Category: [ Daily Prompt ]

(001)▪︎[ Describe Myself … 2025 ]

How would you describe yourself to someone?

[ I Guess I Would Call Myself An Aquired Taste ]

[ Take The Time To Get To Know Me ]

[ Don’t Leave En Haste ]

[ Hopefully You Will See ]

[ That The Time Spent, Was Not A Waste ]

[ I Will Give You Cause ]

[ To Pause ]

[ For A Little Personal Introspection ]

[ Not Persecution ]

[ There Is So Little Time For A Specific Description ]

[ I Definitely Side With The Non-Fiction ]

[ I Try Not To Always Live In Fantasy Land ]

[ Even Though There Is A Little Bit Of Disneyland ]

[ In All Of Us ]

(001)▪︎[ Modern Society … 2025 ]

What would you change about modern society?

[ I Feel The ‘VID’19 Was The Worst Thing To Happen To Our Society As A Whole ]

[ Nobody Trusts Anyone ]

[ We Are A Very Fractured Society ]

[ People Grouping & Labeling Others ]

[ By Gender, Sexual Preference, Race, Heritage, Politics, Religious Beliefs … ]

[ To Some, We Are No Longer Male Or Female Because They Want That Line Blurred. Like Washing Away The Line That Was Drawn In The Sand. ]

[ People Labeling You A Republican Or A Democrat. That Is NOT What People Are, That Is The Political Party That They Vote For ]

[ Everyone Wants To Be An Individual, On An Island. No Longer Part Of Anything. People Marking “Other” On Forms ]

[ But Then Wanting To Be Treated As An Equal, But Then Equal To Who. People Want To Be So Different Than Others, Then They Don’t ]

(001)▪︎[ What Foods? … 2025 ]

What foods would you like to make?

[ I Love Making Meatloaf With My Wife ]

[ I Am A Good Single Person Cook. I Like To Experiment With Food As Long As I Am Going To Be The Only One Eating What I Have Made ]

[ The Reason? I Don’t Want To Make Anybody Else Sick! ]

[ I Like To Add A Pinch Of “This” & Alot More Of “That” ]

[ If I Make Myself Sick Then I Hope That I Remember The Feeling Next Time I Want To Cook Whatever Made Me Sick ]

[ My Beautiful Wife Is An Awesome Cook & I Love Most Everything She Makes! I Think I’ve Asked Her About (3) Times To Not Make A Specific Food Again. I Am Just Thankful After Almost (30) Years Of Marriage She Still Cooks For Me! ]

[ I Love To Bake ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(001)▪︎[ Security … 2025 ]

Are you seeking security or adventure?

[ I Think, As I Age ]

[ & I Turn Another Page ]

[ My Main Priority ]

[ Would Be Physical & Financial Security ]

[ I Choose To Live Out The Rest Of My Life]

[ In The Arms Of My Beautiful Wife ]

[ We Met In The Early Summer Of 1994 ]

[ Once I Saw Her Inner Beauty Standing In Front Of My Apartment Door ]

[ I Asked Her If I Could Please See Her More ]

[ In March Of 1996 We Got Married In Her Catholic Church ]

[ I Was Surprised That The Was Did Not Bleed When I Stood Up Front ]

[ The Vows Did Not Hurt ]

[ & It Did Not Feel Like A Kick In The Butt ]

[ I Still Wear My Wedding Ring Proudly ]

[ Always Tell My I Love Her Rather Loudly ]

[ Security Is A Must ]

[ Security Takes Alot Of Trust ]

Mahalo nui loa,

Lopaka DeVoe

(001)▪︎[ Dinner … 2025 ]

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

[ The Very First Person I Would Invite Would Be My Biological Father. He Committed Suicide Before My 3rd Birthday. I Never Got Time To Know Him ]

[ I Would Invite My Brother, Who Passed Away Before The ‘VID’19 Shut Everything Down. We Had A Trip Planned To See Him & His Daughter, But He Died (2) Weeks Before Our Trip. He Was Not Ill, He Died In His Sleep, He Was Only 55yrs Old. We Were Separated As Infants, But My Wife Tracked Him Down Living In North Carolina, In 1996. The Trip That Was Planned Would Have Only Been The 2nd Time Seeing Each Other As Adults ]

[ The Third Person I Would Invite Would Be My Sister. We Stuck Together Through All Of The Trials Of Our Mother’s Physical Abuse, Our Father’s Suicide In Front Of Us, 2 Abusive Foster Homes & The Ups & Downs Of Growing Up. We Were Not Quite A Year Apart In Age. Things Changed In Middle School Though. I Had Always Been Involved In Sports & She Got Involved With The Wrong People. She Chose Drugs Over Life. Homelessness Over Stability. Being Arrested Over Staying Calm ]

[ The Fourth Person I Would Invite Would Be My Loving Wife Of Almost 30yrs. Of Course She Would Go, She Has Been My Best Friend & Partner For Over 31yrs ]

[ No One Else, Though ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~