Pulelehua

Welina me ke aloha e nā hoa aloha o ke kakahiaka! Welcome to Morning Mana'o. Like Oprah, I have a few favorite things. I love the silouhette of the moonlight on the ocean. I love the vastness of the mountains on a clear early morning. I love flowers, especially scented ones. I love listening to my children sing and I love butterflies. Knowing this, my son Kamahiwa wrote a song for me last Mother's Day that compares me to a beautiful butterfly or in Hawaiian a pulelehua. The words go like this -

Nani nā waiho'olu'u o ka pulelehua.
Beautiful are the colors of the butterfly.
Lele i mua, lele i hope ma Wailuku, kahi keu a ka nani.
Flying forward and backwards in Wailuku, a beautiful place.
Kū 'o ia e noho me nā pua.
And she still makes time for her flowers, her children.
Lele i mua, lele i hope, lele i uka, lele i kai.
Flying forward, flying backwards, flying in the uplands, flying near the sea.
Holoholo ka pulelehua a puni ka mokupuni 'o Maui.
The butterfly travles around the island of Maui.
U'i 'o ia ke nānā aku. Hana me ka 'olu'olu nui.
She is beautiful to look at and always very pleasant.

For Christmas, he and my other children made me a musical CD and this is the song Kamahiwa chose to record. The best Christmas gift I've ever received. A nice reminder to all to enjoy our children because time flies, they grow up and we will miss these precious moments with them. Thank you, Hiwa for my beautiful mele.

Aloha nō, a hui hou!