Here’s the really, really short version, right out of a Disney – “Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind… or forgotten.” (Lilo and Stich, 2002)Ohana means family. Family is much more than those related by blood or marriage. It does include them, of course. It also includes friends, calabash cousins, and anyone with whom you share enough in common that you might consider them ohana.A simple way to think about Ohana is It’s all the positive things about family. It’s all the positive things a family ought to be. We may agree or disagree on some bits and pieces about what we mean by that – but there’s the ideal. Whatever family ought to be… that’s Ohana. We will define it more completely as we go… but there’s the beginning of it!