I'VE GOT THE STOMP DOWN, PERHAPS I LEARN A NEW STEP

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Ken-Dogger: What?
Mikie: What?
KD: You've got that look, that look of bewilderment
M: Well, my fine gent, just wondering when you're gonna stop gettin' yelled at around the house?
KD: Not sure on that one
M: You don't mind
KD: Mikie, it's our dance...every relationship has a dance
M: Maybe learn a new one besides the Stomp.

WE ALL NEED SOMEONE WE CAN BEND ON

Morning Reality-Facing Friends,

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Ken-Dogger: This should be good, what up CK?
CK: Wha…
KD: The outfit Bro
CK: Get me some steel…
KD: Steel? And the reason?
CK: Need something to bend Bro
KD: You’re bending steel now CK…
CK: If you all can keep bending reality, I can then bend steel.
KD: But you don’t have the strength…
CK: Neither do all of you Bro, neither do all of you.

NO DIGGITY

Morning Pacers,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Lucille, what ya doin’?
Lucille: Hey Dogger, just watching you…
KD: Okay, and what do you see?
L: You’re like a sprinter first thing in the morning.
KD: I’m a morning guy, great energy then.
L: And then it wanes about midday and you nap.
KD: It’s best to understand your cycles and live within ‘em.
L: Mine is sleep, run, lick, and repeat…
KD: And I like the way you work it.

KICKIN' BACK THE COBBLESTONES (Homage to Simon and Garfunkel)

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Jax, what up?
Jax: I said hello lamppost, what ya knowin', I've come to watch your flowers growin'
KD: Well, got rhymes for me?
J: Naw, I'm slowin' down, I'm movin' too fast, I'm gonna make the morning last
KD: Let's go kick some cobblestones
J: Yep, Do-in do do, feelin' groovy
KD: Ba d-d-da da da da, Feelin' groovy

SATISFIED AND STRIVING

Morning,

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Charlie, what ya doing?
Charlie: Trying to figure out if I’m satisfied.
KD: Satisfied?
C: Yep, this dude on the radio tellin’ me he can’t get no satisfaction…
KD: Oh, that’s just a song…
C: Must be something if the dude wrote about it.
KD: Are you at peace, do you have unfulfilled desires?
C: I am at peace, but you know desires abound.
KD: Then you’re good, you’re satisfied and striving…
C: I’ll take that mix.

OVER TROUBLED WATERS

Morning Fair Players and Others,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Pecos
Pecos: I’m ready for today’s clever trick
KD: You’re what?
P: Today’s clever trick, you know how we scam the system.
KD: Oh, you’re seeing ads about ways to get discounts, aren’t you?
P: It just seems everyone wants a way to ‘game an advantage’.
KD: Wouldn’t it be nice if peeps just played fair.
P: Dude, let me see your glasses, they’re looking rosy…
KD: Just a peaceful thought in troubled times.

TASSELS, WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE TASSELS?

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Chase, how's it goin?
Chase: Goin' fine Dude, I'm just running and playing
KD: Chase, it's cute the way your one ear kinda flops up
C: Yeah, pretty slick huh?
KD: It is buddy, where'd you learn that?
C: Remember that vid you were watching with that lady who had tassels and she made them go in all directions?
KD: Chase, you keep on running buddy, let's not worry about that ear...

TOUCHING AND EMBRACING

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Little Suzie…
Little Suzie: I was wondering about this virus
KD: You shouldn’t worry about it, it affects humans mostly
LS: But that’s why I’m worried, Dude, we all need touches and connections, we don’t need more social distancing
KD: Ahh, but you see, adjustments need to be made
LS: I get that, I’m just hoping peeps don’t forget how important it is to touch and embrace
KD: Hopefully, they won’t…We’ll remember it here, count on that.

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Blue, you singing?
Blue: “Think of your fellow man, lend him a helping hand, Put a little love in your heart…”
KD: A little Jackie DeShannon?
B: “Another day goes by, and still the children cry…”
KD: We seem to endure a lot of pain.
B: It’s maddening…
KD: So, you’re gonna sing your way through today?
B: Nope, gonna love my way through, singing you get for free…
KD: Yep, I want the world to know, we won’t let hatred grow…
B: Yep, putting a little love in our hearts.

Morning Peeps

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Ken-Dogger: Hey there Chauncey

Chauncey: What up Bro…

KD: You tell me, what is your bad self doing today?

C: Just read this about celebrating today.

KD: What are we celebrating with a Thumbs Up and a Smile?

C: Women, Life, Freedom, Reading…Stuff we enjoy.

KD: So, this is why the Thumbs Up, but where’s the smile.

C: Dude, you realize what it takes to do this thumb and then you ask for coordination.

KD: Bridge too far?

C: Yep

BEING IN A SAFE PLACE

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Ken-Dogger: (Oh my goodness, look at Jake...All that 'mean face' training with Jill must have tuckered the boy out)
Jake: zzz
KD: (I better learn how to distribute training better...But look at the little guy, he worked himself yesterday until he couldn't do anymore, and now he rests, should I get him up?)
J: zzz

1/2

GETTING UNSTUCK

Morning Mergers and Other Peeps,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Bobo
Bobo: Hey Dogger, some help please.
KD: What’s the deal?
B: Dude, is it over or under…I’m having some issues.
KD: You can do either…
B: That’s what you think, it’s my JOY BELLY.
KD: Your JOY BELLY?
B: Yep, it prevents me going under, and it just lays on the bar when I try to go over. I’m stuck.
KD: You could go around…
B: Wow, imagine that.

Morning Peeps,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Lucky

Lucky: Hey Dogger, I was struck by a comment on that video you were watching.

KD: I hope it didn’t hurt, but go on.

L: YOU…Here’s the thing, that dude said “Our bodies get good at what we repeatedly do.”

KD: That comment got me too…

L: What got me was where he put the locus of control.

KD: You mean, on us?

L: Yep, so I guess it’s really about deciding what we want to do.

KD: And then doing it till we’re good at it.

GOING FOR THE NATURAL LOOK

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Guys
Jake & Jill: (Nodding hello, no words)
KD: What are you two doing?
Jake: I was teaching Jill how to do the bulldog face
KD: Oh, I thought that was a natural look
Jake: Somewhat, enhancements required sometimes
KD: I gotta remember to get these mirrors higher
Jake: Dude, Jill's got it down, on to walking...

Morning Productive Ones,

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Juneau…
Juneau: Hey, what is productivity?
KD: It’s rate of output per unit of input.
J: So, if I keep working faster, I’m more productive?
KD: To a point, most often quickness sacrifices accuracy.
J: Oh, is that why companies see automation as an answer?
KD: Many companies now are just in the profit game,
seemingly external to society.
J: You can invest in people or you can invest in things.
KD: We’re gonna see a lot more robots…

Another PM

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Max
Max: Hey Dude
KD: We got a big day today
M: Ummm, why's that, thought I was just hangin' out
KD: Max, we got sled training today...Never too early to start
M: Dude, LOOK AT ME...Look at all this cuteness, you actually think someone is gonna put me on a sled team?
KD: Well, I'm a purist and you need to be functional
M: My brother, cuteness IS functional

Hey Peeps,

A PM

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Church
Church: Hey Dogger, a question…
KD: And…
C: Am I in Harm’s Way?
KD: Well, not right now…You’re inside, you’re protected.
C: There’s nothing in here, but what about out there?
KD: Out there is pretty dynamic right now, best we stick together when we’re out.
C: Well, when can we branch out?
KD: When the World stops being so cray-cray…
C: When’s that?
KD: Not anytime soon Church, not anytime soon…

IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOTTA LOVE

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Ken-Dogger: Would you look at that?
Sharpie: What?
KD: Well, Sharpie, when you sit like that, you look like you're old and wrinkled
S: I AM young and cuddly...
KD: Know you are, just sayin' about the...
S: These, these are just love handles
KD: Love Handles?
S: Yep, I gotta lot of love and I'm gonna make things right

LIFE'S TEMPO

Morning Rhythm-nators,

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Ken-Dogger: 1,2,3…1,2,3, oh, Hey Bogart, didn't see you there.
Bogart: Just what are you doing?
KD: I’m counting my tempo
B: Your what?
KD: My pace in my motion, still working that golf swing thing.
B: So, there’s a rhythm in golf, you just need to get with it.
KD: Just like in life, we all live by a certain tempo.
B: Do we get to control it?
KD: In some things, important to know which tempos you do control.

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Ken-Dogger: Shhhh, Jiggles is still sleeping
Jiggles: zzzzzzzz
KD: I love watching them sleep, so peaceful and restful, they look so at ease...Nothing like the ball of fire who awakens and rains hell down upon his keepers
J: zzzzzz (but suddenly a smile comes on his face)
KD: You heard me didn't you?
J: (One eye opens (dog sign of acknowledgement) but then closes and sleep continues)
KD: Puppies, they get a hold of you and keep you right where they want you.
J: (smile widens)