Random Musing

[xyzzysqrl]

When I was a kid, and I'd just learned about bonsai, I was kind of interested in it. In part because I thought I had finally found an explanation for wicker furniture. (That furniture made out of wood, artfully configured to look like a series of twigs grown into the shape of said furniture.)

I used to imagine farmers carefully tending and binding large wicker bushes, carefully snipping here and tying off there to help the bush grow into the shape of a chair.

But then, I also believed if I picked off enough of the chair I was sitting in, it would curl up into a giant wicker ball with me helplessly trapped in the center forever. I miss being young and stupid.

Comments

[phennphawcks.livejournal.com]

*backs away slowly*

[slipscale.livejournal.com]

I <3 the way your mind works, Sqrl. :)

[rosycat.livejournal.com]

That's such a cool idea, sqrl !
I wish it were the reality. Be ever so much more interesting a way to create wicker furniture.
Although I wouldn't want to trap you in it :)

I *like* your ideas :) Being young doesn't necessarily mean stupid; it also means flexibility of thought, a way of not paying attention to the limiting effects of dull boring facts.

Yer cool, sqrl. :)

[ollieottah.livejournal.com]

who are you trying to kid, you are still young and stupid :P

[rosycat.livejournal.com]

Young, yes; and cool.

[xyzzysqrl]

Yeah, but I'm neither -as- young OR as stupid.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.

[shdragon.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm a random stalker. Found you linked through Dusty Rancourt's links a few times and some others. Now I just kinda stalk and check in now and then.

And I remember thinking the -exact same thing- about wicker chairs... Well, the part about picking too much at them and they'd *twanngngng* into a ball of wicker with me in the middle, atleast.

[xyzzysqrl]

Hello, random stalker!

I'm glad I wasn't alone on that, anyway.