Word Gifts from Hawaii, God, and All the ALOHA You Will Ever Need
Here are a few simple Hawaiian words and ideas that can offer Aloha to any life. With great Aloha, I offer their wisdom to you.
As my family slowly transitions away from Hawaii, I am making an effort to gather and hold on to the many blessings that come from this magical land. The language here helps a great deal with that and can help you contain just a jot of that magic.
There is sorrow in having to leave, a departure mostly related to costs and climate, but this article is not about that sadness. This article is about Mahalo, or gratitude, and a celebrated joy of a place like no other on Earth.
Nowhere is that spirit-(HA) — better represented than in the language of Hawaii.
It would help the whole world to see our O’hana (family) values as practical and wise, which is just one idea Hawaii offers the world. Another is the spirit of Aloha, which is the sharing of all spirit blessings and affection.
Being set upon the most remote islands on Earth (except for Pitcairn which is tiny), Hawaii’s first few million years were a pure paradise. Once the lava cooled and eons of winds, storms, raft-wrecks (like ship-wrecks, only on a much smaller scale) touched Hawaii, everything changed.
