By Linda Buckley Many times indigenous languages give us another way of thinking about meaning. The Hawai’ian word for breath is ha. I have often wondered how aloha could mean hello, good-bye, and I love you, but literally, it means “I give you my breath.”…
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By Linda Buckley Many times indigenous languages give us another way of thinking about meaning. The Hawai'ian word for breath is ha. I have often wondered how aloha could mean hello, good-bye, and I love you, but literally, it means "I give you my breath."…
