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
A KUNG FU MAO PM
Ken-Dogger: Uhh, who are you?
Mao: I’m Mao, what up bro?
KD: Where are my pups?
M: Dude, I sent them on holiday, but I’m here…Working on my manifesto
KD: Really…
M: Yep, tired of all this racism, I’m white, black and Asian…I got this
KD: It does need to be wiped out
M: You better tell these racists they don’t want to see Kung Fu Mao…
KD: I’m hip…
Morning Peeps,
Morning Loving Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Smaltz
Smaltz: Hey Dogger, you okay? I got a heart for ya.
KD: Aww, that’s sweet, you see me hurting from the shot don’t you?
S: Yep, sending love to heal the pain…
KD: This is good pain, it’s healing pain…
S: Wha??? Are you telling me love hurts?
KD: Well, yes, I guess I am…There are times when have to go through pain to get to love.
S: These are one of those times…
REMEMBERING KOBE
Scratch: Hey Dogger Man, how you doing?
Ken-Dogger: I’m sad about Kobe and the other souls lost
S: It was a real blow to the Sports World, it seemed he was finding other outlets for his talents
KD: I think that’s true, it was a huge loss
S: How do you make sense of it?
KD: You don’t, you just hope you can honor their legacy and carry on the work…
S: For Goodness and Growth…
KD: Those forces are always there, you just have to harness them…
Ken-Dogger: Hey Teddie, I’m still not believin’.
Teddie: Believin’ what? Oh, the Field Goal…
KD: Yes, the FG…I just can’t.
T: What was LaFleur thinking? You have an MVP QB and you don’t give him a chance.
KD: I will never understand…
T: Guess the Coach felt like he had enough time to score again.
KD: This is the trouble, we’re running out of time in many areas now.
T: We always seem like we have more time, until it runs out.
KD: It’s the Human Story, we keep running out of time…
Pups Memory
Morning Free Lovers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bolt, you ready?
Bolt: Ready for what? I’m always ready…
KD: It’s back to work for me, must make up for absence.
B: Oh, you owe something?
KD: Well, yes, since I’m bartering for Golf, I owe them time for my Golf.
B: Interesting, should I be bartering my love?
KD: You mean so you can get love in return? It doesn’t work that way…
B: Okay, I’ll continue giving love for free…
KD: Free Love, I can get behind that.
PUPS, they teach us a lot...
Ken-Dogger: Hey guys, you cuddling this morning?
Bob: Yep, we heard the shutdown's over...
KD: It is, for 3 weeks anyway, so why the concern?
Tom: Well, you know after a stressor, people want relief, and they get all happy, but everyone doesn't heal at the same rate
KD: Dude, I'm hip...
Bob: So we just thought we'd hug, maybe others will hug, and then others, and then maybe the pain goes away...
KD: You guys teach us peeps a lot
REMEMBERING WHAT GROUP WE ARE IN
Morning 🌄 HUMANS,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Petra
Petra: Hey Dogger, you wanna rub me?
KD: Huh?
P: just thought you'd like something soft rather than this harsh antagonism.
KD: Appreciate it Petra, I need to remember softness when things are harsh.
P: When is this harshness stopping?
KD: When we all realize the group we are in.
P: What's that?
KD: HUMANITY, Petra, HUMANITY ...
Morning Attitudinals,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Pugsley, what up?
Pugsley: I’m down
KD: You’re down with what?
P: Life bro, I’m waiting for it to get easier.
KD: And?
P: I’m still waiting…
KD: You gonna be sad until then:?
P: Yep
KD: How ‘bout, we look at it a little differently. How ‘bout we decide to be Happy, then life doesn't seem so hard.
P: It’s attitudinal?
KD: Yep, like most everything else…
Again with the Perspective thing
Ken-Dogger: Lilly, what ARE you doing?
Lilly: Helping myself…
KD: Really? You think you’re helping, you might hurt yourself doing that.
L: Well, if I hurt myself I could play the victim part…
KD: It looks like to me you’re more the perpetrator…
L: Perp to you, victim to me…guess it depends on your perspective
KD: Yep, guess it does…
Another PM
Morning Fixin' the Mix Nauts,
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Mr. Jinx
Mr. Jinz: Hey Dogger, what’s a scapegoat?
KD: It is someone who is blamed for the faults of others, why do you ask?
MJ: Papers are already saying Biden is now the scapegoat.
KD: Funny how that works huh?
MJ: Yep, almost as if we pin more hopes on finding fault than fixing problems.
KD: Looks like we need to get some fixin’ in the mix…
MJ: I do my best fixin’ when I get to mixin’…
KD: Mix on Jinxie, mix on…
An Immersive Pups Memory
Morning Essential Ones,
Ken-Dogger: Morning 🌄 Vincente
Vincente: Hey, Dogger, cool exhibit yesterday.
KD: The Van Gogh immersive exhibit was pretty freakin awesome.
V: Sights and sounds Bro...
KD: It was way more than that, it got to his essence.
V: How so...
KD: It was in his stroke, there was the continuity among madness.
V: Continuity among madness, I see why this is popular now.
SHE'S GOT THE LOOK...
Ken-Dogger: Well damn Layla, what ARE we doing?
Layla: Well, it just so happens these work...
KD: These?
L: Yep, these prominent topographical features win men's eyes
KD: Ya know, they kinda do...
L: What you talkin' 'bout, I see your eyes dart when we're walking...
KD: Not all the time
L: Yep, most of the time
KD: Okay, point taken...but this, you think it has an effect
L: Got my breakfast quicker today didn't I...
CUDDLE MORE
Ken-Dogger: Morning guys, you up? Oh, I see you’re doing your morning greeting
Frank: We cuddle in the morning, cuddle in the evening, cuddle at supper time…
Incense: Yes, we cuddle because we like the physical sensation…
KD: Maybe if peeps in the world cuddled more, we might have more peace…
F: Dude, you worry about the global stuff, we’re acting locally…
KD: That might be all that matters…
I: Yes, maybe when we learn to act locally, we can start to tackle the global
Pups Memory
Morning Strangers in a Strange Land,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Sluggo, we're in a strange place.
Sluggo: IKR, don't worry I marked my spot.
KD: You did what?
S: Dude, chill...it's natural, and now, a tad wet.
KD: Come on Sluggo, you're better than this...
S: Performance anxiety Bro...stuff happens
KD: it’s a good thing you're cute, forgiveness happens too.
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Jill and Phil
Jill & Phil: Hey Dogger, we have a question.
KD: And?
J: Well, you’re just so darn happy all the time.
KD: I do seem happier, don’t I?
It’s a nice change…I’m doing things I love.
P: Cool, and at your age…
KD: Careful Phil, I latched on to a secret.
J: Secret?
KD: I just tried to love life and then, I decided to let life love me back.
P: LOVE, it does a body good.
Another PM
Morning 🌄 Free Will Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Chocco what’s going on?
Chocco: Chillin'…
KD: I’ve been chillin more too…
C: What do you think it is?
KD: Someone said we didn’t have to fight anymore.
C: And just someone saying it, changed it?
KD: Yes, incredibly that is all it took.
C: So, it was a choice all along?
KD: Yep, crazy huh?
C: Totally Bro…going back to chillin, wanna hang?
A PM
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Grover, we’re heading out…
Grover: Back to Cali? I hope we enjoy it better.
KD: We will, we’ll see new places
G: But, you haven’t been enamored thus far
KD: Well, I’m open to the New, and I’m remembering something my Daddy said, “Never think your experience is the total experience.”
G: Wow, you mean there may be more to something than we realize?
KD: Usually, there’s a lot more Grover, let’s stay open to nice surprises…
G: Boo…
A Bag It Up Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: You know what, I like the playettes
No diggity, no doubt, Play on playette, play on playette
Yo Bowser, drop the verse
Bowser: It's going down, fade to blackstreet
KD: Bowser, I like the way you work it
Bowser: No diggity
KD: I like the way you work it
B: No diggity
KD: I like the way you work it
B: No diggity, now you got to bag it up, bag it up
We DID start winning more
Pups Memory
Morning 🌄 Winners,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Schultz, are we winning?
Schultz: Winning what?
KD:Winning the Pandemic War…
S: Peeps have been fighting for almost a year…
KD: it’s been diffuse…Are we a nation-state or are we a nation of state-nations?
S: We’ve got a new ‘General now
KD: Yes we do, let’s make winning happen.
S: Yes, let’s roll…
AA PM
Ken-Dogger: Look out Nelson, it's way cold and windy today.
Nelson: Dude, I'm hip, I'm gonna pee fast...sheesh, pee is freezing before it hits the ground
KD: Nelson, decorum please...
N: Oh yea right, forgot my place...Glad you have me tethered, it might fly away.
KD: C'mon man, you know I'd never let you go out here...
N: I do bro, attachments are there for a reason, they keep us together.
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