Aloha kakahiaka e na hoaloha a pau,
As we enter another great weekend on Maui we want everyone to truly enjoy their time outdoors, with family and friends, and without injury or harm.
For many of us, exploring our new home on Maui means getting out and discovering the wonders of our beaches and our uplands.
A short word of safety:
Our beaches are gorgeous, majestic, and deadly if you aren’t careful. Locals and visitors alike...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
In Hawai’i, the people made many advancements in life that aided an easy lifestyle and prosperous and healthy families. Traditionally, native Hawaiians were a decidedly agricultural society, having an innate understanding of the natural processes and life cycles of the plants and animals they used for sustenance. Traditional “kapu”--edicts passed from the gods through the Kahuna (priestly class) and Ali’i (chiefly class)--managed the...
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The “root” of the word `ohana is `ohā.
`Ohā are the younger corms of the taro plant that grow off of the main plant, just as we grow from our parents.
I maika’I ke kalo I ka ‘oha
The goodness of the taro is judged by the young it produces.
