White Pine Bonsai looking good at 350+years young.
What does the celebrated Red Carpet star have in common with the treasured Bonsai Tree?
The Asian art of cultivating perfectly proportioned Bonsai trees, is achieved through surgical pruning. Stunting it’s growth is a balancing act of stressing the tree without killing it, producing exemplary specimens that appear ageless to the untrained eye.
The Eastern skill of snipping and paring down a Bonsai seems to have taken root in the western aesthetic…just in a different arena. Our focus on personal appearance has reached new highs in an attempt to maintain that youthful glow.
We rely on outside help to keep ourselves feeling fit for love and relationships, just as the Bonsai tree depends on the hands of a master caretaker to hold its place as an icon of beauty.
Group Hug around giant Sequoia Tree.
Do you want to be like that perfectly preened… look but don’t touch… Bonsai tree, or akin to the free growing Sequoia in the Redwood Forest? Both genus are admired and outlive the norm, yet they attract different life experiences.
We’re for finding balance in the search for exterior beauty. No need to have the appearance of an untended garden. Pick your priorities. Julie loves her lipstick while Jennie goes for the hair.
I Love you often…just not always, means you don’t have to strive for perfection.
Julie and Jennie
I think many of us strive for perfection . Whether or not we achieve it only the mirror knows. O f course there is inner perfection and maybe more of us should be working on that.
I think I am a Horse Chestnut… tree wise.
I am an “introduced species” (as most of us are, apologies to our native American friends, in every respect). I am tall but a little twisted, I have coarse bark, pruning would be futile, my roots are deep and suck up all the water I can get, I have smelly flowers, I drop my seeds indiscriminately, but I am home to lots of birds and squirrels.
I am SO a Sequoia! All solid and sappy at the same time. The only thing I’m good at pruning are my fingertips as they see way too much water from dishes and laundry.
The lentil soup is on the menu for tomorrow night. Many thanks in advancefor a warm winter night.
And lastly, it looks as if we share the same four walls for office space. Thanks for peeking into mine. I look forward to coming back!
My first time here….Hummers….Sequoias…..Bonsai….such a diversity of metaphors for the concept of ILYO….I would like to think of myself as a Sequoia, but in reality I think I’m really an Olive Tree!!!! Julie, ILYA. Whoosh.