As the year zooms by...this Lei Day is a rainy one in Keaʻau ma uka. The year started out dry, with little rain from January to late March. I started to cut back on water usage in early March, waiting for the rains to return. And, of course they did. Good thing too, because all blooming things welcome the abundance.
"May Day is Lei Day in Hawaiʻi"... imprinted, ingrained, from small kid time. Though the holiday was "invented", I still honor it, and the tradition of sharing lei.
Iʻve written about Lei Day previously, and there are lots of resources circulating through the ether. I stumbled across the below yesterday. Give the cruel and devastatingly sad state of affairs in Ukraine, we must find hope that someday soon sanity prevails.
Stringing kou on ili hau, more than a few years ago. Keen-eyed ones may comment: At the Beach? Bananaʻs? Yes, but...we werenʻt going fishing...
Hiki? Go. Make a lei, wear a lei, give a lei.
With aloha, always aloha,
