![]() ![]() The anxiety about spontaneity and the desire to manage our time means that certain conversations tend to fall away.” Handling things online feels like the beginnings of a solution: At least we can answer questions at our convenience and edit our responses to get them “right.” Across generations, people struggle to control what feels like an endless stream of “incoming” – information to assimilate and act on and interactions to manage. This reticence about conversation in “real time” is not confined to the young. “A young man in his senior year of high school makes things clear: “What’s wrong with conversation? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with conversation! It takes place in real time and you can’t control what you’re going to say.” Here’s renowned researcher Sherry Turkle describing the problem in her book Reclaiming Conversation: He planted it himself.Ĭonversations make a lot of people nervous.ħ5% of millennials and gen-z prefer texting to talking, and it’s clear why. While I originally imagined purchasing a small, baby tree, Victor told me this tree was already 25 years old. I was immediately drawn to a specific bonsai. Words can’t describe how magical his shop is. I’d driven past the tiny shop for years without ever knowing it existed. It turned out his Connecticut location was merely 5 minutes from an apartment Lindsey and I shared when we were dating. It was the first bonsai store of its kind in NYC. Victor had previously founded Bonsai Dynasty, Inc in New York City and ran it from 1976 to 1991. I discovered a beautiful store called Bonsai Gardens of Connecticut owned and operated by Victor Eng. My wife Lindsey and I had just purchased a house with the intention of starting a family, and I thought a bonsai would be a great housewarming gift for the two of us, a living thing that our future kids would come to love and nurture as they grew up. ![]() I’d always wanted a bonsai tree, and a few years back decided it was time. It’s a motif that carries through the entire original trilogy and still features prominently in the new series Cobra Kai. ![]() Miyagi teaches scrappy Daniel Larusso about patience and inner peace by learning to sculpt, nurture, and define miniature trees. My fascination with Bonsai trees started just like everyone from my generation: The Karate Kid. ![]()
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