'We are bringing Coloradans together to care for Maui through food, a Hawaiian love language.'
We should have said goodbye. We fell asleep on August 7 not knowing that we should have said goodbye to a beloved place that shaped our childhoods — because why would any of us think that a town that has existed and evolved all while continuing to hold tradition and culture and history for centuries would be gone in a matter of hours the next evening?
The tragic irony is that the Hawaiian name for the West Maui Mountains above Lāhainā is Mauna Kahālāwai, meaning “holding house of water.” Hawaiians call the area Na Wai Eha or “the Four Waters,” referring to the four streams and rivers that flow out of the West Maui Mountains to Central Maui. For centuries, Hawaiians used this abundant resource to cultivate taro farms and farm fish ponds.
Through the heyday of the sugar cane industry, the West Maui Mountains were verdant and lush, with emerald green slopes full of marshes and ponds. Those green mountain slopes, which previously held thick, native vegetation, like so much of the other sides of Mauna Kahālāwai, stand now in varying shades of browns, with drought conditions for much of June through October.
Heartbreakingly, the island community now must address the grief and the mental health concerns, and work toward understanding how to help people move forward. The physical rebuilding differs from construction in the 48 contiguous states, where supplies, transportation lines and skilled workers are easier to access and more abundant. The challenges of rebuilding an entire historical town on an island in modern times are inestimable.
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