Talk Story, Any Day

I think one of my favorite Hawaiian phrases is ‘talk story.” I love hearing a good story just as much as I love telling one. Even if you attend the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce Northern California meeting, there is always a ‘talk story’ time.

You might have noticed that on Thursdays, we often ask questions and encourage dialogue. We have so much to learn from each other, whether it be travel tips or ways to find your aloha. Plus, we want to know what you want in your next box.

Next Friday, however, we are really going to ‘talk story’ and go live on Facebook to answer your questions about She Lives Aloha. We’ll answer any questions about the new offerings as well as why are we doing this. 

We’ve opened up comments on this post, so you can ask your questions now. We’ll be sure to cover them in our live feed.

Hope to see you at noon PST on October 25th.

P.S. Someone who writes a lot about ‘talk story’ is Rosa Say, author of Managing with Aloha and TalkingStory.org, who had this to write:

“This may be the best place to pause, and explain why I refer to “talking story” fairly often. Unfortunately, our Hawaiian ancestors did not pen a written history of our islands. Information was passed generation to generation verbally, with the ‘Ōlelo (the language and spoken word) and in storytelling. Today there is much effort in our Hawaiian renaissance to record what we know about our past history before the kūpuna (our elders) forget and can no longer tell it to us. Still today, for us to communicate and dialogue is to “talk story.” There is so very much I personally have learned from the ‘ōlelo form of teaching, perhaps most of all that anyone who speaks has the potential to be my teacher. I only need listen as well as I can, quieting the voices in my own head.”