Morning Chillers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Beauregard, what’s up with the shades…
Beauregard: I’m chillin’…
KD: You’re chillin? With all this craziness going on around you, you’re chillin’?
B: Yep, some craziness you cannot change, some you just gotta let go…
KD: Dude, I’m hip…some things you just gotta let go…
B: Hence the shades and the ‘tude…
KD: Mind if I chill with ya?
B: Always room for more chill Bro, always room…
Morning, a stirring PM
Morning Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Chauncey, what’s on?
Chauncey: YouTube Bro, learning stuff.
KD: Learning, that’s novel, what about?
C: Well, I keep hearing stories about controversy
KD: Yes, lot of strife now…
C: But the stories don’t ever get resolved, so I was looking on YouTube Cooking Channel.
KD: Why cooking Chauncey?
C: Seems like all peeps are doing is stirring the pot, thought I’d try it.
WE STILL HAVEN'T TURNED IT AROUND
Another PM
Ken-Dogger: Morning Theodore, that’s a look…
Theodore: Hey Bro, just wondering about the climate.
KD: What exactly?
T: Well, we don’t seem to want to do anything about it.
KD: Mostly due to costs, the elite like their money.
T: Do they think they will avoid the devastation?
KD: I think so, mostly because they’ve avoided other devastation.
T: Will we turn things around?
KD: When ALL of us mean more than ANY of us, only then.
Pups memory
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Dutch, you’re looking down.
Dutch: I am Bro, it’s Monica…
KD: Oh, you mean Lewinsky, she’s back at it.
D: Must be a down news day, the scandal returns after 23 years.
KD: So, they made a show about the affair, and it’s Breaking News.
D: When you let scandal define you, it’s all you’ve got.
KD: Truly USA right there, your history might suck, but you can still make money off it.
D: Morals only matter when profit no longer works.
Morning Attitudinals,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Chief, you ready?
Chief: Dogger, I was born ready…
KD: Looks like it, I mean…We got work again
C: After another break, you’re going back?
KD: I am, got a better ‘tude this year.
C: Why is that?
KD: I got out of my own way, I found my role.
C: Bro, I spend all day playin’ with my rolls.
KD: Not the same…It’s about blending.
C: Dogger, we need to be more about blending and mending.
Another PM
Ken-Dogger: Donk, what are you doing?
Donk: Working on my listening…
KD: Your what?
D: My listening, it’s a skill you know…
KD: I’m hip, good for you.
D: Well, Plutarch wrote “Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
KD: Right you are Donk
D: And when you listen well, you know what you hear?
KD: You hear CHARACTER Donk, CHARACTER…
Taking my Big Sister back to Vegas this AM, here's a PM
Morning Atypical Learners, and that's all of you...
Ken-Dogger: Morning Roscoe
Roscoe: I’m not getting this
KD: Getting what little Buddy?
R: This whole runnin’ and fetchin’, I’m too random. I try, but there are steps involved.
KD: You are learning atypically, but you’re still learning.
R: It’s frustrating Bro, so, as an atypical learner, I can still learn?
KD: If you want to Roscoe, but you gotta want to learn.
Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Roscoe, would you leave Lucy alone…
Roscoe: I’m just playin’.
KD: Lucy might not think you’re playing…
Lucy: Yes, so not cool…
R: What do you mean, it’s just a tail.
L: It’s my tail, and I didn’t invite you…
KD: Yes, she didn’t invite you…
R: Okay, so where do I find the invitational tail?
KD: My boy, that’s a whole other lesson.
PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Milo, what ARE you doing?
Milo: Chillin’ and reading…
KD: With all the stuff going on in the world, you’re chillin’?
M: Yep…
KD: Don’t you think you ought to be more concerned with what is going on?
M: Dude, can’t do nothing about it, so I’m working on personal growth.
KD: So what are you reading?
M: Walden, think I need to be more self-reliant.
KD: May I offer a book on Community, we need bonding more…
M: That’s step two bro, gotta ensure I’m together first.
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Chet
Chet: Hey Bro, nice to see you home
KD: You too Chet…Had a great week
C: So, what’d you do?
KD: A lot of golfin’, a lot of eatin’, and a lot of laughin’
C: Whoa, the Big 3…and with peeps you haven’t seen in 50-some years
KD: Turns out we have a common bond after all these years
C: What’s that?
KD: Friendship…it works
Still golfing, a PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Faith, you’re looking rather patriotic today.
Faith: Why, because I carry a flag?
KD: Well, yeah, so what are you doing?
F: Gonna root for America’s team today, they’re playing soccer.
KD: Cool, let’s watch…
F: (Cheering) SA…SA…SA….SA
KD: What are you doing, when you cheer for America it’s USA…USA.
F: Dude, it’s SA now, we haven’t been United for quite some time.
Pups Memory
Morning Pups Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Paulie
Paulie: Dude, what are you doing, I’m on vacay.
KD: Well, we got home, thought I’d say HI…
P: Did you check with me?
KD: Well, no…
P: Did I say vacay was over?
KD: Well, no…
P: Go, just go…I’m still sunnin’ and funnin’
KD: Sheesh, OKAY…See ya Sunday.
Working today a Pups Memory for ya
Ken-Dogger: Morning Lady
Lady: Hey, I’m just sitting here crunching.
KD: Crunching?
L: Yes, you know, feeling the leaves under me, knowing the texture…just getting’ to know these leaves
KD: Ah, why?
L: Well, I read Americans lack empathy…being tender-hearted and kind-hearted, so I’m practicing my feeling skills.
KD: Ah, touch…you’re reaching out, but Lady, not the same touching.
L: Wow, hard stuff to know…
KD: Apparently, it’s even harder to do.
Pups Memory
Morning Heroes,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Shakira, what’s up
Shakira: Submarines
KD: You hungry?
S: No Bro, just thinking about the hubbub between nations over subs.
KD: Oh, right, France and all…
S: Macron is upset his WAR business got stiffed.
KD: And it looks like America’s WAR business won.
S: Why do we have low energy for Saving, yet high energy for the KILL.
KD: The Killing is easy, Shakira, we always do the easy part first.
S: Ah, there’s a problem with your logic.
Morning Walkers and Talkers,
Ken-Dogger: What’cha doing Teacup?
Teacup: I’m wondering why you build me up Buttercup
KD: Huh?
T: Oh darn, thought we were doing rhymes this morning, so what’s up?
KD: Well, I’ve been out walking, I don’t do that much talking these days…
T: And what would you talk about?
KD: IDK, things I forgot to do, things I had a chance to do…
T: So, LIFE, you want to talk about LIFE?
KD: It’s a start…
PM #pups4peace
Roscoe: Ev'rytime you kiss me, I'm still not certain that you love me, Ev'ry time you hold me, I'm still not certain that you care
Bear: Dude, I'm a cub...
Roscoe: Though you keep on saying, You really, really, really love me, Do you speak the same words to someone else when I'm not there
Bear: Dude, I'm a cub...
Roscoe: Suspicion torments my heart, Suspicion keeps us apart, Suspicion why torture me
Bear: I'm not getting thru...
(Homage to Terry Stafford - Suspicion)
Morning Deciders,
Ken-Dogger: What up Meat
Meat: Well, I happened upon the word Host and then the word Hostess.
KD: And?
M: A Host can be a noun or a verb, but a Hostess is just a Noun.
KD: I get it, a Hostess is a Person, not a thing nor a place
M: While a Host may not be a Person, it could just be acted upon.
KD: Wow…
M: We should let the Women be gracious Hostesses.
KD: And remain their own deciders.
Morning Grateful Ones,
Ken-Dogger: What up Brigette?
Brigette: What’s that on your pedestal?
KD: It’s my Gratitude Rock
B: A Gratitude Rock? Well, I never…
KD: Sometimes, you need reminders of Thankfulness
B: You need a reminder to be thankful?
KD: Today, we need good prompts.
B: Could you make me a Gratitude Collar?
KD: Sure…
B: Let’s pass the message far around.
Pups Memory
Morning Body Listeners,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rolph, morning.
Rolph: And Morning to you Bro, what’s up?
KD: I struggled some on the bike yesterday, had no legs.
R: Well, they’re right there, why didn’t you take ‘em?
KD: Not that, just had no steam.
R: Puckered out early hey?
KD: Some days are like that, you gotta listen to your body.
R: I do, mine says sleep often.
KD: It surely does, Let’s roll with it.
R: Huh, what was that? I was listening, then I nodded.
Morning
Ken-Dogger: Morning Brutus, what up?
Brutus: Dude, all this acrimony…
KD: You mean the resentment, the enmity, the causticity, and the nastiness?
B: Yep, that’s what I mean
KD: Well, it seems to me to have a life of its own
B: What?
KD: We seem to forget what the fight is about; we just seem to fight…
B: Is that how we’re going to live our life?
KD: Brutus, not in this house…We’re achieving mellowness here
B: I’m trending mellow yellow too Bro…
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277