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 ~
What’s something most people don’t understand?
[ What Don’t Most People Don’t Understand? ]
[ That’s Simple … Each Other ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
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 ~
What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
[ What Experience Caused You The Most Growth? ]
[ You Would Have To Say What Happened In February, 1982 ]
[ Don Told You That He Is Giving You (2) Weeks To Move Out ]
[ You Were Not Ready For That, But You Were Pretty Calm About It ]
[ You Did Not Know How To Fend For Yourself, Because You Were Never Told To ]
[ You Turned (18yrs) Old In June Of 1981 ]
[ The Move Really Caused You To Grow Up & Do Everything On Your Own ]
[ No More Parental Help ]
[ You Told Yourself, “If You Won’t Do It, Nobody Will” ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
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 ~
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
[ The Most Item I Ever Purchased ]
[ The Most Expensive Is Marriage ]
[ But … Worth Every Single Penny That Has Been Spent During It! ]
[ (29yrs) & Counting ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
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 ~
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 ~
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