STAYING WET

Morning Peeps,

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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 AFTER THIS?

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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.

WILL HOPE AND ACTION KEEP WINNING THE DAY?

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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.

SOME THINGS...YES, YOU'LL JUST KNOW

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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,

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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…

MAKING ADJUSTMENTS

Morning Life Cyclers,

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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.

Morning Healers and Perspective-takers,

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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...

PROVIDING COMFORT...IT'S A CHOICE

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"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"

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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.

THE LIBRARY...ADVENTURES BEGIN

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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.

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Ken-Dogger: What up Brutus

Brutus: Dude, what the heck is a WILD TANGENT?

KD: It's kinda veering off in a strange direction, why do you ask?

B: Something about @Alfred and something that Jman @th3j35t3r don't want you to do.

KD: I think it has to do with coding...

B: So, it's just something that helps the Dude keeps this place in order?

KD: Yep, Jman's a freak on Order...

B: We should all be...

THE LINEUP PROVED DEFINITIVE

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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..."

KEEP ON RUNNING

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Ken-Dogger: Whoa Benji, where’s the fire?
Benji: There’s no fire, I’m running and exercising.
KD: Keeps you in shape and makes you strong.
B: It gives me balance.
KD: Balance from exercising?
B: Dude, we’re part mental, part physical, we need to balance the two.
KD: Yes, we do…maybe that’s our trouble now, too much mental.
B: Dude, that’s why I run…

FOR EVERY ACTION, THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION

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Owner: "Come on buddy, you got this, you're sitting, this is sitting, good boy..."

Hogarth: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, keep it up...This training thingy goes both ways ya know, you REALLY wanna do this?"

Hey Balancers,

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Ken-Dogger: Don’t give me that look Clarice
Clarice: My, my, my, how’s your boo-boo?
KD: It’s comin’ along…talk about leaving it on the road
C: Stop, almost spit my coffee Bro…What do you think it was?
KD: I was pushing myself and I went too far and I took a spill. Mikster has me in training timeout for my own good.
C: Balance in all things, you know that.
KD: I do, and sometimes the journey gives us reminders.
C: The journey gives us signs, up to us to read ‘em.

LET THE MUSIC PLAY ON

Morning Peeps,

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Ken-Dogger: Morning Yeller, you playing already?
Yeller: That’s a fact Jack…I’m enjoying life
KD: Wow, what a concept, enjoyment…
Y: I’ve found I can abide by it.
KD: You can can you? It sure beats the alternative.
Y: IKR, what’s up with all this Anger Bro?
KD: Some peeps revel in it, and then they burst.
Y: Love and enjoyment never seem to burst, do they?
KD: Not in a bad way Buddy, not ever in a bad way.

Your Father's Son

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Ma: "Young man, you've got some explaining to do..."
Roscoe: "Ma, I was a helpless pawn..."
Ma: "Roscoe, it was a first date, how could you?"
Roscoe: "Ma, guess you might say I'm a member of the Shallow Resistance..."
Ma: "You are your father's son..."

IN LIFE, IT'S THE SMALL WONDERS...

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"Ma, this is incredible..."
"What's that Junior..."
"I've run all the way across this yard and I haven't stepped on my ears once..."
"Small wonders Junior, small wonders..."

OPEN SPACES

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Ken-Dogger: Uh Oh Beast, this doesn’t look good.
Beast: What? I’m looking stuff up.
KD: Like what exactly?
B: Use of adverbs in English, it’s overworked now.
KD: Well, they do provide emphasis to our words.
B: Yes, but they’ve also started diminishing arguments. We aren’t disturbed, we’re deeply disturbed. You just want to say ‘how deep was it?’
K: We’re in a world now where words are more salad than substance.
B: Yep, words just fill the open spaces now.

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Ken-Dogger: Hey Scratch
Scratch: Remember Plastics my boy…
KD: Come again…
S: I was just remembering The Graduate. You know, encouraging Ben to go into plastics.
KD: Yes, that was the new hope, wasn’t it? We didn’t handle the waste issue well.
S: I was just thinking of that relative to our water, you know, like keeping a supply.
KD: It’s up to innovation at this point, we blew past nature’s fixes.
S: Let’s get to innovating…
KD: We will, once we release the shackles of the past.