Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive?
[ It Depends On Why It Is Called A Lazy Day ]
[ I Am Home On Permanent Disability ]
[ If I Wanted To, Or Was Not Careful, Everyday Could Turn Into A Lazy & Unproductive Day ]
[ I Try To Write SOMETHING, Every Single Day ]
[ Unless I Am In The Hospital ]
[ The Year 2025 Was Not A Good Year, Health Wise ]
[ An Unproductive Day, Would Be One When I Could Not Write ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
When you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why?
[ There Have Been Alot Of People Who Were Regular People That Became Successful ]
[ Bill Gates & Paul Allen Come To Mind ]
[ They Became Successful By Simply Collaborating On An Idea & Went For It & Created Microsoft ]
[ Phil Knight Became Successful When He Was A College Student Running Track For The University of Oregon ]
[ A College Kid That Had A Dream & Combined His Ideas With His UofO Track Coach & Created Nike ]
[ Mark Cuban Was A College Student Who Combined Ideas With His Friends To Become Successful
[ Damon John Came Up With The Idea For FUBU & Became Successful Building A Clothing Empire ]
[ My Powerlifting Coach Terry L. Was A Very Successful Coach. Our Team Started Out As A Core Team Of About (8) Of Us Lifters. The Team Grew To Over (15). We Then Had Maybe Over (9) Of Us Become World Champions & World Record Holders In Our Federation ]
[ The Lifter’s That Reached That Pinnacle Were Successful ]
[ Becoming Successful Can Take Alot Of Time, Hard Work, Sacrifices & Oftentimes Money ]
[ Very Few People Are Overnight Success’s ]
[ Everyone Has Something In Them That They Might Be Good @ ]
[ Take The Idea, Dream, Work Hard & Try, Fail, Try, Fail & Keep Trying Until You Feel Like You Are Succeeding ]
[ Everywhere You Look There Are Successful People In All Different Fields ]
[ Making Money Is Not The Only Guage Of What Makes Someone Successful ]
[ Having An Idea & Working Towards It Until You Are A Success To Yourself, Makes Someone Successful ]
[ Some People Are Never Happy With What They Do Or Have Done ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
What makes a good neighbor?
[ A Good Neighbor Usually Leaves You Alone ]
[ He Doesn’t Invade Your Privacy ]
[ By Using A Drone ] …
[ When You Drive By Him While He Is Working In His Yard ]
[ He Waves Because He Is Friendly & Nice ]
[ During The Winter, He Works Really Hard ]
[ Using His Shovel On The Sidewalk, Clearing Away The Snow & The Ice ] …
[ He Barbecues All Year Long ]
[ & It Smells Really Good ]
[ He Knows That He Can’t Go Wrong ]
[ When He Barbecues For The Whole Neighborhood ] …
[ He Is Generous To A Fault ]
[ When You Knock On His Door ]
[ To Ask Him For Some Sugar Or Salt ] …
[ He Keeps His Eye On Your Property Whenever You & Your Family Are Out Exploring Other Towns ]
[ When You Meet Him ]
[ You Would Definitely Agree With His Pronoun’s ] …
[ He Is Just One Regular Guy ]
[ He Won’t Ever Steal Your Mail Or Newspaper ]
[ & He Bakes A Wonderful Apple Pie ] …
[ Everyone Around You Lives A Quiet & Comfortable Life ]
[ They Are Nice To Your Kids ]
[ & Nobody Tries To Covet Your Wife ] …
[ A Good Neighbor Will Always Care ]
[ If They Happen To Buy The Winning Megabucks Ticket, They Better Share ]
[ Because If They Won’t ]
[ You Will Become Their Worst Kind Of Nightmare! ] …
[ A Worst Neighbor They Would Never Find ]
[ Because You Would Become The Kind ]
[ That Would Mess With Their Mind ] …
[ As A Neighborly Rule ]
[ Nobody Will Treat You Like A Fool ]
[ When They Come To Their Senses & Start To Share, Then Everything Would Go Back To Being Cool ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?
[ Well I Feel Like There Is A Huge Difference Of Feeling/Being/Acting Mature & Feeling Like A Grown Up ]
[ I Feel Like I Am & Act Mature ]
[ I Don’t Want To Feel Like A Grown Up ]
[ For Me To Feel Like A Grown Up I Feel Like I Would Be Giving Up That Youthful, Playful Side Of Me ]
[ I Am 62yrs. Young ]
[ Do Not Dress Like A Grown Up! ]
[ I Wear Shorts Year Round ]
[ I Wear Vans, Adidas Shoes & Merrill Boots ]
[ T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Hooded Sweatshirts, Adidas Socks, Baseball Hats ]
[ I Shave My Head, Instead Of Being In Denial When My Hair Starts Thinning ]
[ I Will Never Be Doing That Horrible Looking Comb Over Style. No Hair Clubs For Me ]
[ No Slacks, Cardigans Or Black Socks ]
[ I Listen To Old & New Music ]
[ I Appreciate The Youthful Side Of Thinking & Life ]
[ If You Look, Act, Or Want To Be Different, Good For You ]
[ Don’t Let Anyone Paint, Or Mold You Into A Box Of What Someone Wants You To Be Like ]
[ I Live By The Saying, “You Do You” ]
[ My Parents Were The Grown Ups In My Life. I Don’t EVER Want To Be Like They Were. No ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
[ Honestly … I Would Put It In My Will That My Wife Will Get It ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
What’s something you would attempt if you were guaranteed not to fail.
[ I Would Love To Teach High School Boys & Girls How To Lift Weights ]
[ I Am (62) Years Old, So I Am Very Old School When It Comes To Weight Lifting ]
[ When I Was In The 5th Grade I Asked My Parents For A Weight Set For Christmas ]
[ I Followed The Instructions & Taught Myself How To Lift Weights ]
[ I Lifted In Gyms When I Was Old Enough ]
[ In ’94 I Joined A Powerlifting Bench Press Team ]
[ ’99 Was My First Time @ The World Championship For Our Federation ]
[ I Competed In The 165lbs Police/Fire Division ]
[ I Took Home 1st Place Trophies In ’99, ‘2000, & 2001 ]
[ I Would Teach Proper Form FIRST! ]
[ Teach Them That When Learning Proper Form You Start Out With Light Weights ]
[ Then & Only Then You Start Lifting Heavier ]
[ When You Lift With Bad Form/Technique You Risk Injury ]
[ After Teaching Weight Lifting, I Would Coach Them & Love Watching Them Succeed ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
[ Writing Poetic Stories ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
What would you do if you lost all your possessions?
[ The First Thing That I Would Do If I Lost All Of My Possessions Would Go To My Knees & Cry ]
[ There Have Been Many Nights When A Nightmare Of Losing Everything By An Act Of Mother Nature Woke Me In A Cold Sweat ]
[ Yes, Insurance Will Pay Out ]
[ But Only A Fraction Of The Monetary Value That I Would Ever Have ]
[ What About Possessions That Money Can’t Buy, Or Replicate? ]
[ Physical Pictures, Lifting Awards, Pictures, Money (Over Said Amount), Actual Letters &/Or Cards, Jewelry, Collections, All Clothing, etc… ]
[ I Never Want To Be Put In That Position ]
[ Being Burglarized Was Hard Enough ]
[ The Way Insurance Companies Pay Out Is Another Criminal Act Committed Against You ]
[ Misrepresenting Their Policies ]
[ Making It SO Hard To File, Then Collect On A Claim ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.
[ There Have Been Many Times When I Have Felt Out Of Place, Or Out Of My Element ]
[ The Earliest Times When I Had Felt Out Of Place, Was Each Time I Was Moved To Another Foster Home ]
[ I Was Not Quite (3) Years Old When My Sister & I Were Moved Into The First Foster Home ]
[ About Every (18) Months We Were Moved ]
[ When You Get There You Do Not Know A Single Thing About What You Can Or Can’t Do, Where You Are, Who Is In The House, What Do You Call Them, Where To Go, What The Daily Or Nightly Schedule Is, etc … ]
[ You Are Scared, Worried, Angry & A Number Of More Emotions ]
[ We Did Not Have Any Family In Oregon After Our Dad Shot Himself In The Head ]
[ So I Could Just Imagine That We Were A Tiny Bit Traumatized Since He Did It In The Home ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.
[ I Would Like To Work With Kids, Like “The Boys & Girls Club” ]
[ I Would Like To Teach A “Transition Group” To Juveniles That Are About To Be Sent Back Into Society From A Juvenile Corrections Setting ]
[ Be A Personal Trainer In A Gym ]
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
