What is the greatest gift someone could give you?
[ What Is The Greatest Gift Someone Could Give You? ]
[ Well There Are (2) Things That Come To Mind ]
[ 1st One Would Be Life, As In A Mother Giving Life To Her Newborn Child ]
[ 2nd Would Be Love ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
What colleges have you attended?
[ What Colleges Have You Attended? ]
[ The Fall Of ’81 You Took A Calligraphy Class @ Portland Community College (Sylvania Campus) ]
[ Fall Of ’82 You Moved All Of Your Belongings To The Most Southern School In Oregon, @ The Time It Was ‘Southern Oregon State College’, In Ashland, Oregon ]
[ You Were There For (2) Full Years, But Your Grades Dipped & So Fall Of ’84 You Enrolled @ ‘Rogue Community College’, In Grants Pass, Oregon. You Were There For (2) Terms. You Brought Your Grades Up ]
[ The Spring Of ’85 You Re-Enrolled @ “S.O.S.C.” You Finished In Spring Of ’86, But Fell Short Of Graduating ]
[ The Fall Of ’95 You Enrolled @ ‘Chemeketa Community College’ & Graduated With An “Oregon Transfer” Degree In The Spring Of ’96 ]
[ The Fall Of ’96 You Enrolled @ ‘Western Oregon University’. You Graduated In The Spring Of ’98 ]
[ No More College Education Needed After That ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?
[ What Says Playtime To You? ]
[ You Can Only Imagine What The Definition Of “Playtime” Is? ]
[ As You Age, The Definition Can Change ]
[ When You Are Young, Playtime Can Mean Pure Fun ]
[ While In Grade School, Playtime Was Time On The Playground, Getting Out All Of Your Pent Up Energy ]
[ So Playtime Depends On The Age ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
What makes you feel nostalgic?
[ What Makes You Feel Nostalgic? ]
[ It Could Be Hearing A Song ]
[ It Could Be Like A Scent ]
[ You Grew Up Playing Baseball, & The Smell Of Cut Grass In The Spring Reminds You About The Start Of The Baseball Season ]
[ The Smell Of A Perfume Will Remind You Of Someone From Your Past ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
[ Have You Ever Felt Like You Have Some Unresolved Grief ]
[ That Needs Some Closure? ]
[ But, When You Go Looking For Some Relief ]
[ Are You Afraid Of More Exposure? ]
[ Of What Has Been Bugging You About Your Past? ]
[ You Begin To Worry That Your Troubled Mind Might Last ]
[ & The Dye Might Have Been Cast ]
[ Your Troubled Event Happened Over (23yrs) Prior ]
[ Through (4) Completely Hostile Interrogations ]
[ They Always Called You A Liar ]
[ Which Led To So Many Frustrations ]
[ Lighting Your Whole Life On Fire ]
[ You Fell Into A Rabbit Hole Where You Did Not See A Way Out ]
[ All Of The Powers That Be ]
[ Wanted You To Go Home & Sit In The Dark & Pout ]
[ Wallowing About The Injustices Of Humanity ]
[ You Got To To Be Too Tired To Scream & Shout ]
[ Everytime You Looked Around ]
[ You Found ]
[ That The Whole Gravity Of The State Kept Pounding ]
[ You Into The Ground ]
[ The World Started Spinning ]
[ You Saw No End ]
[ You Never Noticed When This Mess Was Even Beginning ]
[ They Left You With Nothing Left To Defend ]
[ Nor Was There Any Chance Of Winning ]
[ What Was Left? ]
[ Going Back To A Job Where You fHad To Constantly Watch Your Step? ]
[ What Would Happen To Your Free Will? ]
[ When The Only Way Of Feeling Okay ]
[ Would Be Taking An Anxiety Pill ]
[ (3×) A Day ]
[ You Fail To See The Joy In Being A Pharmaceutical Experiment ]
[ Always Feeling Different ]
[ & Not Confident ]
[ The Event Broke You @ The Time ]
[ All Because Those (2) Male Juveniles ]
[ Wanted To Commit One More Major Crime ]
[ & Go Out In Style ]
[ You Were Never Given The Choice Of Having A Representative From The Union Stand By Your Side ]
[ They Never Gave You The Chance To Decide ]
[ Or Confide ]
[ So Afterwards There Was Nothing Left Of Your Pride! ]
[ Because Of Your Lack Of Training, Your Hope Of Figuring Things Out Were Dampened ]
[ & Hampered ]
[ Because Through The Whole History Of Being Opened ]
[ This Event Had Never Before Happened ]
[ Getting On The Right Path ]
[ Became As Complicated ]
[ As Solving Story Problems In Calculus Math ]
[ Without A Single Number Being Duplicated ]
[ Because Feeling This Lost Was Unknown Territory For You ]
[ There Was Nothing To Do ]
[ Because No One Had A Clue ]
[ About How To Keep You From Feeling So Blue ]
[ & Down On Your Luck ]
[ You Wish That It Would Have Been As Easy As Needing To Duck ]
[ So That Made Every Day Suck! ]
[ But You Persevered & Came Out On The Other End, A Much Better & Stronger Man ]
[ You No Longer Feel Like You Are Sinking In Quicksand ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
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[ Robots Are Designed To Save Time ]
[ But The Technology Can Also Be Misused ]
[ To Commit Crimes ]
[ & The Technology Will Be Abused ]
[ Being Human It Is Not About Saving ]
[ Time, It Is About How It’s Spent ]
[ It Is Not About Doing Something Good Or Misbehaving ]
[ All That Matters Is Realizing Where The Time Went ]
[ Spending Time With Others ]
[ Or Spending Time Alone ]
[ Even If You Have Sister’s Or Brother’s ]
[ Sometimes You Don’t Ever Reach Out To Them On The Phone ]
[ Being Around The Family That You Grew Up With ]
[ Doesn’t Seem To Matter Much ]
[ If They Are Not Even On Your Short Phone List ]
[ The One Good Thing About About Modern Tech ]
[ Machines Are Logical ]
[ So They Do Not Have The Ability To Talk Out Of Both Sides Of Their Neck ]
[ & It Sometimes Sounds Comical ]
[ When They Try To Hold You In Check ]
[ With The Fast Oncoming Train That AI Seems To Be ]
[ Did The Maker Of The Technology ]
[ Ever Foresee ]
[ How It Will Stop People From Thinking That They Will Ever Feel Free ]
[ Again? ]
[ Once Technology Starts Solving Problems On Its Own ]
[ Where Will This End? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
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You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?
[ What Would Your Room Look Like? ]
[ Your Room Would Have A Comfortable Colored Paint Color ]
[ It Would Have A Nice Comfortable Recliner]
[ You Would Also Have A Comfortable Couch ]
[ An “Alexa” In The Corner Playing Whatever Music You Would Be In The Mood For ]
[ It Could Be Country, Rap, Funk, ’80’s, ’90’s Or Mainstream ]
[ It Would Have A Dog Bed In The Corner With Dog Toys On The Floor ]
[ It Would Have Cupboards On One Wall ]
[ With Snacks For Yourself & Snacks For Your Dog ]
[ You Would Have A Full Refrigerator With Drinks & Snacks ]
[ You Would Have A “Do Not Disturb” Sign On The Door ]
[ The Main Thing You Would Want In This Room Would Be Anything That Would Make For A Calm Atmosphere With Zero Distractions ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
How are you creative?
[ How Are You Creative? ]
[ You Feel That The Only Way That You Are Creative Is Through Your Writing ]
[ You Don’t Paint Or Do Anything On The Creative Scale ]
[ You Are Not Creative With Your Cooking ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
[ It Is With A Heavy Heart ]
[ That You Must Say ]
[ Something Is Going To Happen In The Next Hour That Is Tearing Your Insides Apart ]
[ In (100) Different Ways ]
[ You Wouldn’t Be Lying ]
[ If You Were To Say Each Day In The Last Couple Of Weeks ]
[ Your Dog Started Dying ]
[ Little By Little & Pound By Pound ]
[ You Found ]
[ That Something Inside Of Her Was Killing Her, But She Never Made A Sound ]
[ You Never Knew What Kind Of Trauma She Went Through ]
[ Before She Ever Set A Paw Down In Your House ]
[ It Is So Cruel What Some People Do ]
[ But Even Through Her Abuse, She Probably Stayed As Quiet As A Small Field Mouse ]
[ It Probably Wasn’t A Voluntary Choice ]
[ For Her To Not Use Her Voice ]
[ You Have No Idea What Happened When She Used To Bark ]
[ Maybe She Was Punished Because A Past Owner Thought That When She Did It Only Sounded Like Noise ]
[ That Owner Told You That Roxie Was (5yrs) Old ]
[ When You Later Took Her To The ‘Vet ]
[ You Found Out Her Age Was Closer To (8), You Felt That Last Owner Was Really Bold ]
[ Because Lying To You To Get Rid Of Roxie, Was Pretty Cold ]
[ The Night That You Got Her, She Never Even Made The Slightest Sound ]
[ Because You Did Not Hear Anything When You Got Up In The Middle Of The Night ]
[ You Thought You Would Look Around ]
[ You Really Wondered Where Your New Dog Would Be Found ]
[ It Did Not Take You Long To Find Her, But You Were Astonished @ The Sight ]
[ She Was Curled Up On Your Recliner Chair ]
[ In A Deep ]
[ Sleep! ]
[ That Was Where You Usually Sat, But She Seemed To Not Care ]
[ Or Maybe She Actually Did ]
[ Maybe That Was The Point ]
[ You Smiled Like A Little Kid ]
[ You Actually Wondered If She Jumped Up & Went To Sleep Because That Was Where You Were Sitting When The (2) Of You Met? ]
[ You Actually Wondered, “How Much Better Can This New Situation Get?” ]
[ If You Were To Wager That It Wouldn’t ]
[ The Other Person Would Still Be Laughing Because You Would Really Lose That Bet ]
[ You Shouldn’t ]
[ Have Thought That She Did Not Want To Sleep Some Place Where She Could FINALLY Have A Peaceful Rest ]
[ & She Couldn’t ]
[ Have Figured Out The Place That Was Best? ]
[ You Failed To See ]
[ @ The Time ]
[ That She Already Figured Out Who She Wanted Her Person To Be ]
[ It Would Have Also Been A Crime ]
[ If She Did Not Also Feel Free ]
[ Free From ANY Abuse ]
[ Free From ANY Bad Excuse ]
[ Free From ANY Adult Being Around Her That Was Very Obtuse ]
[ About Why She Got Hit, Shocked Or Given A Hard Kick ]
[ The Thought About The Amount Of Abuse She Might Have Suffered ]
[ Really Made Your Stomach Sick ]
[ One Thing That You Are Sure ]
[ Roxie Was The Sweetest, Friendliest, Quietest Animal With Fur ]
[ She Was So Quiet ]
[ & Her Heart Was Pure ]
[ That Owner Was In A Hurry To Put Her In A Different Home ]
[ She Told You That We Could Have Her For A (3) Night Trial Basis ]
[ You Knew That It Would Take Awhile Before Her True Personality Would Be Shown ]
[ Alot Of Things About Her Past Was Unknown ]
[ So That Owner Left, After Telling You To Text Her On The Phone ]
[ (2) Days Later You Text That Owner To Let Her Know ]
[ That We Wanted Roxie To Stay ]
[ That We Never Wanted To Let Her Go ]
[ Once She Started To Feel Comfortable Her Personality Came Out ]
[ There Was Not A Single Doubt ]
[ That She Never Would Sit Around & Pout ]
[ Again ]
[ Because It Would Have Been A Sin ]
[ If You Did Not Show When The Love Would Begin ]
[ Everynight You Would Give Her Daddy Time & Get Down With Her On The Floor ]
[ You Wouldn’t Stop ]
[ Even If There Was A Knock On The Door ]
[ But Everything Changed When You Were In The Hospital To Have Surgery On Your Spine ]
[ Roxie Started To Become Ill ]
[ So Your Wife Told You, “No, Everything Is Not Fine” ]
[ Roxie Was Getting Sick After Eating ]
[ But Nothing Had Changed With Her Feedings ]
[ Since She Wouldn’t Make A Sound, You Never Knew What She Was Feeling ]
[ Getting This News Felt So Defeating ]
[ We Then Took Her To The ‘Vet ]
[ For Some Blood Work & Other Tests ]
[ Everything Began To Get Hazy ]
[ The Tests Came Back Fine ]
[ But She Kept Losing Weight Like Crazy ]
[ The ‘Vet Said There Was Nothing They Could Do ]
[ Your Fear Grew ]
[ Because Nobody Had A Clue ]
[ When She Stopped Eating All Together ]
[ & She Became As Light As A Feather ]
[ Her Weight Was The Lightest Ever ]
[ You Made The Hardest Call To The ‘Vet To Make That Dreaded Appointment ]
[ Because Roxie’s Energy Level Was So Spent ]
[ It Was Like Roxie Knew What This Meant ]
[ When We Took Roxie To The ‘Vet, She Was So Lethargic ]
[ & Sick ]
[ You Wish The ‘Vet Had Some Kind Of Trick ]
[ From Which She Could Pick ]
[ To Make Roxie Feel All Better, But That Was Not To Be ]
[ When We All Went Into A Room ]
[ The ‘Vet Could See ]
[ & It Became The Hardest Decision We Could Make ]
[ This Would Be The Last Time That You Would Ever See Roxie Awake ]
[ Roxie Laid Down On The Blanket ]
[ Because She Felt So Tired ]
[ & She Looked Like She Was Set ]
[ You Knew That It Is So Hard To Say Goodbye To A Loving Pet ]
[ We Were Only Able To Have Her (9mo’s) ]
[ This Was Ripping Out Your Guts ]
[ When The ‘Vet Mentioned Cheese ]
[ She Raised Her Head Off The Blanket Then Went To Her Knees ]
[ She Looked @ The ‘Vet As If Saying, “Oh, Yes Please!” ]
[ That Caused Everyone In The Room To Laugh ]
[ That Really Cut The Tension In The Room In ½ ]
[ The ‘Vet Came In & Gave Her The Shot That Made Her Go To Sleep For The Last Time ]
[ So This Is Where You Have To End This Rhyme ]
[ We All Love You Roxie! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe
~ Aloha ~
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Share what you know about the year you were born.
[ Share What You Know About The Year You Were Born? ]
[ One Of The Main Events That Happened In 1963 Was The November 22nd Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy ]
[ Who Knew That In (19yrs) You Would Become So Fascinated With Everything That Has To Do With The Life & Tragic Death Of JFK. That Year In College You Would Begin Your Book Collection Of Anything That Had Been Written About JFK. Your Collection Is Over (175) Books & Growing! ]
[ Another Event That Occurred Was Martin Luther King Jr’s Iconic “I Have A Dream” Speech, During His March On Washington D.C. ]
[ The Civil Rights Movement Was Also During This Year ]
[ There Was The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Which Killed (4) Girls, In Birmingham, Alabama ]
[ There Was Also The 1st Female Astronaut, Soviet Cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, In Space ]
[ With Jomo Kenyatta As Prime Minister, Kenya Became An Independent Republic ]
[ JFK Called For Civil Rights Legislation ]
[ Bell System Introduced The 1st Push Button Telephone ]
[ This Saw The Rise Of Bob Dylan As A Significant Voice ]
[ The Beatles Band Rose To Fame In The U.K. ]
[ The U.S., U.K. & The USSR Signed The Partial Test Ban Treaty ]
[ Alot Happened Before & After My Birth In June Of 1963 ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
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