Taeao is morning in the Samoan language. You can also say Talofa lava as a good morning greeting in Samoan. Which gets us to another way to start a day. Look up one word or phrase from a language you want to learn every morning. Maybe you took Spanish for years in school but never spoke it. Use five minutes in the beginning of the day to say good morning (buenos dias) and walk through the rest of your day feeling like an integral part of the world community, like the words of hundreds of languages are right on the tip of our tongues, like in a blink of an eye we can communicate to someone halfway around the globe, like the same morning sun we see rising up from a blue sky is the one that sinks down in the lower hemisphere of the planet. We're all watching the same stars, and drinking water that is 4 billion years old....
Talofa lava. Talofa lava. Talofa lava.
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