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
There ARE Scarier days...
Ken-Dogger: Whoa, just a minute there Snickers, you got your costume on already?
Snickers: Yea man, love this day and costuming...This is the scariest day in America
KD: I know, I used to think that too, but then I remembered Election Day is next week.
Snickers: Scarier day isn't it?
KD: Yep, it is...
YOU JUST GOTTA STAY WHERE LOVE IS...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Buddy, aww, I'm sorry didn't realize you're still sleeping
Buddy: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
KD: Dude, I'm keepin' you there with your Cuddles. If I awaken you, you'll only see Americans debating which side's hate is more vitriolic.
Buddy: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
KD: Sleep on Dude, love resides here...
Ooh, in time it could have been so much more
Ken-Dogger: Hey Dolly
Dolly: Hey Bro, was just thinking about time.
KD: Huh?
D: Well, it’s the same 60 minutes in an hour, but you all seem to experience it differently.
KD: You mean time doesn’t pass the same for all of us?
D: Doesn’t seem so, some are frazzled, some are unfazed in the same time period.
KD: So, you’re saying it’s a choice how you view the time you have?
D: It’s a choice how you use your time, hopefully a conscious one.
Baseball is LIFE
Ken-Dogger: Dixiee, would you look at Truck sleepin' there...
Dixiee: Now that's cute, tucked in there with his baseball, was a great season
KD: It was Baby Girl...And the best team won, doesn't always happen that way, but this year it did
D: Just shows you what a little bit of chemistry can do huh?
KD: Yep, it does, it's always in the blending that you become better than yourself...
GETTING BACK TO DECENCY AND CIVILITY
Morning Civil Ones,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Terry
Terry: Is this how we’re going to live now, peeps yellin’ at each other daily.
KD: Seems so, I can’t imagine carrying around all that anger.
T: So what’s up?
KD: Getting my booster today, early in the morning.
T: Wow, doing your part?
KD: Doing the part I think I’m supposed to, part of being civil, and I’m around peeps more now too.
T: If we’re going to do society, let’s do it civilly.
STRETCHING
Ken-Dogger: Hey Cleo
Cleo: Morning Bro
KD: You’re all laid out.
C: I am, doing my stretches…
helps me get ready for the day.
KD: Cool, stretching is good for the body.
C: I’m hip Bro, I stretch all the time…It protects me and it helps me grow.
KD: I know, when I stretch myself I find new ways of doing, new ways of knowing, and new ways to keep my health.
C: Now you see why I stretch?
KD: Yep, stretching…good for the body, mind, and soul.
C: Dude, pass it on.
PLANNING GUIDANCE
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bruno, what up?
Bruno: Dude, looking for that movie with Jack.
KD: Which one?
B: The one where he’s a Marine Colonel and orders the Code Red
KD: Okay, and why?
B: Well, remember when he says “You’re damn right I did”
KD: Yes, Ol’ Jack thought he had moral authority over regulations.
B: Well, you might want to remind those peeps who held planning meetings for a coup.
KD: Good point, thinkin’ you’re right doesn’t make it so…
APPRECIATE THE GIG YOU GOT
Ken-Dogger: Don't even...
Dixiee: Would you look at that Dude, my 'bro' has his own place.
KD: Hey Baby Girl, you really want your own place?
Dixiee: Naw, I kinda like my gig, and sleeping in bed with my two fave peeps, that's killer.
KD: Thought you might say that.
DREAM WORLD SERIES
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Happy, what has you so perked up this morn?
Happy: Dodgers won Man, can ya dig it?
KD: Dude, I can...Should be an interesting World Series
Happy: Dogger Man, there's another series?
KD: Yep, can you stand it?
Happy: You see this face, this is the face of exuberance; it's also the face of disappointment but who's counting.
KD: Happy, boy you crack me up...You like both teams don't ya?
Happy: Yep, gonna be a helluva Series.
Morning Peeps,
TRYING TO MOVE TO PEACE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Bart, what up?
Bart: Just give some peace, all I want is some peace…
KD: Lennon this morning?
B: I’m sick and tired of hearin’ things from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites…
KD: But wait, I thought it was all I want is some truth, just give me some truth.
B: Dude, we blew past truth 6 or 7 years ago…
DIVERTING ENERGIES
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Pietro, you look a little freaked.
Pietro: Dude, you don’t know the half of it…
KD: What gives?
P: I’m looking for more house plants, I don’t think we have enough.
KD: What do you mean? There are scads here…
P: Well, we’re gonna need a lot.
KD: Why?
P: So much killing now, humans killing each other…just thought since most peeps kill house plants anyway, I might divert the energy.
KD: Let me help you look…
ADJUSTING
Ken-Dogger: Hey Brutus, what up?
Brutus: Can ears express?
KD: Wha?
B: Well, with these masks, I can’t see your whole face. I was just wondering what to focus on.
KD: Not sure about ears expressing, I guess they can, but the movement seems limited.
B: Well then, how do I know you’re kind when you are wearing a mask.
KD: You know it by how I act, you also know it by my eyes.
B: Ah, the eyes, windows to the soul…Guess I’ll have to adjust.
KD: We all are Brutus, we all are.
There ARE still places where learning and love go together
Morning Peeps...you seen Will?
Ken-Dogger: Hey Oscar, you working?
Oscar: No, I was seeing what you were doing.
KD: I was scrolling through the scores of the Div II/III games.
O: Took you a while, there’s a lot of ‘em
KD: Yes, places where players largely play because they love the game.
O: Wow, there are still places where learning and love go together?
KD: Yes, all it takes is will
O: Well, let’s go find it then…
GETTING UNSTUCK
Morning Mellow Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Melo, what’s going on?
Melo: Dude, I just stepped in somethin’, not cool.
KD: Then, why are you winking?
M: I’m not winking Bro, I’m showing frustration.
KD: Oh? What frustrates you now?
M: Dude, I should recognize these pitfalls and adjust, will keep my paws cleaner.
KD: Wow, you can make adjustments?
M: Bro, if you don’t adjust, you get stuck.
KD: Melo, teach me how to make that face.
WHAT DOES get out the vote REALLY MEAN?
Ken-Dogger: Hey Puffer, why the long face?
Puffer: Went down to the polling station to vote, they wouldn't let me.
KD: Why? Didn't have picture ID?
Puffer: No Dude, I couldn't remember my street address...peeps knew me there as I had bit a couple in the past, but no vouching allowed.
KD: Damn, they know how to get out the vote don't they?
Puffer: Yea, but GET OUT to them has a whole different meaning...
CONSERVATION...Some don't see the value.
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Charlemagne, you okay?
Chalemagne: Dude, come on, I’m fine…why you ask?
KD: You’re just up there and not moving.
C: I’m moving, I’m conserving.
KD: Really, you’re going with that?
C: Bro, that’s the trouble with conservation, peeps don’t see it, so they don’t think there is value in it.
KD: It’s just a matter of ensuring something’s left when you need it.
C: Hence, my conserving…
KD: Hence, my understanding.
SOMETIMES, THEY'RE MAN-EATERS, WATCH OUT BOY, WATCH OUT BOY...
Chuckles: Oh here I come, watch out boy I'll chew you up, oh here I come, I'm a man-eater
Ken-Dogger: I wouldn't if I were you (but it does look like you did already), I know what she can do, she's deadly man, and she could really rip your world apart, mind over matter, the beauty is there but a beast is in the heart
Chuckles: The Mikster's not gonna be happy
KD: Not so much...
(Hall & Oates - Maneater)
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…
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...
BUILDING KON-TIKI
#pups4peace
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…
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