What’s the most fun way to exercise?
[ The Most Fun Way To Exercise For You Was Going To The Gym ]
[ You Loved Lifting Weights ]
[ You Miss Going To The Gym ]
[ The Buzzing Going Through Your Body After A Good Work-Out Was Wonderful ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
How would you improve your community?
[ Your Community ]
[ On A Nice Saturday, You Would Love To Get Everyone Out Of Their Homes, Apartments, Trailers Or Tents To Meet Each Other ]
[ Where You Grew Up There Would Be One Day In The Summer Where People Would Clean Off Their Picnic Tables That Sit In Their Backyards All Winter. Then The Streets Would Be Closed Off. Then People Would Bring Their Tables Out To The Street & It Would Be One Big, Happy Picnic With Your Neighbors ]
[ People Never Moved As Much As They Do Now ]
[ You Have Been In The Same House Now For Almost (18yrs). Everyone Around You Now, Were Already Here. We Are The Newest People In Our Neighborhood ]
[ The Reason You Would Bring Everyone Out On One Day Is So People Could Meet Their Neighbors ]
[ You Could Meet The Shy Family That Has Lived Next Door To You For The Last (2yrs) ]
[ You Could Meet The Young Couple Who Adopted A Child ]
[ Neighbors Do Not Even Know The Names Of Those That Live Around Them Anymore ]
[ The ‘VID’19 Was The WORST Thing That Could Have Happened To Society ]
[ Now … Everyone Is A Stranger ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
[ In A World Full Of Rampant Non-Compliance ]
[ & Brash Defiance ]
[ How Can You Ever Hope For Any Slight Form Of Compliance? ]
[ Domestic Violence Is On The Rise ]
[ After The ‘VID’19 Forced Everyone To Shelter In Place Years Ago ]
[ This Should Not Come As A Surprise ]
[ Men Are Not The Only One’s To Lose Their Cool ]
[ Women Are Now Picking Up & Throwing A Chair Or Stool ]
[ Making Each Party Looking Like A Fool ]
[ Sister & Brother ]
[ Are Attacking Each Other ]
[ It Is Not Even Safe Being A Father Or Mother ]
[ Homeless Shelters Are Over Flowing ]
[ The Prices Of Gas & Food Does Not Seem To Be Slowing ]
[ Nobody Knows Where The Economy Is Going ]
[ There Is No Absolute Knowing ]
[ Or Foretelling The Future ]
[ The Earth Is Being Wrecked By Disasters ]
[ Brought On By Mother Nature ]
[ Mother Nature Seems To Want To Shake Us Off Of Her Earth ]
[ Maybe She Wants The World ]
[ To Go Through A Rebirth ]
[ She Gave Us Thousands Of Years To Prove Our Worth ]
[ Humans Have Failed ]
[ A Huge Part Of This Country’s Men Have Been Jailed ]
[ Living A Slow Death Locked Up In A Governmental Cage ]
[ Hundreds Of Men Full Of Rage ]
[ Forced To Live In The Same Small Space ]
[ Because They Committed Crimes ]
[ That Took Them Out Of The Human Race ]
[ Cars & Factories Are Putting A Huge Hole In The Ozone Layer ]
[ Thousands Of Home Owners Have Now Been Relegated To Live Out Their Days In Small Trailers ]
[ Humans Have Proven That We As A Whole Society Are Failures ]
[ The ‘VID’19 Caused So Many Business’s To Close ]
[ When These Owners Started Out This Was Not What They Chose ]
[ Then Poof ]
[ The Number Of Suicides Went Through The Roof ]
[ Just Look @ The Numbers If You Want Proof ]
[ The Poor Just Want Something To Eat ]
[ The Rich Are Fed By Nothing But Greed ]
[ There No Longer Is Such A Thing As “Middle Class” ]
[ Like There Used To Be In The Past ]
[ Violent Person -to- Person Crimes Went Up Like A Bottle Rocket ]
[ Just So Some People Could Put A Little More Money In Their Pocket ]
[ Many Generational Farms Are Shutting Down ]
[ Every Summer ]
[ Fire Wipes Out Another Town ]
[ When That Happens ]
[ Everyone Has The Tears Of A Sad Clown ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
▪︎ •• •• ▪︎
[ If You Were To Throw Your (2) Cents Into The Ring ]
[ Would Anybody Take That & Do Anything? ]
[ On The Open Market How Much Would Your (2) Cents Bring? ]
[ A Nickel, Or Maybe A Dime? ]
[ It Sure Would Be A Crime ]
[ If Your (2) Cents Did Not @ Least Buy Someone’s Time ]
[ Deep Down, You Think You Are Kind Of Smart ]
[ & If Somebody Were To Tear You Apart ]
[ They Would @ Least Find That You Have A Big Heart ]
[ You Tried To Show Others A Good Example Of How To Live ]
[ You Tried To Write A Good Story To Give ]
[ Some Would Say That You Tried To Live In A Great Big Bubble ]
[ Surrounded By The Few People That You Love ]
[ You Wanted To Live Your Life Away From The Trouble ]
[ That Tries To Swallow Up Society ]
[ There Is Barely Any Happiness ]
[ Or Signs Of A Calm State Or City ]
[ Sometimes In Your Quest To Find Happiness You Have To Reach Deep Down Inside Yourself ]
[ You Can’t Rely On Someone Else ]
[ Life In Today’s Society Has Become A Kill Or Be Killed Environment ]
[ WOW, All Of The Years You Spent ]
[ To Make A Cent ]
[ All Of Those Days Spent In The Gym Preparing Your Body For Old Age ]
[ Was A Waste ]
[ & Only Your Clear Mind Keeps You From Flying Into A Full Lunatic Rage ]
[ Take All Of Your Supplements & Eat Well ]
[ Oh Swell ]
[ That Was Very Little Protection From Those That Said They Were Family ]
[ & Dragged Your Life Through Hell ]
[ True Family Are The Ones That You Choose Along The Way ]
[ But You Sure Have Been Fooled ]
[ By Those Honest Liars That Choose Not To Stay ]
[ & Run Away ]
[ Those Were The People That You Needed The Most ]
[ But When You Reached Out To Them ]
[ They Turned In To A Ghost ]
[ Never Returning Your Call ]
[ Watching From Afar ]
[ As You Fall ]
[ Then Choosing To Go Get Drunk, In Their Favorite Bar ]
[ Memories Of Your Past ]
[ Are Supposed To Last ]
[ Not Dissipate So Fast ]
[ But There Are Those That Wants Your Memory To Be Selective ]
[ Not Collective ]
[ They Want It Broken ]
[ It Is For Their Protection That You Don’t Be Reflective ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
▪︎ •• •• ▪︎
What’s something most people don’t understand?
[ What Don’t Most People Don’t Understand? ]
[ That’s Simple … Each Other ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
[ In The Last (5yrs) Life Has Seemed To Lost All Of Its Fun ]
[ Whenever You Go Outside You No Longer Seek Out The Warmth & Comfort Of The Sun ]
[ Or You Feel Like Bowing Your Head & Taking Off On A Dead Run ]
[ One Thing That You Still Love To Do Is Give ]
[ One Thing That You Are Losing ]
[ Is Your Will To Live ]
[ That Seems To Be Of Your Own Choosing ]
[ Since Everything Has Been Thrown In A Sieve ]
[ Whenever The Front Door Closes, You Feel Mentally Spent ]
[ You Have No Idea Where Thqe Zest For Life Went ]
[ You Try To Have A Good Day, But That Doesn’t Seem To Make A Dent ]
[ Lately You Wish That You Could Control Your Happiness By Simply Turning A Dial ]
[ Now You Can’t Even Seem To Hold A Smile ]
[ For Much Longer Than Awhile ]
[ You Feel Like You Are Aging Right Before Your Very Own Bloodshot Eyes ]
[ You Are Being Accused Of Telling Lies ]
[ But You Are Not ]
[ You Are Not Like Most Guys ]
[ Go Ahead & Polygraph You Right On The Spot ]
[ You Have No Money To Offer Another Woman ]
[ You Don’t Have The Good Looks Like The Average Man ]
[ You Feel Like Your Kind Is Headed For Extinction ]
[ Because Nothing About You Shines Of Distinction ]
[ In Your Mind, Chivalry Isn’t Dead ]
[ You Thought That Your Life Got A New Start ]
[ The Day You Were Wed ]
[ But Sometimes It Is Your Heart ]
[ That You Leave Tucked Under Your Pillows On The Bed ]
[ You Have Escaped Death Now More Than (9) Times ]
[ You Have Committed Zero Crimes ]
[ You Have Written Thousands Of Poetic Stories That Rhyme ]
[ You Felt That Over (23yrs) Ago You Found True Joy ]
[ When Your Wife Gave Birth To Your Only Child ]
[ A Boy ]
[ Raising Him Was Like Maneuvering A Canoe Down The River Nile ]
[ That Joy Did Not Last All That Long ]
[ You Cannot Pinpoint When Everything Started Going Wrong ]
[ Was The Father-Son Bond Ever That Strong? ]
[ There Is Something That You Do Know ]
[ Your Relationship Now ]
[ Sure Is One Big Shit Show ]
[ Things Have Happened Way In The Past That Still Affect You Now ]
[ You Want To Forgive & Forget ]
[ P.T.S.D. Really Affects Your Ability To Figure Out How ]
[ When You Try To Move In That Direction Your Feet Feel Like They Are In Concrete That’s Wet ]
[ Is This Something Like Your Big Cry For Help? ]
[ Well, If Life Was A Business That You Visited ]
[ It Would Get A Horrible Rating On Yelp ]
[ You Feel Like You Are (0-4) As Far As Parents Go ]
[ You Kind Of Feel The Names “Mom & Dad” Are Just Words, With Zero ]
[ Lasting Glow ]
[ Oh Hell ]
[ With Models Like Them ]
[ No Wonder Parenting Did Not Go So Well ]
[ You Know That People Are Going To Throw Their Really Wise (2cents) In ]
[ The Ring ]
[ Well Those People Can Take Their Bony Pointer Fingers & Sit & Spin ]
[ Tell Them It Won’t Sting ]
[ If They Don’t Even Begin ]
[ To Say Whatever Advice Or Words That They Want To Say ]
[ On Anyday ]
[ In Any Way ]
[ You Have A Very Small Circle Of Family That You’ve Made ]
[ There Is Not A Single Person In Your Circle That You Would Trade ]
[ Or Tell To Stand In The Shade ]
[ Each Person Brings So Many Things To Your Life ]
[ No One Has Ever Grabbed Your Throat & Threatened You With A Knife ]
[ The Sunshine Used To Shine On You Through The Smile Of Your Wife ]
[ Not So Much Anymore ]
[ Instead Of The Smile Being A Window To Her Soul ]
[ She Has Shut Down As Easy As It Is To Close A Door ]
[ & Your Marriage Has Tumbled Down A Rabbit Hole ]
[ You No Longer Feel Free ]
[ You Can No Longer See ]
[ How Good Things Could Be ]
[ You No Longer See The Bright Side Of The Street ]
[ Your Emotions Feel Beat ]
[ Down ]
[ You Now Have A Perpetual Frown ]
[ You Look Like You Have Shed The Tears Of A Sad Clown ]
[ Where Can You Hide ]
[ How Many Times Have You Felt That You Were Just Along For The Ride? ]
[ How Many Times Has Your Heart Died ]
[ & Unfortunately Been Revived? ]
[ Because You Don’t Want To Hurt Anyone ]
[ The Reasons That You Are Saying This To Each & Every Single One ]
[ Is Because You Love Them A Ton ]
[ To All Of Your Friends That You Are Sending This To ]
[ You Are Writing Them This Story Because You Did Not Know What Else You Could Do ]
[ If Any Of Them Have Thought That You Have Recently Seemed Distant ]
[ This Story Just Might Be A Small Clue ]
[ You Are Struggling ]
[ & It Is Depression & Fear That You Have Been Juggling ]
[ It Is Your Fear Of The Unknown Future That You Find Troubling ]
[ It Is Uncanny ]
[ How Many ]
[ Times The Years Have Passed You By ]
[ & How Many Issues Have You Failed To See Eye-to-Eye! ]
[ Whenever You See Your Friends ]
[ You Want To Say, “Hello”, Not “Goodbye” ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
▪︎ •• ● •• ▪︎
[ Some Days It Feels Like Frustration & Despair Drips From Every Pore ]
[ You Feel Like You Cannot Take Anymore ]
[ Accusations & Stress ]
[ How In The World Can You Get Out Of This Mess? ]
[ Every Single Night You Can Only Guess ]
[ About What Is Going To Happen When The Sun Melts Into The Ocean ]
[ You Wish You Could Foresee When The Commotion ]
[ Will Come Upon You ]
[ Because As It Stands ]
[ There Never Is Some Kind Of Social Cue ]
[ That Demands ]
[ Your Attention Like A Hidden Clue ]
[ There Is Never A Path Of Rice Crispis To Follow ]
[ Words Without Any Actions ]
[ Come Across Hollow ]
[ You Can’t Keep Hitting Your Head Against The Concrete Wall In Your Mind ]
[ In Real Life, It Causes You To Fall Behind ]
[ But In Your Head, It Seems Like You Are Blind ]
[ Because You Used To Be Good @ Reading The Writing On The Walls ]
[ But Now, In Today’s World, You Now Have To Read Between The Lines ]
[ You Used To Hope For Comforting Calls ]
[ & Reading Signs ]
[ You Just Are No Good ]
[ @ Those (2) Things ]
[ Now, Information Is Misunderstood ]
[ & Good Deeds Are Attached By Strings ]
[ You Are A Dinosaur Trying To Live To Be (65) ]
[ How Can You Have Any Chance To Thrive ]
[ When You Don’t Even Drive? ]
[ You Have To Always Ask For A Ride ]
[ Being @ The Mercy Of Others ]
[ Sure Can Take Your Pride ]
[ For A Ride ]
[ You Can’t Even Talk To Your Brother ]
[ About The Pain You Feel Inside ]
[ So Who Can You Trust That Will Treat Your Feelings Real? ]
[ Who Can You Talk To About How You Truly Feel? ]
[ If They Want You To Make A Promise ]
[ Tell Them, “I Will Only Make You A Deal!” ]
[ You’ve Seen People Using A Promise As A Token ]
[ That’s Why People Think That Nothing Happens If A Promise Is Broken ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
▪︎ •• •• ▪︎
[ @ The End Of The Day ]
[ You Need To Find A Way ]
[ To Use Your Voice ]
[ Even Though Those Around You Only Call It Noise ]
[ Trust Your Gut More ]
[ Make Your Presence Known ]
[ When You Come In The Door ]
[ Stand-Up & Be Yourself ]
[ Don’t Try To Pattern Your Actions After Someone Else ]
[ You Will Learn ]
[ You Don’t Have To Be Loud ]
[ To Be Heard ]
[ When In A Crowd ]
[ Purge Your Mistakes From The Past ]
[ Make The Sound Of Your Words Last ]
[ Don’t Be Discouraged So Fast ]
[ It Has Become Crystal Clear ]
[ That You Have A Voice That The Masses Should Hear ]
[ Listen To The Waves Breaking ]
[ Onto The Sand ]
[ There Is No Such Thing As Faking ]
[ When You Are In Demand ]
[ Don’t Turn Weak & Melt ]
[ Stand & Tighten Your Belt ]
[ Then Make Your Presence Felt ]
[ Smile In The Face Of Danger ]
[ Be Steadfast ]
[ Never Let Them See Your Anger ]
[ Stay Humble When Facing The Shouting ]
[ Be The Calm One In The Room ]
[ To Start Them Doubting ]
[ Never Let Them Cause You To Be Weak ]
[ When You Have A Point To Make, Than Speak ]
[ When Speaking Your Mind ]
[ Always Try To Be Kind ]
[ You Weren’t Put On This Earth To Spew Hate ]
[ Then You Can Anticipate ]
[ Your Fate ]
[ Because Ever Since Your Birth ]
[ You Have Had To Prove Your Worth ]
[ On This Earth ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
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What is the last thing you learned?
[ The Last Thing You Learned? ]
[ You Cannot Really Answer That ]
[ There Is Not A Last Thing ]
[ You Are (62yrs) Old & A College Graduate ]
[ One Important Thing That You Learned Along The Way Was If You Keep An Open Mind, You Can Learn Something New Every Day ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?
[ Your Autobiography ]
[ Your First Sentence Would Be, “I Came, I Had A Thought, Then I Wrote A Story” ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
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