Big thanks! It’s quite intimidating and scary sometimes as a beginner when you are greeted with “the sideye” kind of like I can’t be seen as a good bonsai artist unless I prove I am even though my journey has just begun.
I mean no one is perfect, we can all learn from eachother.
No negativity I just want to see more equality in bonsai and I want people like me and many others to feel like they’re greeted with loving arms from masters and OGs.
I do get help here and there tho…
And to you and other knowledgeable bonsai people, who are actually nice and help practitioners and beginners…
Thank you, you inspire people like me!
Let’s learn and grow> (literally) together!
Haha!!!!
You are a lot like me, my friend.
I've been "speaking out" against hostility and pompousness against newbies and NON-fundamentalists pretty much my entire tenure here!
I did "welcome committee" for a while here, trying to give every newcomer a warm and inviting "hello".
Things like collecting trees/wiring/selecting stock/planting seeds/ experimenting with species....become very stressful and anxiety ridden for newcomers based ONLY on what the old grumps tell them!
That being said, the "Rules" ARE fundamentally important to know, and more consequently to UNDERSTAND "why" they exist.
If you'd like to, you can throw a PM my way and we can have a rolling plant conversation... I like to get to know new people, TRULY love helping and will never judge/berate...Only guide and learn with.
I'd always say, "This place is a wonderfully freaky communal bazaar, specializing in knowledge and experience.... Take what you need.... Give what you can."
