bonsaial1

I look at bonsai as a large cookie. The masters have the whole cookie. The newbies want parts of the cookie to help make their uncomplete cookie whole. When a question is asked of an expieranced bonsai person the get a piece of the cookie broken off and passed to them. Sooner or later the cookie may not be whole but given enough time it is complete enough to start doing great bonsai.

Now.., while I in no way think of myself as a expert or master or any of the other technical terms we have to affix to someone more learned, I can offer a small piece of the cookie to those that wish to accept it.

If you want to become proficient at picking stock, offer yourself at the club as a workshop teacher. Bite the bullet and offer yourself as a "buddy" to the less learned in your own club.

Like John Naka said to Ernie Kuo, " The fastest way to learn bonsai, is to teach bonsai".

When you offer yourself to someone that may not have the expierance you do, you will be amazed at how much the rules come to the surface, and you start applying them to those twigs in pots and low and behold you actually can make something pretty good out of that twig in a nursery container. The more you teach the better you get. You have much more opportunity to see stock that you would not necessarily buy, but by virtue of your new position, must try to make something of it. This is very challanging, and puts you in the position that many artists are subjected to every time they show up for a demo to work on stock they have never seen.

Try it you may like it. Bonsai-al

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