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Remember the small things that cause you feel alive |
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By Mª José Perez & Jaume Elias My adventure with the bonsai began more or less in the spring of 1987, almost 20 years ago. Up till then I never heard about the bonsai. It was a companion that followed a short course in Barcelona who talks to me about bonsai the first time. In those times here in the pyrenee of Lleida nobody had information that could serve me of orientation. I had to do my experiments with his successes failures and after two or three years I found the book of John Naka and the magazine Bonsai Actual, and they were the foundation of my hobby, from here we can talk about... adequate progresses. I had to do my own tools, pots, substrates, etc... In the 93 we form the Pallars Bonsai Association of which I still am the President. Through this association I have been able to give courses and to extend the hobby in the region.
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Also from 1993 I began to go to almost all the Congresses and events related, is where I have done good friends as Alfredo, who has encouraged me to write these lines, and so many others that sure they will take the hint. This is what moves you to do hundreds of kilometres like the last National Bonsai Congress in Murcia, 1300 kilometres in the car, my wife tells me that I am a lunatic and I tell her that if I can see a single tree and to speak with a friend to “recharge my batteries” I will be satisfied. I always say that always remains a lot by learning. As this number is about the Scots pine I would like to include a couple of photos of two of my favourite. I don’t know how many years have passed, but even with the very poor quality of the pictures you can appreciate that I still had hair. |
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To finish my presentation I would like to include the point of view of someone that knows me well, my friend and wife Mª José. |
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I remember my first trip to Burgos. One of my fellow travellers was an enormous Celtis australis (even a little Latin I have learned in this world, something that was impossible in early school years). Even if I had spent a pile of hours in the rear seat of a car, accompanied by this enormous bonsai, who I could not speak, neither be able to say… you are hindering me! With this first experience you can think that the bonsai world is not something I like. Sincerely, I love to see an exposition and everything that involves, to travel, to know people, new places... although be several times to the same city and to know it almost as if to live in her, but I, with a look to the trees have sufficient, on the other hand Jaume never is in a hurry, always needs more time... a while more, therefore.. I stamp the city all alone and always I finish by buying him a nice book of the cathedral of the city, so that at home he can see something.
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But I will tell you something, thanks in part to this hobby, one of the most important people for me in this life, realized that in spite of its accident and that alone had one hand, enormous but just one, could do all. He never said "to here I can arrive". When I see him to wire a tree with his hook I can assure you a thing, I feel proud. Yes, proud, by having beside me a person that in spite of his circumstance has known to be faced life and has said "here I am". He could have been depressed or to say "I do not be able", on the other side "thanks by this new opportunity". |
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I can assure you that is gratitude is enormous, therefore, since then, he tests all the hobbies that he believes "I will not be able to do" .... oil painting, beekeeping horse ridding, to restore antiquities, to work the wood with a feeling that touches me and as not... its small trees. I can tell you that Jaume utilizes a phrase that says. ....¿whom said fear? has always the challenge to try. ..¿what can I do? Sometimes they ask me. ..And you, what is your hobby? after seeing everything that he does, I answer, I? None, I suppose that they understand it, because my hobby is to see and to live all those of the, I do not need more, thus I am happy.
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Therefore friends...VIVAN THE BONSÁIS and the hours that I have passed, alone walking through cities, while Jaume was locked in a bonsai Congress, knowing that I would buy him a book so that he also know a bit of the city. What was a challenge I help it to be surpassed ...y that way! I only want to thank Alfredo to have offered me this. And as the always it says. ....Remember the small things that cause you feel alive. |
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