Poor story telling on F-san's part?
Really, he just gives away the chapter in the first sentence, right?
Oh the story in between, all the trees, all the roof tiles... the humanity, oh the humanity...For thirty years I lived only in my farming and had little contact with people outside my community.
We seem to have rejected doing nothing, but we have not rejected doing less. Sensei rejects pruning entirely, a leap I am not ready to make yet. Who gets hurt? Me? The tree? Who loses? Both of us? What say does the tree have in this exchange, and which of us knows trees better? Trees or baka?
Moo.
The best bonsai in a show I once went to (a crabapple collected from a hedgerow), had the following under the line for Training...
"Owner, 2 years. Cows 120 years"
Moo.
HG