identitySPECIALIST

I am overwhelmed by the way that I’m blessed.  I am overwhelmed with the things that I have been able to do – and the opportunities of the future.  As I reflect on the past and the future – as I reflect on where I have come from and where I have been – I miss home.  I miss the Aloha Spirit – that sense of community and togetherness that just beckons me.  

It is so much a part of me – a part of my identity – but I can get so wrapped up in the busyness that I have forgotten.  I have forgotten what it means to feel and know Aloha.  I identify with it.  I know it.  I miss it.  I want it.  

I just watched a video of Uncle Willie K talking about the Aloha Spirit, and even how in Hawaii – it’s changing.  He talked about that sense of Aloha that was an invitation to intimacy and relationship.  Come eat.  Come stay.  No go away.

It is where I grew up.  It is what I know, and I can sit here and want it – alone.  Or I can bring the Aloha Spirit to the people that I am with today.  Aloha brings us all together.  Aloha is to be present with people there.  It’s a part of me.  It’s my identity.  

Aloha Kakou – may there be friends and love between us.