A little something

[Chris Di Nola]

I was asked to write this a few years back for a friend to put into her suiseki newsletter, some of you might have read this before thought that I'd share it with you all..

Hope you like it

Rocks in My Head

I started Bonsai in 1999, at a community collage in Bankstown, from the first class I was hooked, the more information I could get the better. I would be driving along & all of a sudden I would see a tree in a garden or park & dream of that tree in a pot, in my yard. Every class our teacher would bring in different trees into the class to help explain the different styles & techniques, then in this one class, all the trees she brought in where growing over rocks “Now that amazing!” I said, our teacher just smiled & continue to explain the finer details of this style, by the end of that class, I now started to notice rocks as well as bloody trees & started to collect nice ones to try this new style I had just learnt.

Well, the classes went on & I was so happy on Tuesday afternoons for I knew that for 2 hours that night bonsai was on the agenda, taking in little trees that we had been working on in varying stages, it was so much fun. Until one night the teacher walked into the room carrying nothing more than a box that looked quite heavy, where are the bonsais I thought to myself, “Tonight we are going to talk about Suiseki” our teacher explained. What in the bloody hell is that, I thought it sounded like trying to call a pig named Seki.

Well to my surprise out of the box came a whole other world, little mountains, small hut looking things & some abstract shape that resembled people & animals & they where all just rocks. As the night progressed, It was explained to me that they where referred to as stones not rocks (tomato, tomato) same thing just pronounced differently. She had stone from all over the world & most of them had little timber stand individually made for them, they where truly amazing, I really enjoyed the mountain stones & I astonished me that there little treasures where all made by Mother Nature herself.

The next day, I found myself looking through my collection of rocks for any that might resemble something Suiseki like, with a good imagination I had no problem in finding all the Suiseki I wanted, to tell you the truth I had nothing.

9 years on & my interest in Suiseki has grow somewhat, along with my knowledge of both bonsai & Suiseki. I take great pleasure in teasing a few of my very good friends about their Suiseki collections, I often asked them why they need so many paper weights & door stops, but to tell you the truth I also have a few hidden away at home.


I have been giving some thought to all the differing aspects of Suiseki & this is what I’ve come up with:
Musical Suiseki = The Rolling the Stones.
Dispute Suiseki = When the Palestinians give the Israeli tanks Suiseki.
Proverb Suiseki = A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Cartoon Suiseki = Fred Flintstone & his daughter pebbles.
Australian Movie Suiseki = Picnic at hanging rock.
Noel’s Suiseki = The stone age.
Medical Suiseki = The Gall Stone.
Hunting Suiseki = To kill two birds with one stone.
Food Suiseki = Rock Lobster.
Australian Saying Suiseki = Stone the crows.
Discipline Suiseki = The Romans gave the Christians discipline with Suiseki.
Spice Suiseki = Rock Salt.
Sweet Suiseki = Rocky Road.
Bad situation Suiseki = Between a Rock & a hard place.
Destination Suiseki = Rockhampton.
Lullaby Suiseki = Rock-a-bye baby.
Furniture Suiseki = Rocking chair.
Archaeological Suiseki = Stone Henge.
Tradesman Suiseki = Stone Mason.
UBD Suiseki = Stony Creek Road.
Distance Suiseki = Just a stones throw away.
Sexy Suiseki = Sharon Stone.
Love Suiseki = Romancing the stone.
Gay Suiseki = Rock Hudson.
Queen Suiseki = We will Rock you.
Temperature Suiseki = Stone cold.
Impossible Suiseki = To get Blood from a stone.
Dumb Suiseki = To have rock in my head.

I hope you had a bit of a laugh reading this, can you think of anything else that might be funny, there has to be more of them.

Thank for reading
Skippy

[Handy Mick]

Hi skip, although I'm not into stones and rocks there are some good ones there.
Rock on, rock and roll, scissors paper rock, rocks in your head, I'm stoned man, Aryes rock, & rocky mountains, rock a dye baby.

Mick

[kcpoole]

Quite "out there" eh Skippy

What about
Astronaut Suiseki = Moon Rocks
Presidential Suiseki - Little Rock, Arkansas

Kene

[chrisatrocky]

How about
big sumo suiseki= 45 stone
hippy suiseki= just stoned

[Chris Di Nola]

keep them coming guys

[Trent McKenzie]

Bra suiseki = over the shoulder boulder holder