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11-Jan-2005	#1
Attila Attila Soos Join Date: Jan-2002 Location: Los Angeles, California Country: USA Posts: 1,924	Why I Bonsai "Most people would like to stop the passage of time so that they can stay good-looking forever. Bonsai artists on the other hand want to rush time so that our trees get better looking every year. The older we get the happier we are with our creations. This makes aging much more fun." -Attila

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13-Dec-2006

tachigi

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Attila.....That quote makes me feel so much better about my arthritis

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Don't flay yourself mentally when you make a mistake or when something bad happens. Just pick yourself up from the god-awful mess you’ve made, say to yourself "I must make a note not to do that again." and go on to the next step, of the hundred or so that remain.

14-Dec-2006	#3
ForSure bonsaiTALK Journeyman Join Date: Feb-2006 Location: Parys, Free State Country: South Africa Posts: 13	Why I Bonsai A very thought provoking qoute! I enjoyed it, thanks. Re: Arthritis, getting old is not for sissies! At least when I bonsai it takes my mind off all the aches and pains.

14-Dec-2006	#4
stephenr bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Jul-2005 Location: Melbourne, Victoria Country: Australia USDA Zone: 3 AHS Heat Zone: 5 Posts: 317	It’s not reaching the destination that is the most important. It’s enjoying the journey where I derive the most pleasure… __________________ "We grow by attempting that which is difficult, not what is easy"

14-Dec-2006	#5
rockm bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Fairfax, Va Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 4,561	"It’s not reaching the destination that is the most important. It’s enjoying the journey where I derive the most pleasure…" I tell myself that while I spend 3 or 4 days repotting, root pruning and mixing 500 lbs of soil every other year . As I choke on the dust, mutilate my fingers mixing crushed granite, clean two dozen pots, try to position a 25 lb tree in 75 lbs of soil without breaking all those little twigs, then pop 4 or 5 Advil for my back, I chant "it's the journey that's important, It's the journey... It's the $%@^ journey "

18-Dec-2006	#6
Mcspeed bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Mar-2006 Location: West Springfield Massachusetts Country: USA USDA Zone: zone 5 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 1,111	rock, rock, rock, Lifes journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body. But rather to skid in sideways, Totaly worn out, Shouting......... Holy (Crap), What a Ride! Stolen from a bumper sticker I saw. ForSure you got that right Arther is one bad mamma jamma, don't get it if you can avoid it.

18-Dec-2006	#7
Vance Wood bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Sep-2002 Location: Roseville Michigan Country: USA USDA Zone: 5/6 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 2,257	If you don't have something to do that you look forward to when you retire then you are a dead man or woman, statistics show six months to a year. A woman has the advantage of family and children that she has given birth to, a man has nothing unless he is being creative. Bonsai can save your life. __________________ The only finished bonsai is a dead one; me 1992 MABA Des Moines Iowa

18-Dec-2006	#8
rockm bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Fairfax, Va Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 4,561	"Lifes journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body. But rather to skid in sideways, Totaly worn out, Shouting........." Spoken like someone who has all his hair and original teeth and whose body hasn't started taking revenge on them . My brain writes checks my behind can't pay these days. That worn out thing is overrated.

19-Dec-2006	#9
Mcspeed bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Mar-2006 Location: West Springfield Massachusetts Country: USA USDA Zone: zone 5 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 1,111	Ah! I do still luckily have most of the hair, but alas the body is paying the toll of a stupid youth ( I had one of those Superman costumes that didn't let me get hurt , invisable as it might have been). Bad knees, back, shoulder, arthritis, bursitis, and a two year old running around the house (my 2 yr. old) it's tough to know your limitations when you are young at heart. Oyyyyyyyy! I just sat down. . Yup a couple of missing teeth too unfortunately, backs not fronts you know ah huh! I must say, knowing what I know now, I may have done things just a bit differently. Then again, I just participated in a pasture dig where I dug for myself 4 trees out of the clay, it was tough lugging them just the 50' to where you could get the truck, helped a couple others dig and lug. When is the trip to the mountains? Owwwww! Soil work shop in the spring, you do what you gotta do. Makes sitting down to relax with a cold one a little more inviting anyway. At least now it Bonsai, instead of BONSAI! It involves some work, but the stress relief I get from working with my trees pays out in a big way. Bill

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