Maintaining hope for Lahaina’s recovery
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Commemorations marking one year since the Maui wildfires continue through the weekend, as survivors and the community work to find healing in each other and process their grief.
Civil Beat editor Naka Nathaniel joined HNN’s Sunrise to talk about covering the paddle-out in Lahaina on Aug. 8, one of the events that honored the 102 victims of the fire.
“My cousin is a fluent Hawaiian speaker, an olelo speaker, and she offered up a special prayer, a hookuu, which is a prayer of release and pain. But what it does is it makes space for the good things to come. And that was the thing that I just found to be so poignant, was that we need to make space for the good things to come from Maui,” Nathaniel said.
“It’s going to take decades to figure out exactly what this means to Hawaii,” he added. “We all have such strong communities that as long as we turn back to ourselves and kind of figure out like, okay, who’s supporting us, who’s helping us stand up, who’s helping us get back up? That’s going to make a big difference.”
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