In the yard of CHamoru master storyteller Peter R. Onedera is an old tree stump nearing the end of its nearly 40-year-old life. It represents a cycle, Onedera says.

The local author and poet remembers planting the Flame Tree seed in 1987 on the same day his eldest daughter was born.

Now, as the tree’s beaten, brown trunk withers with every passing day, Onedera finds inspiration in nature’s life cycle ...