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Old 16-Oct-2003   #19
riprap
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Ahh! but some beholders are better beholders than other beholders.

Barry

And Hank Miller -- taking the gambit -- wrote: "Are they?"

I have no doubt that they are. My perceptions of bonsai are more refined and subtle than they were years ago when I started my bonsai adventure. I consider that additional refinement and subtlety to be "better." I am therefore a better beholder than I was earlier. Part of this development comes from paying attention to the opinions of skilled and acknowledged experts in the field, when I am fortunate enough to receive them. This doesn't mean that you and I couldn't have a rollicking good argument down at the local bonsai-ists' tavern. The paths are various.

Cheerfully,

Barry
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