Black flowing script reading Ohana with two small hibiscus flowers beneath the letters, shown as a flash design on a white background.

Ohana script with hibiscus flowers

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A black flowing script word reading Ohana, with a large looped capital O and an elongated stroke rising above the h. Two solid black hibiscus flowers sit beneath the lettering at the lower left. The design is drawn in bold, smooth strokes on a plain white background with no shading or colour.

Lettering Botanical Ohana Script Lettering Hibiscus Flower

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Dear Kai, the hibiscus by the gate came back after the rain, two blooms this morning, red as the paper lanterns Mum hung at your birthday the year the wind took the cord. Aunty Leilani says they are too early and we should not trust them, but I picked them anyway and put them in the jam jar on the windowsill, next to the fishing knife you left behind.

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The boat still won't start. Uncle Sam has his knee up on a crate and tells anyone who will listen that the mechanic in town charges like he owns the reef. The cousins have argued for a week about who gets the back seat of the truck to the market, and Tutu has settled it by sitting in the seat and refusing to move. Everyone asks when you are coming. I tell them what you told me on the phone, that the last ferry went without you and the next one is Tuesday, and then I go quiet, because Tuesday has been Tuesday for three years now.

Grandad had a line for this, which you will remember because he said it every time someone was late for Sunday: the family is not a thing you keep in one place, it is a thing you keep turning up for. So we carried the long table out to the porch, where there is room for everyone, and I laid one more plate than we need, the one with the chipped rim you always took.

This morning a petal came off the flower and landed on the top step, dark at the edges and folded like a hand. I have left it there. Come up the path when you are ready and step over it.