(001)▪︎[ The Hardest DIY Project … 2026 ]

Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.

[ This Project Seems To Have A Mind Of Its Own Once You Passed The (25yr) Mark ]

[ The Very Hardest DIY Project? ]

[ The Very Hardest DIY Project You Have Ever Taken On Has To Be Marriage ]

[ This Is The Hardest But Most Rewarding Project You Have Ever Stepped Into ]

[ You’re Changing Through The Years & So Is She. You Just Hope You Are Not Changing Away From Each Other ]

[ No (2dys) Are Alike ]

[ But You Love Her Like No Other ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Decision … 2025 ]

What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?

[ The Hardest Decision That Was Needed To Be Made ]

[ You Like To Think That Forrest Gump Was Right When He Compared Life To A Box Of Chocolates ]

[ You Tend To Think That Life Is Littered With Pieces Of Chocolate, But Also As Many Land Mines Along The Path ]

[ @ Any Specific Time, You Are Faced With Hard Decisions To Make ]

[ Maybe The Hardest Ones Could Be Looked @ As Putting Out The Nearest Fire ]

[ (6mo’s) After You Turned (18yrs) Old You Had To Find A Couple Of Guys, & Then A Place To Live When Dear Old Don Told You To Get Out Of His Home ]

[ Then (9mo’s) Later You Decided To Pack Your Stuff Up Again & Move Over (300mi) South To Go To College ]

[ For The Next (43yrs) Life Has Been Dotted With Hard Decisions That Personally Affected Your Life & Future ]

[ One Of The Biggest, Most Important Decisions You Made In Your Life Happened Over (31yrs) Ago. First It Was To Ask This Woman Nicole If She Wanted To Go Beyond Being Friends, & Try To Make A Go @ Being A Couple ]

[ She Thought It Over For A Very Long (5sec), Then Said, “Sure, Why Not?” ]

[ A Couple Of Months Later You Made Another Important Decision Concerning Your Future … Should You Pay Exact Change For Another Burger, Or Just Get Change?! ]

[ Oh Ya, December 25th, 1994 You Asked Nicole To Marry You? You Could Not Believe How Long It Took Her To Answer, “Sure, Why Not?” ]

[ Oh, If Only She Would Have Had The Lucky Hindsight To See What Exactly She Was Signing Up For, She Probably Would Have Thought Twice About It ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Books … 2026 ]

What books do you want to read?

[ What Books Do You Want To Read? ]

[ Ever Since Surviving The Riot Where You Used To Work, You Have Not Been Able To Sit & Enjoy Reading Books. You Lost Your Ability To Retain & Comprehend What You Just Read. Short Term Memory Lapses Are The Worst. You Keep Having To Go Back A Paragraph Or (2) To See How A Name They Are Mentioning Correlates With What You Were Just Reading. The Back & Forth Would Get Confusing & Frustrating. Some People Might Wonder, “Then How Do You Write The Stories That You Write?” It’s Easy, Because You Write Your Thoughts & Go Wherever That Adventure Might Take You. There’s No Memorization Going On.

You Are Trying To Read A Book That You Just Got Explaining The Coincidences Between The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln & John F. Kennedy. So Far It Has Been Really Fascinating. There Has Been About (14) Supposed Documented Coincidences.  But A Couple Of Them Have Been Completely Debunked. It Is Shame That People Have Felt The Need To Make Things Up For Some Kind Of Connection Between Lincoln & Kennedy.

One Of The Strangest Connection That I Have Read About Is The One When They Talked About The Book Depository Building That Lee Harvey Oswald Shot Kennedy From Was Originally Built In Lincoln’s Hometown & Then Moved To Dallas, Texas Where It Sits As A Landmark To The JFK Assassination.

The Books That You Used To Like To Read Were About Serial Murderers. From As Far Back As You Can Remember, It Always Fascinated You About The Way That Some People Think. & For Someone To Go Out Of Their Way To Plan & Carry Out Killing Other People Has Always Been Fascinating.  The Why Is The Biggest Question. You Figure There Are Times During Someone’s Day When They Might Walk The Legal Tightrope. Going Too Fast In Their Car, Lying On Their Taxes, Or Taking A Pen Home From Work, But To Go Out & Take Another Person’s Life, Is Not Just A Casual Decision For The Majority Of Society.

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(140)▪︎[ It Was Something … 2026 ]

[ The Most Important Tool That Everyone Has, Is A Voice ]
[ The Next Important Tool ]
[ That Everyone Has, Is A Choice ]

[ The Choice To Use Their Voice Or Not ]
[ But Is Choice, The Only Thing That You’ve Got? ]
[ That Won’t Rot? ]

[ So … ]
[ You Say ]

[ Prove With Man Power That Is Such ]
[ You Bet It Would Not Take That Much ]

[ Even Though The Choice Is Yours ]
[ You Need To Pick Your Time ]
[ If You Are Down On All Fours ]
[ Are You Worth A Dime? ]

[ Naw … ]
[ That Is Not What You Saw ]
[ Now You Feel Kind Of Raw ]

[ What You Saw Wasn’t Nothing ]
[ It Was Actually Something ]
[ Or Was It Just A Simple Thing? ]

[ So Is This The Proof? ]
[ Or Is This Some Form Of Spoof? ]
[ That Brings Together The Group ]
[ But It Does Not Have The Makings Of A Legitimate Goof ]

[ Because Proof Would Always Be In The Pudding ]
[ If That Was True ]
[ Would This Be Including ]
[ Or Is This Story Concluding? ]

______________________

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo E Ka hoa  ]
[  A hui hou  ]
[  Aloha  ]

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ]

(052)▪︎[ All Kinds Of Despair In A Day … 2026 ]

[ Despair ]
[ Sure Can Collapse A Whole Day ]
[ Especially When There Is Zero Hope For Repair ]
[ In Any Way ]

[ A Haze Takes Over The Brain ]
[ Simple Thoughts Become A Strain ]
[ You Feel Like You Are The Lone Passenger On An Amtrack Train ]

[ Going Nowhere Fast ]
[ You Constantly Feel Beat Up ]
[ By The Mistakes From Your Past ]

[ Each One Leaving A Wide Gash On Your Soul ]
[ Leaving You Trying To Pick Up All Of The Broken Puzzle Pieces Of Your Life ]
[ Trying To Cover Your Head Up When You Dropped Into A Bottomless Rabbit Hole ]
[ When You Were Running From All Of The Strife ]

[ That Floats Like Pollution In The Air Out In Society ]
[ You Have Trouble Walking ]
[ Because Of The Gravity ]
[ Of All The Negative Talking ]

[ You Cannot Walk From One Corner To The Next ]
[ Without People Being Angry ]
[ Because They Just Read An Inflammatory Text ]

[ On Their $2000 Apple Phone ]
[ Because They Did Not Like The Tone ]
[ Of A Message They Received ]
[ From A Relative That Does Not Even Live In The Same Time Zone ]

[ You Kind Of Get The Feeling That The Telephone Was Not Invented So Someone That Lives Clear Across The Country Could Reach Out & Grab You By The Throat ]
[ Just Because They Were Given Some Sticky-Note ]
[ Informing Them About From Which Side Of The Aisle You Usually Vote ]

[ Politics Was Not Meant To Be There To Make Threats ]
[ & Those Are Not Made In Jest ]

[ How Do You Ever Rebound ]
[ From A Day That Literally Beat Your Self-Esteem ]
[ Into The Ground ]
[ & Squashed Your Most Important Dream? ]

[ You’ve Found That Real Dreams Really Do Not Come True ]
[ & Most People Who Have Ever Given You Their Word ]
[ Never Follow Through ]

[ Nowadays Another Person Can Shake Your Hand While Looking You Straight In Both Eyes ]
[ While Telling You Some Of The Biggest Lies ]
[ & This Is Not Only Done By The Shadiest Guys ]

[ Often Times The Worst Things Said Or Done To You Are By The Relatives Or People You Grew Up With ]
[ Just Ask Anybody That Has Kept A List ]
[ Of People They Loaned Money To, Then Got Stiffed! ]

[ What You Have Come To Hate ]
[ Is You Had To Wait ]
[ To Learn That Lesson, A Day Too Late ]

[ Because Now You Are More ]
[ Than A Dollar Too Short ]

[ To Pay Your Own Mortgage & Medical Bills ]
[ You Won’t Receive Compensation ]
[ Out Of Anybody’s Wills ]
[ Because You Overheard An Attorney’s Conversation ]

[ You Don’t  Even Know Who You Want To Will Your Possessions To Whenever Your Time Will Come ]
[ By Then Any Of The Benefactors That You Choose ]
[ Will Either Be Too Numb ]
[ To Care ]
[ Or Will Want To Take Off & Run ]
[ Because They Won’t Want To Share ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(051)▪︎[ The Outcome Remains The Same … 2026 ]

[ Throuughout The Years You Have Tried To Shout ]
[ From The Inside Out ]

[ That Your Heart Has Been Scarred ]
[ & You Your Self-Confidence ]
[ Has Been Charred ]

[ Like A Piece Of Steak That Was Forgotten On The Outside Barbecue ]
[ Even If Given To The Dog ]
[ She Wouldn’t Have A Clue ]
[ About What She Needed To Do ]

[ When Some Incidents Happen, They Don’t Fade Into The Past ]
[ Very Fast ]
[ Depending On The Severity Of The Incident ]
[ The Complete Memory Can Last & Last ]

[ Then ]
[ & When ]
[ This Begins To Happen ]

[ Your World Is Then Turned Upside Down ]
[ You Walk Around Town ]
[ With A Permanent Frown ]
[ Feeling Like You Look Like A Crying Clown ]

[ Not Worthy Of A Single Shiny Dime ]
[ Not Worth Anyone’s Time ]
[ Feeling Like The Only Way That You Could Ever Get Noticed ]
[ Would Be If You Committed Some Really Violent Crime ]

[ You Don’t Have The Talent Or The Looks ]
[ To Write Stories ]
[ Or Get Noticed In Any Kind Of Fashion Magazine Or Book ]

[ There Is No Such Thing As A Copywrite Law For Failure ]
[ Not With Your Short Stature ]
[ You Can Only Get Noticed As Being The Smallest Biggest Complainer ]

[ You Try, Try & Try ]
[ Sometimes You Ask Yourself, “Why?” ]
[ “Is It Only In An Attempt To Just Get By?” ]
[ Has Everything You’ve Been Telling Yourself In The Last (31yrs) Been One Big Lie? ]

[ What About The Lies That You Have Been Told By Others? ]
[ Especially By People That Want You To Look @ Them ]
[ As Fathers Or Mothers! ]

[ It Was Made Perfectly Clear ]
[ That After A Few Days, A Week Or Even A Couple Of Years ]
[ They No Longer Wanted You Near ]

[ Wherever That May Be ]
[ You Lost Your First Set Even Before You Turned (3) ]
[ & This Last Set Before You Turned (62) ]
[ All Of Your Parental Units Just Wanted To Be Free ]
[ They Should Have Dropped Some Kind Of Clue ]

[ So Here You Remain ]
[ You Saw, You Are Here & Then You Came ]
[ All Through The (3) Parental Units ]
[ You Foolishly Changed Your Name ]
[ Now You See Life As One Big Game ]
[ Try As Hard As You Could ]
[ But The Outcome Remains The Same ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(001)▪︎[ Name A Place … 2026 ]

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

[ Name A Place To Visit? ]

[ One City That You Have Not Been To In Years Is Portland, Oregon ]

[ You Try Not To Go To Portland, Especially Downtown Portland ]

[ You Might Have To See A Dr. On The Outskirts ]

[ Now From What You See On The News It Is One Extreme To The Next ]

[ You Grew Up On The Outskirts Of Portland ]

[ You Always Lived On The Southwest Area ]

[ Portland Should Not Be Defined By The Problems @ The I.C.E. Center Or What Goes On In The East Part Of Portland ]

[ But … Downtown Portland Has Had Its Problems ]

[ The Riots & The Shootings That Used To Be On The Local Nightly News ]

[ Portland Attracts The Crazies ]

[ It Is Just An Incident Away From Exploding Again ]

(026)▪︎[ What Has Happened? … 2026 ]

[ When Did Manners & Humanity ]
[ Leave Society? ]
[ You Are Not Talking About Being Political Correct ]
[ To Gain Publicity ]
[ You Bring Up The Subject In An Attempt To Re-Connect ]
[ Publicly ]

[ No, The Political Correct Terminology ]
[ Seemed To Try To Strike A Nerve ]
[ In Sociology ]
[ Then It Tried To Take A Turn ]
[ Into The Field Of Psychology ]

[ Not To Dampen The Spirits ]
[ Of Those That Believe In Terms Like That ]
[ Or To Cause Rifts ]


[ Being Politically Correct Is Just Being Nice ]
[ But On Unnecessary Steroids ]
[ If That Makes You Squirm & Think Twice ]
[ Then You Shouldn’t Have To Think About It Too Hard & Cause Yourself Hemorrhoids ]

[ Some People Would Rather Fight ]
[ On Sight ]
[ Instead Of Being Polite ]
[ & To Those People ]
[ You Kind Of Wish Them An Early Goodnight ]

[ & It Seems In The Younger Generation’s Heads ]
[ Chivalry Really Is Dead ]

[ Few Men ]
[ Holds The Door Open ]
[ For Incoming Women ]
[ When ]
[ & Then ]

[ A Woman Stands Behind Them ]
[ When You Think Of Human Decency ]
[ This Has Become A Big Problem ]
[ Actually, Only Recently ]

[ Nobody Thinks About The Other Person ]
[ Drug Addicts Do Not Want To Go Through Diversion ]
[ Everyone Should Try To Go On Daily Excursions ]

[ To See How They Can Change ]
[ No Matter How Deranged ]
[ & No Matter How Strange ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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