Banzai!!! I mean Bon Sai!!!

I am in the beginning stages of learning to grow bon sai trees.  It's fun, it's new, and I'm already learning lessons from it.

Growing a bonsai tree is a long term hobby.  It requires patience and willingness to enjoy delayed gratifi-

cation.

There is work to be done shaping a bonsai.  I sat down for about an hour deciding how to shape my tree, then spent about an hour wiring it.  The next step is to wait several months.

Once I started a bonsai, this small scale tree caused me to start noticing the way trees grow in nature.  It caused me to think about the forces that led a tree to be shaped the way it is.  It caused me to observe trees and think.

Once I started one bonsai, I started looking for more trees to work with.

Martial arts training is a long term hobby too.  There is work to be done.  One must do the work then wait months to really see the results.  Learning about how the body moves in martial arts teaches more about how bodies move everyday.  Once you learn one thing in martial arts, the desire to learn more grows.