I remember a few years ago, visiting Maui, and hearing people greet each other with Aloha - both the word and the value, and I wondered if I would ever feel comfortable adopting that phrase into my vocabulary.
When I first moved to this beautiful island, I used it intermittently depending on the audience and when I felt like I could "get away with it", and for some reason I felt like I was a bit of a poser using it.
I can safely say now that it is a very comfortable and common phrase in my vocabulary, and recently I have really begun to embrace it's meaning and practice it daily. Every now and then I'm reminded that it isn't a part of my native tongue, but I hope that someday that word along with many others - a hui ho, e komo mai, ohana, etc. - will forever be a part of my everyday language. For such a small alphabet, the Hawaiian language carries a lot of beauty.
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