Tsai-ko Autobiography:  LizKauai

Name:    Liz  (name withheld)     Bonafide Tsai-ko
High School:   (Phoenix)
Tsai-ko Lunch Size:  N/A
Original Tsai-ko caricature:  second row, left end
Other:  President, Kauai Tsai-ko Chapter.   LizKauai's blog recipes here

From the Warrior Beat blog October 6, 2007:
ST's Intro:
In her brief time as a poster, LizKauai has brought a refreshing perspective to all topics, always written with a positive tone. She has taken an interesting path through life, and we're happy she decided to visit us along the way.
Here's LizKauai:

I was born in NYC, NY, an Aries in the Year of the Tiger, and raised in the resort town of Lake Geneva, WI by my parents who emigrated from Korea and met in NYC a couple of years before I came along. Dad was a businessman and Mom a classical Korean folk musician. Needless to say, I had a rather surreal childhood filled with mansions and horses, cheese and snow. Most importantly, in retrospect, I found myself searching for an identity because I didn’t fit into the status quo. Native American cultures attracted me the most and I spent lots of time in the woods and on horseback pretending I was an Indian.

After a year in Seoul and high school graduation in Phoenix, I moved with my artist husband and young daughter to Kaua‘i to help establish the Bahá’í Faith and have been here ever since. The rest of my kids are boys. The first was a high school swimmer who still holds the 19 year old Kaua‘i record for the 100 yard breaststroke. He is now a lifeguard at Poipu Beach, a fine ceramicist, amateur astronomer, husband and father. A second marriage brought two more sons 19 and 21 years after the first. They are musical, digital, interesting and the source of many teenage-inspired adventures when others my age would be enjoying an empty nest and occasional grandkids. The place we live, Waimea, is truly a village whose kuleana is malama opio so the urge to care for and about all the kids is a natural one.

So far, I have experienced life as a waitress, art dealer, Fidonet BBS sysop, landscaping supervisor, movie extra and art department coordinator, freelance writer, newspaper stringer, art photographer, web designer, Beanie Baby collector, amateur philosopher, champion Betta breeder, cat herder, office supply salesperson, folk musician, movie buff, theater actress, lyricist and songwriter, cheerleader, soccer mom, swim team mom, band mom, hula mom, single mom, Trustee assistant, Wahine Volleyball and WARRIORS FAN!

Life sure is fun. The older I get, the “funner” it is. Really. What started as a quest for identity has become an appreciation for all things. Like a drop of water deciding to let the force of adhesion (that kept it an individual) give way to the force of cohesion, which allows it to become merged into rivers and streams, I see everything as part of one reality- the seen and the unseen… and the connections along the way. Most of the “bad” stuff in life is a form of ignorance or fear. The “fun” part, which has the power to overcome the “bad” part, is the spirit of aloha that we all share.

Which brings me up to today- when, if this bio is on schedule, I will be attending my FIRST game at Aloha Stadium! I’ll be the one in the nosebleed section around the 40 yard line with the “Colt Brennan – HI’s-MAN” sign.


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