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Reframing ‘growth’ on Maui
Clayton Collins
The old tree’s tendrils tell a story. Maybe more than one.
New growth has curled from a 150-year-old banyan tree, scorched one year ago in the fires that devastated Lahaina, on the Hawaii island of Maui. The symbolism has been widely noted.
Hawaii-based writer Jack Kiyonaga – who supported the work of Monitor reporter Sarah Matusek on Maui last year, and did reporting of his own – reports today on a development that goes beyond the obvious themes of hope and resilience.
He looks at the island of Molokai, visible from Maui but a world apart – its focus agrarianism, not tourism. It has kept Native Hawaiian values like sustainability and self-reliance at the fore. As Maui works to recover, Molokai is reminding some there of old roots worth nurturing.
