HEED THE FLOWERS LIFE GIVES YA...
Ken-Dogger: A flower Cleo?
Cleo: Yea Boy…I’m bringing you one.
KD: And why is that?
C: Well, I noticed early on, you tended to me, we took long walks, we cuddled…now, not so much.
KD: Well, relationships grow and they change dynamics
C: I want to sing songs again, play again, all the stuff we did when flowers were fresh.
KD: I miss that too…
C: Hence the Flower Bro, heed the Flowers life gives ya…
REMEMBERING BUNDLES OF JOY
Ken-Dogger: Hey guys, you...oops, didn't realize you're still sleepin'
I'm just gonna sit here and watch these two bundles of joy, this is peace for me...
BECOMING KIWIS
Ken-Dogger: Cato, again with the questions…
Cato: How do I become a Kiwi?
KD: A piece of fruit, you wanna become a piece of fruit?
C: No Bro…A New Zealander, you know someone who ‘gets’ managed isolation.
KD: Oh, you mean a country who has a plan, who has used their resources to stop the spread, not to politicize it.
C: Yep, a Kiwi…
KD: They’ve beat it twice now, we haven’t even tried once…Can I be a Kiwi too?
C: I’ve started building Kon-Tiki II…
Should have posted Monday
Morning IP Day Celebrators,
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Morning Trixie
Trixie: Peeps are off today, what’s up?
KD: President Biden declared it Indigenous Peoples Day.
KD: Celebrations remind us of our cultural heritages.
T: We need to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ contributions to US culture.
KD: They have one of the highest group rates of Military Service, they honor security.
T: And They value a reverence for life.
KD: Perhaps, we should have more of these days.
Apologies to Yankees Fans...
Os made it this year, but they're barely holding on now.
Ken-Dogger: Jeter, why the long face?
Jeter: Dude, you know, and I'll bet you're a damn Red Sox fan...
KD: None other, used to be a Yankee fan until they started buying everything
Jeter: Hasn't seemed to help has it?
KD: There's always next year.
Jeter: Dogger Man, it's get's old, it just gets old...
PROTECTION...It's not the same for everyone
Ken-Dogger: What do you want Cato?
Cato: Oh snap, I forgot that’s a signal to you…
KD: Well yeah, I worked in schools.
C: Okay, so how’s the robbing going?
KD: Robbing?
C: Well, every time you go into a store, you are masking up…just thought it was a stick up
KD: Oh, no, just masking to protect others…
C: I think Jesse James said the same thing…
KD: That was different…
C: Guess protection isn’t the same to everyone
KD: Apparently not.
T-L Meter
Ken-Dogger: Morning Fabio, what you got there?
Fabio: Uh…A Box…I’m playin’ in it.
KD: Oh, but I mean, what came in it?
F: Not sure, it said LT-Meter on the side…
KD: Oh, that’s my new Lie-Truth Meter, I was looking for that.
F: Cool, so you can tell what is true and what is a lie?
KD: Naw, sold exclusively in America, the meter doesn’t sort anything, half believe it’s a lie, half believe it’s the truth, it’s altering the toy world.
F: And it’s altering the real world too.
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Hoot
Hoot: Did you see that story on climate change yesterday? Kinda said we’re not really doomed.
KD: Saw that, but it did say we need action now.
H: Oh Crap, you mean legislators have our fate?
KD: Yep, and they will wait for the 11th hour for someone/something to save ‘em.
H: Like some technological improvement?
KD: Yes, a tech breakthrough, but it needs to be a real one.
H: IKR, the breakthroughs we’ve been having are ‘Give Me a Break, I’m Through.’
Ken-Dogger: Morning Jake
Jake: Hey KD, what are we headed for today?
KD: Not sure Jake, I’m gonna spread some more stone.
J: You go Dawg, I’m diggin’ the improvements.
KD: So what are you going to do?
J: Not sure, think I might sit a spell and just ponder…
KD: You are quite the philosopher.
J: Someone’s gotta be, you Humans aren’t showing much capability lately…
KD: Too busy just eking out a living Jake…
Morning Peeps,
WHEN WILL ALL OF US MEAN MORE?
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.
WE ALL NEED...THE HUMAN TOUCH
Morning Individuals,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Roxie
Roxie: Morning Dogger, a question…
KD: Okay…
R: Am I an individual or am I a group?
KD: You’re always an individual, but sometimes part of a group. Why do you ask?
R: Well, when I’m an individual, peeps take to me; when I’m in a group, trouble starts.
KD: The personal becomes impersonal…
R: So, we need more personal touch?
KD: Yes, the Hammer doesn’t seem to be working to bring peeps together.
CAMPER'S CODE
Ken-Dogger: Dixiee, we're going camping...
Dixiee: I'm tryin' to contain my excitement
KD: You enjoying the ride Baby Girl?
D: I sure am dude, but ya know what I'm enjoying more?
KD: No, what pray tell...
D: It's the camper's code
KD: The what?
D: Camper's code--What you carry in, you carry out...Happy Trails to You until we camp again
BEING FAMILY
Ken-Dogger: Hey guys, you look so cute there...One of you looks a little different.
Chief: Oh, the one in the middle, she's our sister.
KD: Sister from another mother?
Chief: Naw, sometimes the same mother can produce oddly different kids.
KD: Go on...
Chief: Siouxee may look different, but she's our sister, we're family, that's all that matters.
IT'S WHY WE LEARN FIGURIN' IN SCHOOL
Morning Cyclers,
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Hey Dash, you gonna catch ‘em all?
Dash: If I can…
KD: Next to impossible Dasher…
D: What’s goin’ on?
KD: It’s Fall, leaves fall, it’s the tree’s cycle.
D: Do I have a cycle?
KD: We all do, we’re all tryin’ to figure out where we are in it.
D: Well, let’s get to figurin’…
BEST TO LOSE THE ATTITUDE
Bowser: Christian, you all ready for your job interview?
Christian: Yep, got my practice all down.
B: Christian, what practice is that?
C: Well, last week I saw this dude on the telly and in his job interview, he was yelling and calling peeps out, thought it was the new interview strategy.
B: Dude, are you white and privileged?
C: Nope...
B: Lose the attitude...
BROTHERHOOD IS BROTHERHOOD
Ken-Dogger: Hey Hap, you’re looking chipper.
Hap: I’m Supreme my brother…
KD: You’re what?
H: I’m supreme, I have status, authority, mastery, control, power and sway.
KD: You do? So what?
H: Doesn’t it mean something?
KD: It means you think you’re better, but it’s a false status.
H: Why’s that?
KD: You’re forsaking the brotherhood of man…that’s why.
H: Does it matter I’m a dog?
KD: Nope, brotherhood is brotherhood.
SOME OF US DO CUTE ALL DAY LONG
Good morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Okay, right there Bella
Bella: Sheesh
KD: Hold that pose
B: Alright, already
KD: Almost there
B: That’s it, I’m done…
KD: Aww, that was such a cute pose.
B: Dude, stick around, I’m doing cute all day long.
WE ARE KNOWN BY OUR ACTS
Ken-Dogger: Look at these pups, I don't know which one to choose.
Kennel Owner: It's really not a hard choice, take both.
KD: Dude, not sure I want or can handle two.
KO: Well, if you want pups from me, you take both or none at all. These pups are family to me, they're not AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS.
KD: I'll take 'em, I support families staying together.
TAKIN' ONE FOR THE TEAM
Ken-Dogger: Hey, Claude and Maude, stop that.
Claude: Stop what?
KD: The fighting Bro…not cool
Maude: We’re just playing…it’s how we play.
KD: Well, sometimes playing looks like fighting.
C: We know the difference, we’re cool with it.
KD: You may be, but it strikes of incivility, and we can’t have that.
M: Too much in the world already?
KD: Yep
C: Guess We Pups will just have to take one for the team.
So, take these
Morning Dreamers,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Guys
Lady: Shhh, I’m at a critical point with Floofy.
KD: Huh?
L: She’s worried about her dreams, they’re slippin’ away.
KD: Langston Hughes once said “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
L: With all this extinction, I’m worried about my ability to fly.
KD: We all need to rekindle those dreams, and let the slippin’ stop.
L: Well then, I believe I can fly…I'm touchin' the sky.
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277