[ Breathe, Breathe Slowly, Breathe ]
[ Get Up The Courage To Believe ]
[ In The Dr.’s ]
[ So You Won’t Have The Urge To Get Up &
Leave ]
[ Find Strength & Bend @ The Hips ]
[ As You Keep, A Stiff Upper Lip ]
[ Don’t Shed A Tear ]
[ In Fear ]
[ Just Know That You Are In Good Space ]
[ While You Are Here ]
[ Have The Confidence ]
[ To Figure Out The Diffrrence ]
[ Between The Reasons To Stay ]
[ & The Reasons To Get Up & Walk Away ]
[ What Are The Reasons That Sound Any Good? ]
[ What Are The Ways ]
[ That Could Be Misunderstood? ]
[ Can Those Reasons Be Found In A Reasonable Time? ]
[ Will They Be As Obvious ]
[ As The Difference Between A Lemon & A Lime ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2020 Stories ]
(1158)▪︎[ New Years Eve … 12•31•2020 ]
[ Happy New Years To Me, Happy New Years To Me ]
[ I Do Not See ]
[ How Much Worse This Night Could Be ]
[ I Am Laid Up With A Bad Back ]
[ & I Am Sitting On The Bed ]
[ Leaning On A Cold Ice Pack ]
[ BD Is Being Taken To Urgent Care ]
[ So That Means Everyone Else Went There ]
[ In About 5½ More Hours This Horrible Year
Will Be Gone ]
[ Is That A Sign That We All Can Move On? ]
[ If People Think That The Pandemic Will End, They Are
Oh So Wrong ]
[ Whenever The News Talks About The Days Totals That
Have Died ]
[ It Sure Looks Like The Virus Is Still Going Strong ]
[ Millions Of People Think That We All Have Been Saved ]
[ I Just Do Not Think So ]
[ Because Alot Of Society Never Behaved ]
[ Always Be Ready For The Next Great Moment ]
[ Big Or Small ]
[ Just Don’t Make A Stupid Comment ]
[ That Ruins It All ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1123)▪︎[ Not A Clue … 12•18•2020 ]
[ Will There Be Any Clues? ]
[ If The Incoming Year Of 2021 ]
[ Will Bring Us ANY Good News? ]
[ 2020 Is Ending With Me Having Another Surgery On My
Left Foot ]
[ The Past Fire Season Here In Oregon ]
[ Left Most Of Our State Covered With Ashes
& Soot ]
[ The Fires In Oregon This Past Year Were So Bad ]
[ It Was The Very Worst Fire Season That Oregon Ever Had ]
[ 2020 Was A Very Very Hard Year ]
[ In 2020 There Were Alot Of Tears ]
[ Causing So Much Fear ]
[ Lots Of People Consumed Many Beers ]
[ Around Every Corner There Seemed To Be An Argument
In The Making ]
[ Whenever I Was Showing That I Was Unhappy ]
[ I Was Not Faking ]
[ Faking Things Is Not What I Normally Do ]
[ I Would Not Like This To Be Done To Me, Too ]
[ What Else Could Happen Before This Year Ends? ]
[ Will Someone Send Me A ( DEAR JOHN ) Text ]
[ Because They No Longer Want To Be Friends? ]
[ That Would Just Be About My Luck ]
[ If I Was To Try To Throw Luck Around To Others ]
[ It Would Look Like A Wounded Duck ]
[ Somehow There Must Be A Correction ]
[ Because ( MURPHY’s LAW ) ]
[ Works Twice Against Me When Thrown In My Direction ]
[ That Was Told To Me Me By A Friend Of A Friend
A Couple Of Decades Ago ]
[ When I Was Told I Said Three Words ]
[ ( YES, I KNOW ) ]
[ So I Don’t Even Try ]
[ & You May Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Then I Would Say ( GO ASK THAT OTHER GUY ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1138)▪︎[ Happy 12•25 To All … 12•24•2020 ]
[ Here I Stand On Another December 25th Celebrating The
Day ]
[ When I Asked Nicole The Biggest, Most Important Question
That I Had Ever Asked ]
[ & She Answered With An ( EH, OKAY ) ]
[ Well Actually She Did Not Answer Me @ That Time ]
[ So Instead, She Gave Me Tears ]
[ Maybe Because She Saw How Big Of A Mountain This Would
Be To Climb ]
[ So This Will Be Our 27th, December 25th Together ]
[ In Marriage, Things Sometimes Change As Fast As The
Oregon Weather ]
[ This Years December 25th Will Be Different Because I Am
Enjoying The Company Of Two New Friends ]
[ Friends & Family Means So Much More To Me Than
Others Can Comprehend ]
[ My Circle Is As Small ]
[ As I Am Tall ]
[ But … I Do Not Mind That @ All ]
[ Z., You Came Into My Life On The 29th Of May ]
[ Maria Stopped Being My Cargiver 4 Days Earlier ]
[ Much To My Dismay ]
[ Because I Had No Say ]
[ For Things To Turn Out That Way ]
[ So When I Opened My Door & Met You, Z. ]
[ I Really Wondered If You Would Be ]
[ Patient Enough ]
[ To Take Care Of Me? ]
[ I Think It Took One Shift To Find Out ]
[ That You Could Walk ]
[ The Talk ]
[ Because You Were Definitely As Good As Her Agency
Talked About ]
[ So Z, Tag, You Are It ]
[ When I Wanted Someone To Fit ]
[ You Come Into My House 4 Days A Week ]
[ & You Have NEVER Complained One Little Bit ]
[ Also Since Day One You Talked About This
Incredible, Hard Working & Respectful Man ]
[ I am Usually Kind Of A Very Private Guy ]
[ But Right Away, Big M., I Became Your Biggest Fan ]
[ The Way That Z. Talked About You ]
[ & Talked About The Things That You Do ]
[ I Decided That I Had To Meet This Guy ]
[ & Have My Own Point Of View ]
[ Through My Own Two Eyes ]
[ So Far, So Good ]
[ & The Things That You Are & Have Been Going Through ]
[ Are 100% Understood ]
[ I Feel You Protect Me Through Your Thoughts ]
[ & I Thank You Lots ]
[ I Am Always Here For You To Give You Much
Needed Advice ]
[ I Will Be Brutally Honest ]
[ Even If It Doesn’t Come Across As Being Nice ]
[ Big M & Z. You Have Become Important In My Life ]
[ Thank You For Taking Time Out Of Your Day ]
[ To Spend Some Time Here With Me, My Son & My Wife ]
[ I Root For You Two Making It More Than Any Other
Couple I’ve Known ]
[ Except, Of Course, My Own ]
[ Staying Together Is Very, Very Hard To Do ]
[ Always Tell Each Other ( I LOVE YOU ) ]
[ When They Are Going To Be Out Of Your View ]
[ You Can Never Feel It, Say It, Mean It Or Hear It
Too Much ]
[ Say It With A Warm & Loving Touch ]
[ Reach Out ]
[ When There’s Doubt ]
[ Care ]
[ & Share ]
[ Always Be There ]
[ Anytime ]
[ From Anywhere ]
[ Friends & Family Really IS What Makes The World Go
Around ]
[ Because I Have Found ]
[ They Are The Ones That Help Keep ]
[ My Feet ]
[ Firmly Planted On The Ground! ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1134)▪︎[ One Hard Year … 12•23•2020 ]
[ When Will The Year 2020 Give Us Good News? ]
[ If The Year Was Set To Music ]
[ It Would Definitely Be Someone Singing The Blues ]
[ The Year Started With A Bang But It Sure Is Ending
With A Whimper ]
[ If This Was A Cinderella Movie ]
[ She Would Never Be Able To Find Her Slipper ]
[ Or Was It A Brand New ]
[ Shoe? ]
[ It Started Out Being Made Of Gold ]
[ But Because This Year Had Been A Year Of Death & Sickness ]
[ That Missing Shoe Would Be Torn Up & Old ]
[ Year 2020 Had Alot More Downs Than Ups ]
[ There Were So Many Mountains To Climb ]
[ & Long Roads Laden With Bumps ]
[ A Bumpy Ride Would Be Putting It Mildly ]
[ Getting Better By The 1st Of The Year ]
[ Will Be Highly ]
[ Unlikely ]
[ Some Say That This Vaccine Is Like The Lone Ranger Riding
In, To Save The Day ]
[ Others Don’t Think So ]
[ Because Most Of Society Won’t Change Their Ways ]
[ Far Too Many People Only Care About Themselves ]
[ & Refuse To Wear A Mask ]
[ Even After They’ve Been Nicely Asked ]
[ To Help Save Someone Else ]
[ 2020 Has Brought Out The Selfish Side In Some ]
[ Okay, Many ]
[ The Many Reasons They Follow A False Messiah Is So Dumb ]
[ It Is Uncanny ]
[ Those People Will Never Listen To Reason ]
[ All That Some Of Them Care About Right Now ]
[ Will Be The Bowl Winners Of This Years College Football
Season ]
[ To A Man ]
[ They Would Never Reach Out Their Hand ]
[ To Help A Stranger ]
[ Because Their Head Has Been Buried In The Sand ]
[ Good Times In 2020 Have Been Very Lean ]
[ Good Times This Past Year ]
[ Have Been Very Few & Far In-Between ]
[ So After The Year 2020 Is All Done ]
[ Hope Is All We Have ]
[ For The Incoming Year, Of 2021 ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(1116)▪︎[ What Is Eternal? … 12•16•2020 ]
[ When People Say ( HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL ) What Do They
Really Mean? ]
[ Are They Putting Their Faith ]
[ Into Something That Is Sight Unseen? ]
[ How Much Is Faith Worth? ]
[ Do People Always Have To Have Faith Only When Their
Circumstances Could ]
[ Should ]
[ Or Would ]
[ Get Worse? ]
[ Nobody Wants Things To Get Worse By Any Means ]
[ It Could Be As Detrimental To Some ]
[ As Having An Anaphylactic Shock Reaction After Eating
Some Beans ]
[ Being Killed Would Be The Very Worse, Of Course ]
[ You Never Want Your Last Ride Through Town ]
[ Being The Only Passenger In The Back Of A Hearse ]
[ But Some Say Having Hope Is A Terrible Thing
To Count On ]
[ Alot Of Life Can Go By ]
[ By The Time All Of Your Hope Is Gone ]
[ You Can’t Physically Hold Hope In The Palm Of
Your Hand ]
[ Is Relying On Hope Like Burying Your Head In The Sand? ]
[ Not Working Towards Anything ]
[ But Expecting Something ]
[ To Happen ]
[ But When? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1040 ][ Before The Day Is Done … 12•10•2020 ]
[ Every Day, You Have The Choice Of Whether To
Laugh Or Cry @ Night ]
[ The Choice Makes All Of The Difference ]
[ When It Comes To Facing The Morning Light ]
[ One May Make You Tired & One Could Put Your
Mind @ Rest ]
[ Depending On The Circumstances ]
[ Sometimes It Would Be Hard To Figure Out Which
Emotion Would Be The Best ]
[ Sometimes Circumstances In Your Life Are Completely
Out Of Your Control ]
[ & There Are Incidents That Occur That Can
Hurt You ]
[ Like It Puts A Hole ]
[ In Your Soul ]
[ Those Are The Ones That You Do Not Want To
Remember ]
[ But Sometimes An Incident That Happens In Early
January ]
[ Can Still Be Fresh In Your Mind Through The 31st
Of The Next December ]
[ @ Times Your Heart May Forgive But Your Mind
Will Not Let ]
[ Your Memory To Ever Forget ]
[ Those Are The Times ]
[ When You Wonder What That Saying That Combines
The Two Ever Meant ]
[ When Your Soul Hurts ]
[ Your Mind Will Search ]
[ For Something To Help You Heal ]
[ Anything That Even Remotely Seems Real ]
[ Then, Something Good To Make You Feel ]
[ Whole Again ]
[ But You Can Never Control When ]
[ That Will Ever Begin ]
[ When You Feel Knocked Down ]
[ Don’t Have A Meltdown ]
[ While On The Ground ]
[ Up Is The Only Direction To Go ]
[ Even If You Have To Take It Slow ]
[ Just Know ]
[ That You Must Always Get Back Up ]
[ Don’t Breakup ]
[ Burnup ]
[ Or Give Up ]
[ No, Stand Up ]
[ After You Fall ]
[ Then Give It Your All ]
[ Before You Make The Call ]
[ To Call It A Day ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1034 ][ What Is The New Normal? … 12•8•2020 ]
[ Can We Ever Get Back To The Life That
We All Used To Remember? ]
[ The ‘VID Quarantined Us In March ]
[ Now Look, It Is The 2nd Week Into December ]
[ Something, Anything Close To Being Back To Normal ]
[ Nothing Too Fancy ]
[ But Something Less Formal ]
[ We Have Been Relegated To Get-Togethers Through
Pre-Determined Zoom Calls ]
[ While Getting Seriously Bored ]
[ Staring @ The Same 4 Walls ]
[ Seeing The Same People Day After Day ]
[ We Do & Still Love Each Other ]
[ & We Still Hear What Each Other Wants To Say ]
[ But Oh Brother ]
[ Have We’ve Been Getting In Each Other’s Way ]
[ There Are No New People To Meet ]
[ There Are No New Places To Eat ]
[ It Is Always The Same Kind Of Food ]
[ & We Can’t Leave When Someone Gets In A Mood ]
[ That Ends Up Changing ]
[ Their Behavior & Attitude ]
[ Even When We Do Go Out In Public, We Have To Plan
To Keep The Destinations Quick From ( A ) To ( B ) ]
[ No More Spontaneous Trips To ( D ) Or ( C ) ]
[ It Sucks To Have To Put A Cork In The Spontaneity ]
[ Bottle ]
[ & Ease Off The Throttle ]
[ Then Shift Out Of Drive ]
[ Into Neutral ]
[ So We All Can Stay Alive ]
[ By Not Going Out & Getting The ‘Vid ]
[ So Someone Won’t To Tell The Neighbors ]
[ ( HEY, DID YOU HEAR WHAT SID ) ]
[ ( DID? ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1030 ][ It Is A Belly Button Itch … 12•6•2020 ]
So Just Now I Woke Up Dark. What Made Me Sneeze Was The Smell Of The Alarm Clock Barking. That Woke Nicole Up Because She Stopped Running, Looked @ Her Ankle Wondering Why It Sounded Like Half A Banana Peel. So I Laid Sideways, Rolled Uphill When The Clock On The Floor Meyowed. I Threw Water On The Couch, Then I Opened Up The Refrigerator. I Was Sweating Numb When I Smelled The Cola-BunnyBeer. Than I Saw One Pair Of Van’s, Two Pairs Of Socks, One Bright Steak Undershirt ( SIZE SMALL ) Just Standing There On The Bottom Button Singing X-Rays. I Thought ( OH THAT IS WHERE THEY LANDED AFTER TAKING AN ÜBER HOME FROM SINGING @ THE CLOTHING LAB ) Sew I Shook Salt On My Right Foot. Grabbed A Frying Pan From The 3rd Drawer Down In The Toy Box That Was Submerged On The Roof. Not The 2nd Closet That Was In The Bathtub Boiling Eggs. I Like My Eggs Boiled Until The Ice Falls Off Into The Bedroom Faucet. But The Eggs Must Be Milked Until The Number ‘J’ Says It Is … So One More Word About Hair. Good Boy. My Meds Must Be Shined ‘6’ Two Swimming Pools To The Up. Up Is Kind Of … Yes. If New Knew, It Wasn’t New, Would The Un-New Who Knew, Would That Be Old News, To The Sevens That Knew? Would Yellow Actually Be The Only One That No’s? If Somebody Raised Their Grapes Are They Trying To Grow Hair? Just A Couple Of Things That Make Your Belly Button Itch.
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 1021 ][ They Are All Wrong … 12•4•2020 ]
[ Are You Looking For Friends In All The Wrong
Places ]
[ While Looking For Love In All The Wrong Faces ]
[ Not Being Very Wise ]
[ & Over Looking The Blank Look In Their Eyes ]
[ Then Listening ]
[ & Believing Their Lies ]
[ Lies, Lies, Lies Is All They Tell ]
[ They Have Been Doing This For So Long ]
[ They Do It Really Well ]
[ Because It Is So Wrong ]
[ The Lies That You Hear Have Their Own Distinctive
Smell ]
[ Soon Seeing, That After You First Met ]
[ They Had Their Hand In Your Back Pocket ]
[ Dead Set ]
[ On Trying To Grab Your Wallet ]
[ Leaving You Looking High & Low ]
[ For Some Kind Of Show ]
[ Of Reciprocation On Their Part ]
[ Of Wanting To Share Their Heart ]
[ The Cold Look In Their Eyes Speaks Volumes
Without Making A Sound ]
[ Whenever You Attempt To Make Eye Contact ]
[ They Are Looking @ The Ground ]
[ & You Will Find It Is A Fact ]
[ When They Don’t Come Around ]
[ Being The Type Of Girl Or Guy ]
[ Trying To Get By ]
[ In Life ]
[ By Never Looking @ You Eye To Eye ]
[ So In The End ]
[ It Should not Take A Blow To Your Head ]
[ To Figure Out Or See ]
[ That Deep Down Inside Of Them, Their Soul Is Dead ]
[ It Is Like They Want To Say ]
[ That They Do Not Have Love For You In Their Heart ]
[ In The Most Basic Way ]
[ & That Is Their Way Of Saying ]
[ That They Do Not Want To Be Staying ]
[ Unless You Are Monetarily Paying ]
[ & You Will Quickly Realize ]
[ That Kind Of Game Is Not Worth Playing ]
[ Will You Ever Notice That They Constantly Come
To You Looking For A Handout? ]
[ & When You Leave Them Empty Handed ]
[ They Will Stand There & Pout? ]
[ If You Continue To Hear Them Lie ]
[ That Should Be Your Cue ]
[ To Say Your Goodbye ]
[ Because, They Will Continue To Try To Use You ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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