With Halloween tomorrow, I kept thinking about how Halloween even came about. With its Celtic origin from the pagan festival Samhain which marked the celebration of the harvest. People would wear costumes and light bonfires so that they were palekana (pronounced “pah-leh-kah-nah”), or protected from ghosts.
Our lives are busy. Living in Silicon Valley, I feel like I’m constantly moving, constantly on a schedule. Feeling frantic seems to be my norm. I’m always looking for a way to get that sense of tranquility, or la’i (pronounced lah-ee) each day.
Fear or “maka’u” (pronounced: mah-kah-oo) can’t be so debilitating…and so stupid at times. We become so wrapped up in the anxiety and trepidation of something it becomes all consuming. It’s October after all and with Halloween just around the corner, the sense of maka’u is heightened with scary costumes, horror movies, etc.
I like to think I’m a good friend, or a good ‘hoaloha’ (pronounced: ho-ah-low-ha) both to those who are close to me and to those who I don’t know. You have seen me say here many times that we have to take care of each other.
I did the walking tour of the Allerton Gardens on Kauai and we stopped at one of the “rooms” in the garden, Diana’s Pool. A little building, a pool and a statue of the goddess Diana at the end of the pool. Standing at either end of the pool, you had the perfect noho ke aka (pronounced: no-ho keh ah-kah) of what was on the other end.
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