ripsgreentree

Krunch: If you mean that bonsai makes me crazy, then I will give you that point. To explain, Bonsai is how I make my living. But not in the normal ways that you would think. I do not sell or teach, which is the normal ways that a person tries to gain an income from bonsai. I am a caretaker. I have my trees that I care for, and then I have my boss's trees. His collection is huge.

So I do bonsai 24-7 with barely time out for church. The commercial buy-and-die, or a cutting in a pot, makes me feel way to cheap: a prostituting of the art of bonsai for money. On your end is bonsai for pure art's sake. If You are dealing with one to twenty trees, you can be a purist. In my case, I am dealing with thousands of trees. None of the trees in my care will ever reach its artistic zenith and be best of the show. But many of the trees in my care will be taken by a artist like yourself and attain that zenith because of the foundation that we give each tree that we own.

This will help you to understand where I am coming from. I try to achieve a measure of balance between being a prostitute or a purist.

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ripsgreentree

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