DogwoodApprentice
Yamadori
Indeed, first and foremost. Any active collectors up that way you know? Tyler gave me the green light to seek out any already collected material for sale
Chronicles of Dogwood Studios Apprentice
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DogwoodApprentice
Yamadori
Dogwood Chronicles #8
With many 65° days this February, and most everything in the garden and forest around us pushing, fertilization has begun. Liquid and bio gold en masse. God, I want a dosatron.
With many 65° days this February, and most everything in the garden and forest around us pushing, fertilization has begun. Liquid and bio gold en masse. God, I want a dosatron.
DogwoodApprentice
Yamadori
Dogwood Chronicles #9
I love to romanticize the journey. The singular focus on something like the pursuit of artistic craft, its a high ideal for sure. There's this book, Mastery by Robert Greene. He talks about a mentality one can adopt of romanticizing the suffering and sacrifice for the greater payoff. I lean into this my first spring as an apprentice. As I'm prepping to move from the housing I just moved into 3.5 months ago to a much closer apartment, I get strep. No sweat, I often am subject to it, and the VA sends me the atomic level I need as a chronic sufferer. I take no days off. Antibiotics make you sensitive to the sun. Resultingly, my hands look like lobster claws. This is the price I must pay for me to live my dream, I don't care.
Also, something has fucked up my knees to my mid shin. I'm afflicted with a myriad of skin maladies, you guys. Woe, the lowly garden apprentice.
Tyler is gone this week. From our conversations throughout my first 90 days, he has made it clear that I am free to go to my level of comfort working on any tree, usually given a list of must-accomplish first. When that list is finished, there's always more work to do. It is incredibly exciting to make the big cuts alone, to push trees to be better this year than they were the last, and in turn pushing myself.
Our largest intensive classes are happening next month, can't wait.
I love to romanticize the journey. The singular focus on something like the pursuit of artistic craft, its a high ideal for sure. There's this book, Mastery by Robert Greene. He talks about a mentality one can adopt of romanticizing the suffering and sacrifice for the greater payoff. I lean into this my first spring as an apprentice. As I'm prepping to move from the housing I just moved into 3.5 months ago to a much closer apartment, I get strep. No sweat, I often am subject to it, and the VA sends me the atomic level I need as a chronic sufferer. I take no days off. Antibiotics make you sensitive to the sun. Resultingly, my hands look like lobster claws. This is the price I must pay for me to live my dream, I don't care.
Also, something has fucked up my knees to my mid shin. I'm afflicted with a myriad of skin maladies, you guys. Woe, the lowly garden apprentice.
Tyler is gone this week. From our conversations throughout my first 90 days, he has made it clear that I am free to go to my level of comfort working on any tree, usually given a list of must-accomplish first. When that list is finished, there's always more work to do. It is incredibly exciting to make the big cuts alone, to push trees to be better this year than they were the last, and in turn pushing myself.
Our largest intensive classes are happening next month, can't wait.
DogwoodApprentice
Yamadori
Dogwood Chronicles #10
A couple items to gauge interest
I've been speaking with Tyler about doing something for Veteran's Day. Perhaps an open house. I come from spending just under a decade on active duty, our garden manager a Marine vet, are both always warmed us to see our fellow veterans in the intensive classes. I know at my home club Triangle Bonsai Society there's a large veteran preference as well. Would be rad to have a gathering.
Announcing Dogwood Studios...Stays? Sleeps? Name is a Work In Progress
If Chronicles #9 didn't clue you in, I embrace the nut part of this thing we do. I know there are other young people out there that want to be as tuned into this thing as we are at Dogwood Studios. When I did an intensive with Todd in Denver, I slept on a camp futon at my buddy's house an hour away to save money on accommodation. Getting a hotel doubles how much an intensive weekend learning costs. This isn't an issue for some and a total nonstarter for others. Tyler is from, and loves to be, from Hickory, NC. Not many people have buddies couches they can crash on within a daily drive of Hickory, NC. I'll be your buddy. Beginning in April, I will be 10 minutes from the garden. Travel to/from garden included. $75/weekend Can offer pick up / drop off at Charlotte-Douglas Int'l for additional $75. This is really to encourage more young guys to advance their skillset with one of the best in the country than anything. Hit my pm if this sounds compelling
A couple items to gauge interest
I've been speaking with Tyler about doing something for Veteran's Day. Perhaps an open house. I come from spending just under a decade on active duty, our garden manager a Marine vet, are both always warmed us to see our fellow veterans in the intensive classes. I know at my home club Triangle Bonsai Society there's a large veteran preference as well. Would be rad to have a gathering.
Announcing Dogwood Studios...Stays? Sleeps? Name is a Work In Progress
If Chronicles #9 didn't clue you in, I embrace the nut part of this thing we do. I know there are other young people out there that want to be as tuned into this thing as we are at Dogwood Studios. When I did an intensive with Todd in Denver, I slept on a camp futon at my buddy's house an hour away to save money on accommodation. Getting a hotel doubles how much an intensive weekend learning costs. This isn't an issue for some and a total nonstarter for others. Tyler is from, and loves to be, from Hickory, NC. Not many people have buddies couches they can crash on within a daily drive of Hickory, NC. I'll be your buddy. Beginning in April, I will be 10 minutes from the garden. Travel to/from garden included. $75/weekend Can offer pick up / drop off at Charlotte-Douglas Int'l for additional $75. This is really to encourage more young guys to advance their skillset with one of the best in the country than anything. Hit my pm if this sounds compelling
DogwoodApprentice
Yamadori
Dogwood Chronicles #11
https://www.instagram.com/p/DI4rWjRRT-E/
Success in New England. Two really cool fir, and some interesting pines. Spent time with Mark Comstock. The man makes the best JBP stock this side of the mississippi for my money. It's always good to see him. Tyler told me it was mediocre material but was proud of me for going. Tough love, a featured trademark of apprenticeship. The firs are now pushing their lime green extensions and I love them regardless.
Solo man in the garden for the next week. Big Boss with his clients in Atlanta, Garden Manager away on a bachelor party weekend to Hilton Head.
Much audiobooking has been consumed in the 42 hours / 2400 mile over 5 day trip. Not to mention the recent months of frequent solitude. Of the handful finished on the trip, the 1936 classic How to Win Friends and Influence People. I found it incredibly insightful and still totally applicable in modern life, 10/10, no notes.
A lot happening in the world, a lot happening in the garden (Including a 1400lb shipment from the Backcountry Boys). I can only have an effect on one.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DI4rWjRRT-E/
Success in New England. Two really cool fir, and some interesting pines. Spent time with Mark Comstock. The man makes the best JBP stock this side of the mississippi for my money. It's always good to see him. Tyler told me it was mediocre material but was proud of me for going. Tough love, a featured trademark of apprenticeship. The firs are now pushing their lime green extensions and I love them regardless.
Solo man in the garden for the next week. Big Boss with his clients in Atlanta, Garden Manager away on a bachelor party weekend to Hilton Head.
Much audiobooking has been consumed in the 42 hours / 2400 mile over 5 day trip. Not to mention the recent months of frequent solitude. Of the handful finished on the trip, the 1936 classic How to Win Friends and Influence People. I found it incredibly insightful and still totally applicable in modern life, 10/10, no notes.
A lot happening in the world, a lot happening in the garden (Including a 1400lb shipment from the Backcountry Boys). I can only have an effect on one.
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