I came across this old Hawaiian proverb recently: ua ola no i ka pane e ka aloha (pronounced: oo-ah oh-lah no ee kah pah-neh a keh aloha) which means “There is life in a kindly reply.” As we are now deep into the holiday season, this phrase feels so poignant.
As I get older, I am reflecting more and more about my ‘younger’ years. Life seems so complicated back then but now, as I look back, life was so much simpler than it feels today. One thing that I think of a lot is how now the world seems to be lacking kindness or lokomaika’i (pronounced loh-koh-mah-ee-kah-ee) that I remember from when I was young.
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