grace n.’s Reviews > Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai'i > Status Update

i want to mark this moment for myself.

“…him strumming and me singing a famous song by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole:

Henehene kou aka.
Kou le ʻale ʻa paha…
He mea maʻa mau ia,
for you and I.”

I feel it. The feeling that I’m not that far from ʻāina, because I could hear this mele in my head. I knew the melody. I am still hapa, as hard as it is to believe that about myself. Whew.