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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2020 0:56:51 GMT
If there's one thing that haunted my childhood homelife, it was bonsai trees. I would save money to try and buy my mother a small cloisonne pot for her birthday and my sister liked those deadly dragon crystals, like those of swarovski. At times it felt like everything around me was miniature, including my mother, my sister and the women in my family. Things could quickly become claustrophobic, like I was living in a Charles Band horror movie. My mother was, probably, around 5'0" (shorter now), whereas my father was around 6'1", so my sister and I came out somewhere inbetween. We all admired the trees.
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Post by autumn on Aug 26, 2020 1:08:32 GMT
There's very pretty. I hear they're very therapeutic and meditative.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2020 1:11:46 GMT
There's very pretty. I hear they're very therapeutic and meditative. My mother is a painter and she's still painting in her 70s. I think she finds bonsai trees to be both those things. Gardening, reading, painting, seem to drive her in retirement. And she's always been influenced by Japanese art which she adores.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 26, 2020 1:16:13 GMT
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Post by autumn on Aug 26, 2020 1:21:28 GMT
There's very pretty. I hear they're very therapeutic and meditative. My mother is a painter and she's still painting in her 70s. I think she finds bonsai trees to be both those things. Gardening, reading, painting, seem to drive her in retirement. And she's always been influenced by Japanese art which she adores. All very artistic and creative ways to express herself. Nice! I have this Japanese mural in my hallway, that's like a panel. 
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2020 1:26:31 GMT
My mother is a painter and she's still painting in her 70s. I think she finds bonsai trees to be both those things. Gardening, reading, painting, seem to drive her in retirement. And she's always been influenced by Japanese art which she adores. All very artistic and creative ways to express herself. Nice! I have this Japanese mural in my hallway, that's like a panel.
That's nice. I've seen a couple of good documentaries on Japanese printmaking. Interesting to observe the processes, how they've evolved artistically, and how artists today preserve certain methods and carry traditions.
I think it's similar to the evolutuon of music, be it country, folk or classical (or simply as a mode of communication).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 1:44:49 GMT
My grandmother had them, so for that reason I love them.
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Post by Sulla on Aug 26, 2020 1:54:20 GMT
I think they're very cool. I had never heard of them until I saw an episode of Family Affair (1970) where a Japanese man (Teru Shimada) gave one to Jody. Years later I bought a seedling at Disney World, but I couldn't get it to grow.
Shimada also played one of Blofeld's subordinates in You Only Live Twice. 
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2020 2:06:19 GMT
I think they're very cool. I had never heard of them until I saw an episode of Family Affair (1970) where a Japanese man (Teru Shimada) gave one to Jody. Years later I bought a seedling at Disney World, but I couldn't get it to grow.
Shimada also played one of Blofeld's subordinates in You Only Live Twice.
I don't know that tv show but I think these trees were pretty popular in the late 1960s / early 1970s, when my mother was still wearing miniskirts out on the town with her sisters (she denies this ever happened and says only her sisters wore them).
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Post by goz on Aug 26, 2020 2:30:32 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2020 2:42:11 GMT
Bonsai is an art. And I hate to be Freudian. But I am very curious why you describe it in horror terms, almost like a twisted dwarf's nightmare? Please don't think anything of it. I know nothing of the bonsai art form and I stay away from gardens due to allergies.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2020 3:35:51 GMT
Please don't think anything of it. I know nothing of the bonsai art form and I stay away from gardens due to allergies. An allergy could do that. 
Oh, and I'm reminded of Freud and "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."  Sure. I hate gardens, summer, flowers and all that jazz.
Funerals
I love darkness, cold, winter, and more darkness.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 26, 2020 3:41:15 GMT
I love darkness, cold, winter, and more darkness.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 26, 2020 3:41:44 GMT
Sure. I hate gardens, summer, flowers and all that jazz.
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I love darkness, cold, winter, and more darkness.
Major Cramps fan here!!! Understandable. Lovely musicians.
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 26, 2020 9:44:01 GMT
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Aug 26, 2020 16:49:42 GMT
I was just going to mention the, but you beat me to it. We've been there several times. Like their gardens, and you can do them all in one day, unlike the NY Botanical gardens. Both wonderful! And to answer the post, I do love Bonsai trees, but couldn't care for one!
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 26, 2020 19:39:47 GMT
I love Bonsai trees. I would buy one this second if they weren't so difficult to take care of properly.
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Post by enigma72 on Aug 26, 2020 20:21:45 GMT
If there's one thing that haunted my childhood homelife, it was bonsai trees. I would save money to try and buy my mother a small cloisonne pot for her birthday and my sister liked those deadly dragon crystals, like those of swarovski. At times it felt like everything around me was miniature, including my mother, my sister and the women in my family. Things could quickly become claustrophobic, like I was living in a Charles Band horror movie. My mother was, probably, around 5'0" (shorter now), whereas my father was around 6'1", so my sister and I came out somewhere inbetween. We all admired the trees.
They have so much significance to you. Kind of stressful. One of my teachers had one in the classroom in 4th grade. She glowed about her tree. Seems like sometimes a tree/art form is more than its face value. On the other side Petro growing up with an artist mother must have its own interesting stories. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2020 20:38:57 GMT
I don't have the patience for one. Years ago I had one, it died. I ordered it from magazine or something, it was basically a twig. Nothing like the picture in the ad.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 27, 2020 0:54:23 GMT
If there's one thing that haunted my childhood homelife, it was bonsai trees. I would save money to try and buy my mother a small cloisonne pot for her birthday and my sister liked those deadly dragon crystals, like those of swarovski. At times it felt like everything around me was miniature, including my mother, my sister and the women in my family. Things could quickly become claustrophobic, like I was living in a Charles Band horror movie. My mother was, probably, around 5'0" (shorter now), whereas my father was around 6'1", so my sister and I came out somewhere inbetween. We all admired the trees.
They have so much significance to you. Kind of stressful. One of my teachers had one in the classroom in 4th grade. She glowed about her tree. Seems like sometimes a tree/art form is more than its face value. On the other side Petro growing up with an artist mother must have its own interesting stories.
You're right, enigma, these trees connect me to events both past and present, some more raw than others. It can be stressful, or can offer blessed relief, depending upon the context.
I think my mother does the temperament of an artist. She still performs music on her guitar at her local library and is right now painting cards for people of big cats (lions, tigers, leopards ...). She also makes decorative cakes for people, which again provides an additional source of income that can be valuable to a retiree.
I can picture a teacher glowing and it makes me think of the nuclear site Homer Simpson monitors.
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