requiem for a different dream...

i am considering committing to thirty-one days of blog posts during that month whose name we no longer speak... maybe. this was prompted by a recent revelation when i grabbed a piece of paper and started to make a list of things i meant to get around to blogging about, but never did. then it got worse when i took a quick glance at a few pages of old posts, and i realized how many more things i said i would revisit, but i never did. so now i want to commit to spending Jultember tying up loose ends... maybe.

i will revisit one recent topic right now.

if you have been following along with this week of posts, you may recall my lofty dream of starting a bonsai from scratch. i did note that i have a habit of killing such things. well, it is less than a week later, and that prophecy has been fulfilled.

i am going to call this one requiem for a different dream.

sayōnara, future-bonsai. i am sure it would have been grand.

i would like it noted, in my defense, that he was the one who procured the young seedling from among his precious balcony plants. he plucked the thing out of the soil as though it was a weed. i have instructed him to use a trowel next time to keep the soil intact around the roots, which implies that i might give this whole crazy plan another try... maybe.