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
APPRECIATION
Ken-Dogger: Well Chantay, been in the closet again I see...
Chantay: Well, saw all these kids walking in 'em, thought I'd join in
KD: Well Missy, you gotta earn that hat
C: Not all the time, have you seen some of their grades?
KD: C'mon, be nice...You'll get there, once your training is done
C: I wanna be a graduate
KD: Well then, Earn it...You'll appreciate it more
C: Huh, appreciation, must be more to it than I thought
PROTECTION
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Buster, what up?
Buster: Dude, I’m stretchin’…doggie yoga, man
KD: IKR, I want to get you going and you’re stretchin’…
B: I need to know stuff works, I don’t want to get a silly injury
KD: Oh, it’s a dog’s way of knowing your body.
B: That’s it…We seem to know innately how to protect ourselves.
KD: I think you’re on to something, I’m gonna stretch more now.
B: At your age Bro, your body needs all the protection it can get.
KD: Steady, boy, steady…
Right to Worry?
Morning Human-Kinders,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Cujo, what up?
Cujo: Bro, I’m worried, pandemic seems to be raging still.
KD: Not here so much, that’s in other countries.
C: And that doesn’t bother you?
KD: It does, but what am I to do?
C: Well, you could advocate for peeps who don’t have someone to advocate for them.
KD: Seems like we need to get to a group where all are helped.
C: You have that, it’s called HUMANITY.
KD: You’re right to worry…
MAKING THEM WHOLE
Ken-Dogger: Hey Mama Cass, what you doing with Brutus and Mongo?
Mama Cass: Teaching them how to follow the lead
KD: But they're gonna be MEN
MC: What the hell does that mean?
KD: Well, Men...they, uh, they TAKE the lead
MC: Leaders start as followers, that's how they learn.
KD: Oh, teaching the yin and yang I see...
MC: Yes, you boys stay out of our way, Mamas will make them whole.
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Scratch, that’s you.
Scratch: Was wondering, I didn’t recognize me.
KD: Mirrors are great, we get to check ourselves out.
S: Like checking to see all our stuff is in the right place?
KD: Yes, but when we go out, peeps don’t often see just our mirror image.
S: They see more?
KD: They see our actions, and our words, and they see we’re more than a mirror image.
S: Wow, and here I thought I just had to look cute, better work on my personality.
READINESS...IT'S A THING
"Dude, it ain't that hard, the rule is I before E except after C..."
"Jeez, Ma, I'm not sure this one is ready for spelling..."
END THE SUFFERING
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: What’s all this noise?
Nellie: I’m protesting…
Shelley: Yes, and I want him to stop.
KD: So this is how you’re handling it.
N: Shelley wouldn’t let me take a knee…
S: That’s right, I like upping the ante.
KD: Many do up the ante, until we get beyond protesting, losing the veracity of it all.
N: So we keep fighting?
KD: Until you find another way to end the suffering.
NO SMALL FEAT FOR HUMANS EITHER
"Hey, check this out, took me most of the morning Ma, but I've finally got both ears going in the same direction...
What you say?
To a Beagle, this is no small feat."
WHEN YOU AIN'T LOOKIN', THEY TAKE 'EM
"What you talkin' 'bout Willis?
I'm checkin' cause you see what they did to the tail...
Tell me, can you see 'em, or did they take them too?
Well, are they there?"
STILL 'BOUT FIXIN'
Morning Cycle Fixers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Quigley, why the look?
Quigley: Did Rudy G get paid?
KD: What? You’re concerned about that? Isn’t that Rudy’s problem?
Q: It is, it’s also ours…
KD: Not sure I follow…
Q: Well, it’s really more about the End of a Story, we never seem to get there.
KD: Does leave stuff open and easily escaped, doesn’t it?
Q: Yep, it’s just a series of ‘new stuff’ anymore, cycle seems broken.
KD: Then we need to get about fixing the cycle.
SOMETIMES, THE PUPS GIVE US GUIDANCE
"Okay, okay, okay, I know I said it before...But if you'd help me out of this box for the 20th time, I promise, well I hope to promise, the 21st time won't come soon, well, soooo soon....
Ma, you might also consider not putting these fun things in places where I can get to..."
THE PUPS ARE WATCHIN' AND LEARNIN'
Ken-Dogger: Hey Brutus, you getting up?
Brutus: (Opens one eye, closes again) ZZZZZ
KD: It's okay, I'm up and I can't get back to sleep
B: ZZZZZ
KD: Did you hear me?
B: ZZZZZ
KD: Wait, did the Mikster tell you to ignore me?
B: ZZZ, nope, I just watched her, learned it all on my own
KD: Et tu, Brutus, et tu...
Morning Peeps,
The Day's Aroma...
Middle Pup: I know, I know Ma, I'm supposed to be posing for this great puppy pic, but....
well, I just farted and I'm laughing cause my peeps are tryin' to keep a straight face..."
HOW DO YOU USE COLOR?
"I know, I don't know how it happens either...Some of us are brown on the outside and white inside, some of us are white on the outside and brown inside, some white and white, some brown and brown."
"So,...it really doesn't matter what color on either side?"
"Nope, never did, unless you choose to use color to discriminate..."
REVISITING MASCULINITY
Ken-Dogger: Morning Princess
Princess: Morning KD, let’s go on a walk.
KD: Let’s just wait for the Mikster, she enjoys the walks too.
P: You just don’t want to be seen with me do you?
KD: Well, you ARE a bit froufrou.
P: Really, I’m impacting your masculinity?
KD: It is silly, my masculinity isn’t that fragile.
P: Didn’t think it was, so we’re walking?
KD: Yep, masculinity is about doing what’s right.
Ken-Dogger: Hey Jacque, did you hear about America’s newest status symbol?
Jacque: No, but I think I’m gonna…
KD: Shush…Apparently, we’re beefing up backyards, making them their own fun park.
J: Wow, more places to segregate us huh?
KD: Would appear that way, you know we closed community pools rather than integrate them.
J: Yep, and now we’re closing off homes. Maybe we weren’t meant to come together.
KD: No, we were…We just have powerful forces working to keep us apart.
WHAT WE MAKE THEM OUT TO BE
"Look at me, LOOK AT ME...I'm not a killer.
People make me a killer, just like a gun makes a willful murderer..."
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE VOICES
Morning Filtered Ones,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Pepe, do you believe that lady?
Pepe: Which one?
KD: The one on the phone in that store…sheesh, sharing her life story
P: Has she not heard of filters?
KD: I don’t know, but there clearly wasn’t one…Did I need to know her relationship foibles?
P: Peeps have been inside for a long time
KD: So, we need to clarify inside and outside voices again?
P: Apparently, we’re reestablishing norms.
IT MIGHT BE UNFAIR, BUT IT DOES SEEM TERRIBLY HUMAN
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bryn, what's wrong?
Bryn: The other pups' parents won't let me play with them, they say I'm too rough and mean...
KD: Hmmm, well some of your breed gets turned into fighters, they have a bad rap
B: Well, it's keeping me from having friends
KD: We humans do that a lot, we assign peeps to groups whether they belong or not
B: Seems terribly unfair...
KD: Seems terribly human to me...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rambo, you ready for Memorial Day?
Rambo: I am, what is it?
KD: A day we remember those who gave their lives in defense of American freedom.
R: A most solemn day indeed. What are you going to do?
KD: I’m going to be reverent, to salute my comrades, and to vow to never forget their sacrifice.
R: America was built on sacrifice wasn’t it?
KD: It was, freedom sometimes demands sacrifices…
R: Hopefully, Americans can honor that today and all days.
KD: Yes, hopefully…
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