(303)▪︎[ Next Time, See The Signs … 2026 ]

[ When It Sounds Like An Argument Is Going Back & Forth ]
[ Maybe You Should Take A Pause ]
[ Then Go To Your “True North” ]
[ Before The Other Person Starts Showing Their Claws ]

[ Because You Might Find That Their Strongest Characteristic ]
[ Might Be When They Show How Narcissistic ]

[ They Truly Get & Are ]
[ That Might Be Why They Are So High Maintenance ]
[ Like A Really Expensive Sports Car ]

[ Going To Your “True North” Can Have Such A Calming Affect ]
[ Especially In The Face ]
[ Of Someone Who Acts Like They Are An Emotional Train Wreak ]

[ It Is Not Up To You To Solve Their Problems ]
[ Or Fix Them ]

[ A Narcissist Cannot Ever Get Out Of Their Own Way ]
[ Mainly Because They Do Not Ever Believe They Are In The First Place ]
[ No Matter What You Will Say ]
[ Or Show To Their Face ]

[ A Narcissist Is Never Truly Empathetic ]
[ But Getting Away From One Can Prove To Be ]
[ Very Cathartic ]
[ & Strangely ]
[ Staying With One Can Prove To Become Very Problematic ]

[ So Why Would You Want To Stay With One ]
[ Since Now That Everything Has Stopped Being Fun ]
[ You Are Just Very Pleased That There Won’t Be An Anniversary For Year (31) ]
[ So Take The Advice Of “Run Forest, Run!” ]

[ You Will Find ]
[ That You Will Never Be Able To Figure Out The Thinking ]
[ That Goes On In Their Mind ]
[ They Could Try To Spend Many Nights Binge Drinking ]
[ & They Will Never Go Dakine! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

▪︎  ••  ••  ▪︎

(212)▪︎[ Time To Go … 2026 ]

[ You Don’t Get Married In Hopes Of Preparing For Divorce ]
[ That Would Be Like Putting The Cart In Front Of The Horse ]
[ Of Course ]

[ Life Is Full Of Long Periods Of Boredom, Followed By Sudden Twists ]
[ One Day You Feel Sedentary ]
[ The Next Day You Are Running All Over Town Finishing Your To-Do Lists ]

[ You Want To Drop Her One Big Clue ]
[ By Saying, “ABCDEF-You” ]

[ You Don’t Want To Cause A Scene ]
[ By Being Mean ]
[ So You Keep Your Temperment Somewhere In-Between ]

[ Being Mean & Nice ]
[ Some Comments You Have To Say Twice ]
[ But Not Thrice ]

[ It Is Not That You Are Angry Or Emotional ]
[ You Gave Up Being Devotional ]
[ When You Started Being Rational ]

[ Curves In The Road Are Common Place ]
[ Just Don’t Turn Into A Disgrace ]
[ & Do Something That Blows Up In Your Face! ]

[ You Want To Walk With Your Head Held High ]
[ Don’t Tell Lies ]
[ So You Can Be The One That Says, “Goodbye” ]

[ When You Know ]
[ It’s Time To Go ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

▪︎  ••  ••  ▪︎

(001)▪︎[ Time … 2025 ]

Do you need time?

[ Do You Need Time? ]

[ WOW, That Is A Very Broad Question ]

[ Do You Need Time For What? ]

[ To Work? To Alot Of People That Could Be A “Yes or No” Question. To Get More Work Done? Than That Would Be A Definite “Yes.” To Be @ Work Longer? Than Probably “No.” ]

[ To Play, “Yes.” ]

[ To Have More Time With Your Wife? “Yes.” ]

[ To Have More Time With Your Friends? “Yes.” ]

[ To Have More Time Around The General Public, Or Society? The Way Our World Is Going, Downhill Fast, Than, “No.” ]

[ Then The Bigger Question Is … How Do You Get More Time? ]

[ You Can Save Up “Sick Time” & “Vacation Time” If You Work @ A Job That Gives Both ]

[ You Cannot Save Up Time On Monday, In Hopes Of Using It On Tuesday ]

[ If You Save Time For An Event, What Are You Not Doing, When Saving Time For The Event? ]

[ You Cannot Borrow Time From The Next Day, Because That Has Yet To Become A Reality ]

[ When You Have A “Need”, Must You Always Come Up With A Way To Satisfy That “Need?” ]

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(502)▪︎[ Times … 6•18•2021 ]

[ To Those Who Say ( TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS ) Are
     All Wrong ]
[ Those Word’s Are From The One’s Who Think That They Are
     Really Strong ]

[ Strong Muscles & Strong Will ]
[ They Would Be The Types That Would Help Jack ‘n Jill ]
[ Bring That Heavy Bucket Of Water ]
[ Up That Steep, Snowy Hill ]

[ How Would Time Heal A Wound That Never Closes ]
[ That Would Be As Easy ]
[ As Getting Water Out Of Some Kinked Up Hoses ]

[ Maybe A Little Here Or A Little There ]
[ Fully Healing Is Extremely Rare ]

[ The Passing Of Time Is Like Putting A Band-Aid On It So It
     Could Heal Up ]
[ That Never Works ]
[ Because These Wounds Are Much Bigger Than A Plain Old
     Cut ]

[ Time Is Not An Ointment That One Can Apply To A Wound ]
[ Sometimes Time Brings In More Gloom & Doom ]

[ Each & Everyday Is A Reminder Of The Day When You Got
     Hurt ]
[ Time Reminds You Of The Day When & Where You Got Kicked
     Into The Dirt ]

[ They Sure Did Kick Dirt In Your Eyes ]
[ When You Were Down ]
[ Then Told A Bunch Lies ]
[ To The Crowd ]

[ Not One Accusation That They Made While Interrogating
     You ]
[ Was True ]

[ Those Old Women Had Nothing ]
[ So They Brought In A Guy Who Really Thought HE Was
     Something ]

[ In Situations Like That, Time Does Not Heal ]
[ Time Actually Steals ]
[ Away From You, While You Are Trying To Learn What’s Real ]

[ Again ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo iā ‘oe  ]
[  A hui hou mākou  ]
[  Aloha  ] ‎ 
  ‎
[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe ]

(109)▪︎[ Currency … 2•5•2020 ]

[ Time, Is The Only Currency That We’ll Never Get Back ]
[ & Sometimes, It Is More Time That We Lack ]

[ Time Takes A Long Time To Tick By ]
[ Then You Wonder ( I’m WATCHING THE CLOCK, WHY? ) ]

[ Watching The Clock Tic, Is About As Productive As Watching
Water Boil ]
[ It Makes As Much Sense As Mixing Water & Oil ]

[ Watching The Clock Could Make You Bored ]
[ Wasting Time Is Something Most Of Us Cannot Afford ]

[ The Worst Is When You Procrastinate ]
[ You Might As Well Stand In One Place & Wait ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo iā ‘oe  ]
[  A hui hou mākou  ]
[  Aloha  ] ‎ 
  ‎
[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe ]

(560)▪︎[ Where Time Goes To Die … 7•8•2021 ]

[ Sometimes Life Comes @ You So Fast ]
[ That It Makes You Do A Double Take ]
[ As It Flies Into Your Past ]

[ It Is Like That When You Are Doing Something Fun ]
[ One Minute You Start Something ]
[ & The Next Minute You Are Done ]

[ But If It Is Boring Or Hard To Do ]
[ One Hour Could Go By ]
[ But It Felt Like Two ]

[ Memories Sometimes Don’t Last Forever ]
[ Unless You Try To Remember ]

[ A Scent Can Trigger A Memory From Years Passed ]
[ That Would Be One Way To Make A Memory Last ]

[ Some Memories Are Never Meant To Be Remembered ]
[ Some Memories Are Best Left In September ]

[ Is It Life Or Time That Flies By ]
[ All Of A Sudden A Year Is Gone With A Blink Of An Eye ]

[ You Can Never Stock Up On Time ]
[ Like You Can A Penny Or A Dime ]

[ A Dime Here Or A Dime There ]
[ Soon You Will Have Enough Change To Share ]

[ You Can’t Hold Back The Tic Tok ]
[ Of The Wall Clock ]
[ Sometimes There May Come A Time When It Becomes Hard
     For You To Walk ]

[ Never Surrender To Your Aches & Pains ]
[ Do Not Let Time Fly By That You Can’t Explain ]
[ Do Not Spend Time Being Known As The One Who Complains ]

[ That Would Be Time Wasted ]
[ That Would Be Like Food Being Thrown In The Garbage
     Without Being Tasted ]

[ Sometimes Time Just Flies By You ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[  Mahalo iā ‘oe  ]
[  A hui hou mākou  ]
[  Aloha  ] ‎ 
  ‎
[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe ]

(352)▪︎[ What We Do … 4•27•2021 ]

[ What Do We Gamble With Everyday Of Our Lives? ]
[ It Is Something That We Always Regret When  It Is no
     Longer Here ]
[ But We Never See It When It Arrives ]

[ We Gamble With Time Every Second Of The Day ]
[ But Sometimes We Gamble With Our Time ]
[ To Find The Best Or Shortest Way ]

[ To Accomplish What We Do ]
[ Or Lengthen The Time We Spend With Friends & Loved Ones
     Too ]

[ Time Seems To Fly By When We Are Doing Something We Like
     Or Is Fun ]
[ But Time Seems To Drag On When We Have To Get Something
     Done ]

[ We Gamble On The Time We Give Ourselves To Sleep
     Through The Night ]
[ From The Moment We Close Our Eyes ]
[ We Hope We Get Enough Sleep Before The Morning
     Light ]

[ We Gamble With The Time We Give Ourselves To Do A
     Task ]
[ We Try To Do It Really Fast ]
[ & Probably Learned How To Do It Faster From Completing
     It In The Past ]

[ When We Gamble With Time We Never Get More Time Back ]
[ The Reward, Is What The Gamble Lacks ]

[ We Might Gamble That A Task May Take One To Three More
     Hours ]
[ When It Comes To Control Of The Clock ]
[ It Is Totally Outside Of Our Powers ]

[ It Is Nice To Set Aside A Couple Of Hours For The Ones
     That Care ]
[ In Those Situations, We Try To Find The Time To Spare  ]

[ We Can Share Our Time With Others ]
[ Like With Our Friends, Sisters Or Brothers ]

[ Sometimes The Gambles Pay Off ]
[ Othertimes We Might Regret That It Has Been Some Time That
     We Lost ]

[ Gambling With Our Time Is Not Like Gambling With Dollars
     & Cents ]
[ To Some ]
[ Gambling Lots Of Money Does Not Make A Bit Of Sense ]

[ Sometimes Gambling With Our Time Can Come With The Loss
     Of A Monetary Value ]
[ Maybe When People Let Time Waste Away ]
[ They Have No Clue ]
[ That They Have A Say ]

[ When Others Say That ( TIME IS MONEY ) ]
[ That Is When Only Time Will Tell ]
[ They Will Have To Wait See ]
[ If Their Gamble Went Well ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]