With #HawaiianLanguageMonth in full swing and Valentine’s Day around the corner, we’re reminded of this ’Ōlelo Noeau when we see the bamboo forests of Kīpahulu:⁣ ⁣ Ka makani kāʻili aloha o Kīpahulu. (The love-snatching wind of Kīpahulu.) ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ A woman of Kīpahulu, Maui, listened to the entreaties of a man from Oʻahu and left her husband and children to go with him to his home island. Her husband missed her very much and grieved. He mentioned his grief to a kahuna skilled in hana aloha sorcery, who told the man to find a container with a lid. The man was told to talk into it, telling of his love for his wife. Then the kahuna uttered an incantation into the container, closed it, and hurled it into the sea. The wife was fishing one morning at Kālia, Oʻahu, when she saw a container floating in on a wave. She picked it up and opened it, whereupon a great longing possessed her to go home. She walked until she found a canoe to take her to Maui. ⁣⁣ ⁣ – ’Ōlelo Noe’au #1463⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #OluKai⁣ #Anywhe...