Kānaka wai wai: Of Mentors, Community, and The Waterman
"Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.” - Margaret Atwood
Way before the year of the fire, I was on a beach in Lahaina on a calm day, calmer than it was supposed to be. A lot of people were on the beach, surfboards jammed in the sand or, unwisely, being used as makeshift beach blankets. They were all waiting for the waves.
I was hanging out with some locals, trying to learn the Hawaiian I had overheard. There …