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
Pleasure Tools, the best kind...
Morning Seekers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Melo what’s up?
Melo: They call me Melo Yellow, quite rightly
KD: A little Donovan this morning…
M: Blasting out my pipes yo…And what is an Electrical Banana?
KD: It blasts out pipes too…
M: Wha?
KD: Apparently, this was a reference for a vibrator.
M: A what?
KD: A pleasure tool…
M: I thought I was a pleasure tool.
KD: There are many…
WHEN WE WERE GOING THRU SOME STUFF...
Ken-Dogger: Morning Cleo, all ready for Independence Day?
Cleo: You know it Bro, the parade, the picnic, the celebrations, the fireworks…
KD: But they have all been cancelled.
C: Wha? You mean peeps can’t get together?
KD: Yep, seems Americans don’t like following rules anymore.
C: Oh, the Freedom without Responsibility Movement continues…
KD: Yes it does, maybe we should have called this INTERDEPENDENCE DAY.
Morning Peeps,
Huggin' and Strokin'...
In times like we are now experiencing daily in America, we all just need a hug and some strokin'...
I'm strokin' to the right, I'm strokin' to the left, I'm strokin' to the one I love the best...
I'm strokin'...
Sometimes #pups4peace are also #minhowlkinmoments
Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your strength...I'll help you carry on.
Well, we all need someone we can lean on, and if you want it babe, well you can lean on me...
NEIGHBORHOODS
Ken-Dogger: Morning Max, you ready for a walk?
Max: Yes Dogger, see my neighborhood…
KD: It’s nice to check up on your neighbors, keep track of your surroundings.
M: Yep, and a lot more peeps home now.
KD: We’re retreating to safe spaces and places, our neighborhoods.
M: Will you all try this reopening thing again?
KD: Most definitely, but perhaps we’ll get it right when we treat everywhere as our neighborhood.
M: That’s cool, won’t you be my neighbor…
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DO IN FRONT OF 'EM, THEY'RE WATCHING
"Dude, stop it, I'm your sister..."
"I know that, I was using you as a test strip..."
"A Test Strip?"
"Yes, Dad was watching this channel, por-something I think, and this dude had this exact signature move...He said, let's test this and strip...
I was just shortenin' the process..."
Morning Interdependent Ones,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Kevin, strike a pose.
Kevin: Just stop, you know what I’m doing.
KD: I think I do, fill me in.
K: IWaiting for my sustenance.
KD: Oh, you depend on me for sustenance, don’t you?
K: I do, we need each other to make it.
KD: When I help you live, it helps me live, from the joy.
K: Not sure why helping joy doesn’t fill the world.
KD: Peeps think they can do it alone Kevin.
K: The world is nothing if it is not interdependent.
Morning Peeps,
SHARING FEELINGS
Ken-Dogger: Butkus, get in here…
Butkus: (he just looks over…)
KD: Come on Boy, get out of the storm.
B: (Looks my way and starts walking inside, gets to house)
KD: Let me get you dry, what were you doing just sitting there?
B: Feeling HUMAN…
KD: Huh…
B: You guys are in a storm, and you don’t know when it will let up…So I was seeing how it felt to stay wet.
KD: Wetness reigns…
Still wondering
Dharma: Hey Bro, just waiting for you to get up.
Ken-Dogger: Whoa, you been up for a while?
D: Yes, I’m been pondering…
KD: Pondering? Do tell…
D: This whole black and white thing…what gives?
KD: Seems it easier to hurt than to help, peeps see differences as weaknesses.
D: So much potential, it’s just sad…
KD: It takes messages of hope and action…nothing less.
D: Let’s see if you guys are up to it.
Morning
Ken-Dogger: What’s up Napoleon?
Napoleon: Did you hear about that 200-foot section of Pictured Rocks Cliff falling into Lake Superior?
KD: Not until now…Cliffs are sandstone, they are always eroding, this stuff happens
N: It is getting damn hard to know what natural occurrence is anymore.
KD: We are going to need to figure it out.
N: You humans have great problem-solving skills.
KD: If solving problems is what you are after…
N: That is what we need to figure out.
Ma: "Brutus, stop it, stop it right now..."
Brutus: "Stop what?"
Ma: "You know what, that shit-eatin' grin, REALLY?"
Brutus: "Ma, just call me the Joker, I had it made permanent..."
Ma: "But how will I know when you're upset?"
Brutus: "You'll know, believe me, you'll know..."
Morning Supporting Supporters,
Ken-Dogger: That’s right Checkoff, you’re getting it.
Checkoff: And this is how I’m supposed to get around?
KD: Well, that and running.
C: I’ll learn how to run too, that’s cool…and I’ll get there.
KD: Wow, you’re pretty stoked this AM, what gives?
C: Support…
KD: Tell me more…
C: When you’re supported, you can take more risks and you can grow.
KD: Sounds like we need to pass this on to others…
C: When peeps start to look, they will see…
The start organizing
Ma: "Come on little buddy, come on, give it a go one more time..."
Buddy: "Nah..."
Ma: "Aww, come on, you can do it..."
Buddy: " I KNOW I can do it, what I also know is you all are gonna sit there and watch me slip and slide all over this linoleum floor and you'll laugh and laugh and laugh, well, I say ENOUGH..."
Ma: "Sheesh, the puppy is learning..."
Buddy: "YES, I am, and I'm moving on to organizing..."
FEAR NOT THE RAINBOW
Ken-Dogger: Hey Clarence
Clarence: Hey KD, I was thinking, dogs come in many colors
KD: Yes, they do…why do you ask?
C: Well, I see peeps loving black dogs, and brown dogs, and white dogs, and spotted dogs.
KD: That’s right they’re all dogs…and we love ‘em all.
C: Well, I see peeps come in all sorts of different colors too…
KD: Oh, got it…
A SERIES OF ADJUSTMENTS
Morning Life Cyclers,
Lahtay: Hey Dogger, what’s a cycle?
Ken-Dogger: You mean to ride?
L: Naw, you were talking the other day about completing your first cycle.
KD: Oh yes, it’s a series of events regularly completed in the same order, like months of the year.
L: So, you’re figuring out what the year gives you?
KD: Yep, what we can grow and what we can discard.
L: Adjustments?
KD: The true ongoing cycle, life is a series of adjustments.
DARN CUTE EARS, I might add
Morning Healers and Perspective-takers,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Terry, What?
Terry: Dude, this sittin’ around, what is becoming of you?
KD: I’m doing some healing and something else.
T: All ears, they’re darn cute ears I might add, but all ears Bro…
KD: Doing some perspective-taking on my training.
T: Like being injury-free?
KD: Impossible standard, but assessing risks better is not.
T: Worthy goal Bro, worthy goal…
KD: Small steps Terry, small steps...
WWJD...Providing Comfort is a CHOICE
"Hey, Clyde.."
"You know Bowser, sometimes you're more than a brother, sometimes you're my pillow..."
"Clyde, I'll always be your bro, and your comfort when you need it, it's what Jesus would
have me do..."
"Bowser, you know it dude...providing comfort is a choice"
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bruno, why the sad look?
Bruno: Dude, I am tired, no, very tired of hunkering down.
KD: Me too, we’re trying to go through phases but peeps aren’t listening.
B: It’s that great American spirit of rugged individualism…
KD: But getting over this pandemic will take unity, not individualism.
B: We’re going to be hunkered down longer aren’t we?
KD: Yep, but some peeps will have great tans in those ventilators won’t they?
B: Even near death, peeps value looks over life.
Librarying...
Morning
#pups4peace
Theo: Dude, what can I get into today?
Ken-Dogger: What do you seek?
T: Adventure Bro, I gotta explore
KD: There are all sorts of adventures, can you tell me more about what type of activity?
T: Well, I’m not sure, I wanna run and jump and climb and run some more.
KD: Sounds like we need to focus.
T: That would be good, let’s go focus.
KD: How ‘bout we go to a Library, an adventure to find adventures.
T: Let’s go, let the Library adventures begin.
SOMETIMES, THE TRAIL IS OBVIOUS
Officer: "Ma'am, is this your crew?
Ma'am: "Why yes they are sir, why do you ask?"
Officer: "Ma'am, it seems there was a ruckus down at Kelly's Tap Room, and your pups were seen there..."
Ma'am: "See for yourself..."
Officer: "How 'bout I talk with the 2nd from the right..."
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