The Writing Bug—
Perhaps many writers have this awkward experience—when someone is touched by something they’ve written, quotes it, and looks expectantly for a response. The moment stretches on a bit longer than it should, though, as they’ve no memory of writing it. Well, that has happened to me. Twice in the last month, in fact, I’ve had […]
‘Post-Dated’: translated!
Last year my book Post-Dated: The Schooling of an Irreverent Bonsai Monk was translated and featured in the German bonsai magazine, Bonsai Art. Bonsai Art is similar to Bonsai Focus. The book was translated by Heike van Gunst and serialized in the magazine over eight installments in 2010. I’ve discovered that many ‘books’ used to be serialized first […]
David DeGroot’s Foreword to Post-Dated
Foreword Post-Dated by Michael Hagedorn is a compelling tale of two journeys that the author took during approximately two and a half years of a bonsai apprenticeship in Japan. The two journeys were taken simultaneously—one journey being the events, activities, and accountabilities of daily life, and the other being the intellectual and emotional journey of […]
