Cupped Hands
The Bonsai Speech was a speech required by our professor for our Speech 30 class, defined as a persuasive speech about something that we love, scaled down to a cupped hand's size (aka, should only last around 3 minutes). Image of a Bonsai tree from Crown Asia. Speech proper (Note: Some of the words were modified to fit the piece better in written form compared to spoken) I love love, but forgive me if I cannot scale it down to a cupped hand’s size. Perhaps I could, but only if my cupped hands had crevices where the love could seep through, forming a puddle before a pool to reach the pinnacle of a plateau. Perhaps I could, if the cup were 1 Corinthians 13:4 & 7: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy , it does not boast, it is not proud . It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. Except, 1 Corinthians never mentioned that love would become bloody on a wooden cross. Perhaps I could when people declare ...