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.