erubeck

Interesting ideas! I think the points made will work for that group of folks who stop to seriously consider a bonsai specimen and who are interested enough to want more information.

There is another group, however, who happen across a bonsai display and delight in the moment of that particular specimen and then move on. I am that way with a lot of things. If I go to an orchid show, for example, and see a particularly beautiful bloom I will appreciate it and delight in its beauty for the moment but I have no further interest beyond that to want more information on the background of the plant. I just enjoy it at that moment and move on.

To my way of thinking it is a wonderful thing to be able to grow and train a bonsai and cause that moment of delight for a person. I don't need to "change the world" but just helping to produce that special moment is very satisfying indeed.

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Regards,

Ed