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Originally posted by bonsaial1
Treebeard, why did you write the caveat?
I re-read this about a dozen times to make sure I was reading it correctly. This is exactly what I am talking about. Why do some feel the need to back up everything they say with "I may in the future but not right now."
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Originally posted by bonsaial1
I guess I read the posts of some here, and then read the posts on Freds "starting anew' thread, and all those that shun social bonsai as not necessary, sure do promote it on the other thread.
Almost sounds like different people.
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Al, you ask the question and provide the answer yourself.
Let me explain. I have been toying with joining my local club for over a year now, but for one reason or another, mainly time and transport, I never have. I
would like to join, and may eventually get around to doing so, but I'm not sure when. Might be 5 weeks down the line, or 5 years.
So, if/when I do eventually join, and post up that I have, you can be sure some eagle-eyed elephant-memoried member of bonsaitalk will say "but you said you only wanted to do it in your back garden", and I am left looking a right 'nana.
None of us can really say for definate what we will think in 6 months time... even that's not true really, I don't think I will ever consider myself an artist.
On that subject, is it correct to call everyone who ran in the London marathon an athlete? Is everyone who does home finances a mathematician? Is every person who brews homebrew beer a chemist? The list of comparisons could go on and on.
And on the subject of marathons, 99% of participants know full well that they will not win. The London marathon attracts thousands of participants. There can only be one winner. I don't remember who won the last one, but I can remember the pictures on the TV of all the ordinary people plodding round in 5 hours.
You can't have every tom, dick and harriet clamouring for their trees to be accepted as art. Also there just isn't room for thousands and thousands of trees to be shown at shows. I am sure that anyone faced with a half-mile plod down a row of 2500 trees would eventually get bored with it, no matter how fantastic the trees are.
My point is that for every tree that wins an award at a show, there are thousands 'underneath' that don't, and probably never will. There can't be a pinnacle without the mountain underneath.
More corn for the mill...
Regards,
TB