TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
OPPOSING FORCES
Ken-Dogger: Uh oh, this doesn’t look good…
Plato: Wha, I was just pondering Chip and Joanna…
KD: From Fixer-Upper, what gives?
P: Well, it’s curious…Chip is the destructor, and Joanna is the builder, odd combo…
KD: I’ll say, Joanna should be with me…
P: Dude, focus…I mean building up and tearing down?
KD: In homes, you often have to tear down to build them back up…
P: In life too bro, in life too…Opposing forces may be necessary to thrive
REMEMBERING DIXIEE
Morning Loving Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Petie
Petie: How you doing? I know yesterday was rough letting Dixiee go.
KD: You don’t know, you think you’re ready, but you’re not.
P: That dog loved you LOTS.
KD: She did, stole my heart.
P: You two were inseparable, what you gonna do now?
KD: I’m going to remember, going to laugh, and I’m gonna find stuff to appreciate.
P: Honor and Remember…
KD: She has a hallowed place…
SUSTAINING BALANCE
Ken-Dogger: Max, you’re looking stressed this morn…
Max: Bro, I’m hip…this balance thing has me coo coo for cocoa puffs
KD: You get this balance thing down and you’ll be set for life…
M: How so?
KD: When you find your balance point, then you know when you’re too far left or too far right
M: And if you go too far?
KD: You fall off…You can be a lever or a fulcrum
M: I’m choosing a fulcrum, I want to be the point at which balance is sustained
KD: Good choice
I GOTTA BE ME, I GOTTA BE ME, WHAT ELSE CAN I BE...
Morning Hip Nauts,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rocco, what is this?
Rocco: What? Oh, my gym outfit.
KD: That would be a Yes…
R: Bro, you have your stuff, I have mine.
KD: Under Armor?
R: No, Under Rocco, why do you ask?
KD: Rocco, no I meant the brand…
R: Oh, sorry, still learning the hip stuff
KD: If you’re gonna dress hip, you gotta be hip.
R: Right On, Bro, right on…
PEACE...Ya gotta work at it
Morning Peaceniks,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Nelli, you ready for the day?
Nelli: Ah, I think so…what kind of day we gonna have?
KD: Let’s make it a peaceful one…
N: Seems a lot of others now don’t want a peaceful one.
KD: There are bad actors in the world, always have been, always will be.
N: What we gonna do?
KD: We’re gonna live our life in peace, we’re gonna seek peace in each interaction. It’s gotta start somewhere.
N: PEACE…Ya gotta work at it.
TICKLING BELLIES
Ken-Dogger: Hey Suzie, someone's having fun today...
Suzie: I'm runnin' my man...
KD: Yep, when I was a kid, it was great fun, stretching and running fast, those were the days...
S: I know right, love to run fast...
KD: But I gotta ask, why the big smile?
S: Dude, when I run, these blades of grass tickle my belly...it gets me goin'
KD: I'll just bet it does buddy, guess we should be glad you're not a dude...don't ask
ENLARGE SELF-PRESERVATION
Ken-Dogger: Morning Champ, what up dog?
Champ: I’m flustrated…
KD: The word is frustrated, but do go ahead…
C: Well, this virus, I’m trying to see if I need a mask.
KD: I’m told not all will, but I’m not sure they even make them for you guys.
C: Aren’t we all worth saving?
KD: We all are…In a panic, most just self-preserve.
C: Perhaps, we need to enlarge the concept of self-preservation…
KD: Puppies, leading the way to humanity’s salvation.
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Bugsy, what up?
Bugsy: Waiting on the Sun to rise…
KD: It will come, you fearing it?
B: Nope, just trying to ensure we’ll still dealing with same expectations.
KD: IKR, the world has been topsy-turvy lately.
B: There isn’t enough happiness, peeps seem too focused on ‘stuff’.
KD: So, when the Sun also rises, we can find long-term happiness (LTH) there?
B: Being at peace with the natural world, that’s LTH.
KD: Move over, let’s wait together…
HANGING ON OR HANGING OVER?
Ken-Dogger: He Sixto, you're looking chipper this morning
Sixto: Well, shucks, thanks Bro...I try
KD: You're lookin' pretty cute there with your paws hangin' over.
S: You see that, you see that right there, you don't get it...
KD: 'Cuse me, what don't I get?
S: You say I'm hangin' over, I'm thinkin' I'm hangin' on...
KD: Sixto, I see the difference
S: Dogger Man, it's always a question of balance
Natural World PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Pedro, you’re lookin’ a little freaked.
Pedro: Dude, I thought I just saw a butterfly.
KD: Can’t be, it’s not time yet.
P: Well, just when is it time, my perspective on stuff is a tad off right now?
KD: It’s coming up, in a few weeks, you’ll see.
P: I’m hoping so…like to keep the natural world as it is, no more destruction.
KD: I think we’d all like to keep the natural world intact, let’s pray it does.
P: Amen, Dogger, amen.
TOGETHER...TOGETHER, BABY
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Ripken, you strikin' a pose?
Ripken: Naw, I was tryin' something
KD: What buddy?
R: Well you saw me sitting here, then miraculously, my front legs prop me up...
KD: It's what you do to stand up Ripken...
R: Dude, I get that...
KD: Well, what, pray tell, is the problem...
R: You see my back legs, how do I get 'em to work with the front?
KD: In due time bro, in due time...
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Someone is looking tired this morning…
Mr. Peepers: Dude, this learning/training stuff is hard work.
KD: Well, Peepers, it is, you ready?
MP: Yep, we’re doing fire drill training today, I love that shake, rattle and roll.
KD: Boy, it’s stop, drop and roll, don’t you remember?
MP: Dogger, maybe a tad easier on the Bill Haley and the Comets music during training.
KD: Got it, so go ahead, show me your stuff…
MP: Shake, rattle and roll, shake, rattle and roll
A Boy's Dream, growing up to be a Big Cocker
Ken-Dogger: Morning Tate, what are you doing?
Tate: Escaping, it’s a rat race down here.
KD: You mean with the other little Cockers runnin’ around?
T: Yep, it’s me against the World…
KD: It would appear that way, you may not fully understand the world yet
T: I’m just trying to grow up to be a Big Cocker…
KD: Aren’t we all bro, aren’t we all…
Getting to know you...
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Yeller, you’re happy…
Yeller: Bro, I am, love our new place.
KD: Mikster and I do too, has met our dreams.
Y: You guys took a risk, you didn’t know anyone.
KD: We know each other, that makes us stronger.
Y: So what is it about here?
KD: We came for the land and the travel, but the real beauty has been getting to know the peeps here.
Y: They are friendly, why is that?
KD: We just got to know them, seems that is all it takes.
LOVE, it's CELLULAR
Top of the Late Morning to you Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Bella, don’t look at me like that?
Bella: Dude, I’m worried.
KD: Don’t you think we all are?
B: I do, that’s why I’M worried too…What we gonna do?
KD: We are going to focus on those around us, our personal spheres of influence.
B: So we can influence ‘em more?
KD: Nope, so we can love ‘em more…building it one human cell at a time.
B: Wow, LOVE, it’s cellular.
FOCUS ON THE LOVE
Ken-Dogger: Hey Snoop, what ya doing?
Snoop: I was practicing my kissin' on Bella.
KD: Dude, a little restraint, you're not eatin' her
S: I was just practicing
KD: Snoop, just a little tongue, that's what I said...
S: Well, I got to laying down a rap, and I got carried away...
KD: Snoop Dogg, ease up on the character and focus on the love
S: I can do that...
LIKE ATTENTIVE DOGS
Ken-Dogger: Petie, you’re looking attentive this morning…
Petie: I’m ensuring all the ingredients go into my food
KD: Watching me like a hawk
P: I’ve found via extensive puppy research and our support network, that the more attentive I am, the more I learn…
KD: Well, damn, great insight, could you package that for America’s teachers?
P: You want them treating kids like dogs?
KD: Like attentive dogs, like attentive dogs…
OVERCOMING
Morning Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Chauncey
Chauncey: Hey Dude, what’s up?
KD: Got my 2nd shot, I might be normal soon.
C: Really, You normal? Please…
KD: What do you think of these confirmation hearings?
C: Seems peeps are having trouble with women of color.
KD: Yes, seems color is trumping competence…
C: Until the philosophy that holds one man superior and another inferior, is finally discredited and abandoned…
KD: We’ve got to get past this…
C: We will…
Messin' with PUPPYHOOD
Ken-Dogger: Hey Sarge, let’s get to it.
Sarge: Training again? Can’t we take a break?
KD: Not today, we got a lot pressing now.
S: Ukraine?
KD: That’s one, but there are many issues we need to tackle.
S: But I’m still young, too young and cute to be throttled.
KD: I think a lot of us are going to grow up quickly over the next few weeks.
S: These things are screwing up my puppyhood.
KD: Yours and many others Sarge.
A Sydnee PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Giorgio
Giorgio: Another Birthday?
KD: Yep, it’s Sydnee’s today…We’ve had a week.
G: I like that our girls have their birthdays close together.
KD: I do too actually, keeps me in giving mood.
G: It takes special events to get you into a giving mood?
KD: Sometimes, but event dates do jar the mood-o-meter.
G: Well, keep giving, it’s the least you can do, and the girls appreciate the gifts.
KD: I hear that, and I know they do…HB2U Syd, ENJOY.
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017