Adam:
I wish I knew more about your tree dying problems but I'm sure I don't.
I'm fairly new to this but I have found a way to make the rest of my
busy life work and still be able to practice the hobby I love. I would
say do what you need to do. I have no real picture of your life but I
did read that you love bonsai and as such you should find some way to do
the things you love. Life's too short.
Maybe for now you need to put some trees in the ground and think long
term. Let mother nature take care of them and let them grow and get a
fat trunk and come back to them in a few years. Buys some $5 Lowe's or
Home Depot junipers and have fun with them. Prune them and stick them
in the ground until you have the time or money to do more. Cruise the
web sites, hit the club meetings when you can, but keep the love for
bonsai alive. Maybe it has to be dormant for a few months or years but
in the end you'll come back to it.
My club has a mix, but is also mostly people older than me. I take that
as a challenge and I try to have fun with them. I try to be the funny
younger guy. I try to let them teach me what they know. In the end we
all benefit.
I'm sure some people in this list may be able to give you advice for
local nurseries. I have a few local favorites that I try to go to each
year and buy 1 tree. Maybe for now you can't do that, OR maybe for now
you can get 1 tree a year and that's it. Check out free sources....find
a way to dig some of your own for free. Even if it's just one a year
and even if you stick it in the ground for later you're keeping "it"
alive.
I can tell by your tone that you love it. Find a way to hang in there.
As we say in our club...."When in Doubt....Put them in the ground!"
Bil
== -----Original Message-----
== From: Internet Bonsai Club ] On
Behalf
== Of adam roler
== Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 9:31 PM
== To:
== Subject: [IBC] bored
==
== to all,
==
== well, i think its about time to call it quits. as of
== late, i have been more discouraged about my art than ever.
== i truly love bonsai. it is the only thing that could bring
== me peace during a time of great turbulence in my life. but
== now as i watch powerlessly as all my beautiful trees die, i
== am almost certain that a chapter in my life has closed. i
== can list all kinds of reasons. i guess i'll list some of
== them here for my own sanity.
== i don't have time. i am a young man with a wife and a
== toddler. i work 50 to 55 hours a week to try to get ahead.
== i think i might be able to maintain interest if i could
== get my hands on something other than ficus, schefflera, or
== boxwood. i have tried my local club but the only advice i
== have been given is that i should go through mail order to
== get good stuff (which i can't afford), or go to some
== obscure nursery (which is always too far away). so i have
== come to the conclusion that at least at this point in my
== life, bonsai is not for me. i am 27 years old. all the
== people at my local club that i have met or talked to are
== over 50 (or at least significantly older than me). i wish
== so much to feel like the last two and a half years in this
== art were not wasted, but it gets harder every day. i look
== at my trees now and feel helpless. i don't want to quit
== but it seems i have no other option. due to the above
== circumstances, my creativity has met its limit. i am
== bored. so help me if you can. i hope this is not too
== sappy for all of you. i mean all of this from my heart.
== so thanks all for your kind words and wisdom. i hope to
== hear from you soon.
==
== in His grace,
== adam roler
== Indianapolis, Indiana
==
== =====
== "...we have (still) a great need for a Savior, and a great Savior
for
== our need." -Derek Webb
==
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