and caring…
P: Oh that, how can we do that?
KD: Paco, it’s Small Business Saturday, it’s made for all that.
An Uplifting PM
Ken-Dogger: Morning Trixie, you liked getting picked up, don’t you?
Trixie: I do Bro…The world looks different up here
KD: Yes, gives you a whole different perspective on things
T: Dude, I’m hip…Wow, this is mind-blowing, you mean if I change my view, my
perspective might change too?
KD: That’s about the size of it…
T: Dogger Man, keep uplifting me then…I like it
Ken-Dogger: Hey Clarice, why the long face?
Clarice: I'm just standing in a doorway, I'm just trying to make some sense
KD: Make some sense?
C: The bright lights, the big city, ‘bout to drive me out of my mind…I’ve seen Paris
KD: Whoa, put a whole different light on the farm doesn’t it?
C: Sure does, so I’m following the bright lights, but the long face, that’s for recognizing and honoring my past…
KD: That’s right Clarice, threads become fabrics when you let them weave life for ya
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277