The Message Sent, The Message Received

I’ve been known to show up an hour early. To me, that’s a way of saying, “Your time matters.” But what I mean and what somebody else hears can be two different things.

In this chapter of The Message Sent, The Message Received, I reflect on what fifty-two years of marriage have taught me about listening, what happens when I say something I can’t take back, and how my understanding of respect has changed over time.

I’m Kika. And the Observer is still observing.

Chapter 01 — The Long-Winded Man

Why is it that we can talk for hours and still fail to communicate what we actually mean?

In the opening chapter of The Message Sent, The Message Received, Kika Waiʻalae and VEX begin exploring the difference between speaking and being understood.

Through personal reflections, humor, and conversation, they examine how a message can leave one person's mouth with one intention and arrive in another person's mind with a completely different meaning.

Part of the nine-chapter audiobook The Message Sent, The Message Received, from Conversations Across a Lifetime.

Featuring Kika and VEX.