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Just like family
The beauty of living on an isolated island and small town is everyone treats you like family, or ‘ohana.
Many of my friends have either quit talking to me and give me the silent treatment and stink eye or spread vicious rumors that are hard to defend because everyone loves to gossip, just like family.
Living in a sleepy town where most don’t accept phone calls after 9 p.m. and if you dare call someone at 9:05 p.m. they will answer and go off on you on why you called so late, just like family.
The other great thing about an isolated island and small town is people know things about you before you do, just like family.
I use to take offense at the lack of aloha I experienced in Hawai‘i until I realized most people were treating me just like family.
Welcome to paradise where everyone is treated just like family, or should I say ‘ohana?
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3 comments:
via facebook and Gaeden Island news;"Ah yeah, the embrace of FAMILY!
(Including all the strange old uncles and aunts hiding in the attic)"
via Garden Island News;"Kimo, why so glum today?
Dude, you've taken some wildly controversial stances, e.g. support for plastic bags, and have thus become notorious.
Didn't some LTE writer recently call you an "island treasure," "famous," or something like that?
If you're going to run for mayor, you've got to continue to be yourself, stink-eye notwithstanding, and let your family members think what they will. There is Nothing to be gained by trying to change your style now.
Hang in there!"
Whee,
The point of Letter was not Glumness but was making a correlation on how we should all be happy that sometimes we are not treated great, because that's how family treat each other, brothers and sisters, fathers and sons, Mothers and daughters fight at times...Even on this comments page many do not treat each other pono, but that is because we love each other! Right? :D) Aloha Kimo
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