Kukakuka'la: on Blogspot

"Let's talk story today."

In the Hawaiian language the word - kukakuka - is used between friends, who know each other well, to encourage remembrance between friends - with open vocalization - of the events of their past.

Saying and writing the paths we've trekked, the people we've connected, the events we have survived, keeps them all freshly alive in our memory. As we tell our friends our story, it is passed on for others to know.

The Hawaiian language uses suffix endings to attribute specifics to the root.  In the case of kukakuka, to add the " 'la ", adds a time frame of the present; ie, now, today.  Thus the translation of kukakuka'la, is to say, 'Let's talk story, today.'

This specific puts an air of immediacy - urgency, if you will - into the need to sit, talk, share, story.

In this way we feed the heritage of the world in which we exist.

Kukakuka'la.