Aloha Connects: What is Hawaiʻi, What is Aloha?

[@CookWithAloha]

With tears of joy in my heart watching this video exemplifies the reason we are returning to Hawai'i on March 1, 2012 to live out the remainder of our lives....a time span that we hope to be a very long time. Mahalo for producing this video.

[@MarkFromHawaii]

This is so beautiful and reminds me once more how blessed I am to live, work, play and raise my family in such a special place. Mahalo nui loa.

[@rufuslivermore]

Whenever we visit Hawaii, we make a point of honoring the "Spirit of Aloha" by touching the hand of the statue of Queen Kapiolani in Kapiloani Park. Our world needs the spirit of Aloha. This video is beautiful and compelling.

[@Nerdificent]

Thank you, Pono Shim for this uplifting and beautiful video. Although I consider southwestern British Columbia to be home, I would dearly love to visit the Hawaiian islands, all of those available to tourists. My home has beautiful rugged coastlines, mountains and ocean too. About 150 years ago, many Hawaiians also settled here. You may like to visit here too.

[@joannechang4282]

Pono, your video is beautiful and inspiring. I was born on Kauai, have lived in So.Calif most of my 70 yrs, but my heart is Hawaiian. I return to Honolulu often to recharge my heart. Malama pono

[@sylviakop]

Mahalo...........Mike & Syl Kop...fab and perfect! Confirms why we feel so much of always having the best....eh.

[@barbaravagnoni]

This video brought many beautiful memories of my stay there. Enjoy

[@mshawaiioz]

Beautiful video, mahalo nui loa Pono!

[@babyti808]

This is so beautiful

[@wangyrn]

Aloha! From Georgia. This video makes me home sick now...4 more years until my military contract is up!

[@leightonia]

This is a beautiful video that is very well done. However, I have two small criticisms: 1) Because they were the first group of laborers to be brought here, the Chinese should be introduced before the Japanese; and 2) the ‘okina or glottal stop in the word Hawai‘i is incorrectly represented by an apostrophe. But other than that, the visuals in this piece are very nice indeed!

[@nancydrewcam]

Alive with Aloha (I remember)

[@kiionioni7]

the sense of the word in the North Marquesan, and which has its analogy in the Tahitian and Hawaiian, it is evedently an epithet, a distinguishing mark of that particular 'Hawa" from any other. Though the words could have a dual meaning, breath, water and Io are certainly not in the running.

[@kiionioni7]

Hawai`ino ka oi. One comment to enlighten. The word Hawai`i is indeed a compunded word however, it is not "Ha•wai• i" more acurrately it is "Hawa•i`i." Hawa and i`i, iki or iti. In Hawaiian - Hawa-i`i Tahiti - Hava-iki Samoan-Sava-ii Aotearoa-Hawa-iki Marquesan-Hawa-iki Rarotonga-Awa-iki Tonga-Abai Whether the i`i, iki, iti is accepted as meaning "small; little," the apparent sense of the Maori, Rarotongan and South Marquesan for of the word, or "raging, furious with heat,"

[@MassWalt]

I loved the video, great work. Too bad the spot on Obama was included. For me, he has nothing to do with Hawaii. Just a place to take taxpayers expensive vacations for him. But otherwise, very well done. I agree with wangym, makes me homesick. Aloha.... :)