Red Dragon {mpellegrino}

:wave: Aloha all... who choose to flatter me by reading these few wards. I am no writer I am afraid but I hope you enjoy non the less.

I hope to cover all sorts of 'stuff' that resides in my head. Both Dom stuff and just the day to to day. There is a hell of a lot of flotsam and jetsam in that old Dragon head of mine.

To start with 'Aloha'. Many comment on my choice of greeting and ask why I use as my cold sorry ass and my heart are in Scotland and not the islands. Well, I have been fortunate to go to the Hawai'i islands on a number of occasions. Indeed Kona on the big island is my favorite place in the world.

On the first of those trips I got to talking with a native Hawai'ian and he told me about aloha. He said that it meant a few things but the closest is 'I love you'. In the old times on the island they had no word for hello and goodbye. The islands were so close and the concept that you could not see anyone when you wanted was alien to them. The islands being so small and close everyone was related to everyone else somewhere down the line so to those people they were all of the same family and so everyone was called 'cousin' if they were not immediate family. so the would say 'I love you cousin' when they met in their day to day dealings. When outsiders came to islands they assumed that the 'aloha' meant hello. As the islanders said 'I love you cousin' when they parted they assumed that aloha meant both hello and goodbye. So that is what most outsiders think it means today.

I do not know if this is true or not ... and really I don't much care. I like the idea that all of you are my 'cousins' and that when I see you all I wish 'love' on you. (Even you Dom/Domme ly types).

The islanders had no concept that they would not met someone again so had no words for farewell as such. I use the word mahalo, which is closest to thank you in hawai'ian.

Talk again soon. Mahalo Dragon xx