Bamboo Branch with Berries and Bir

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is an anonymous Chinese painting in which a bird rests on a bamboo branch hung with berries. The refinement of Chinese ink-bamboo painting runs through it, yet the meaning bamboo holds rings true in any land. In this painting I see supple strength. Bamboo sways in the wind but does not break, and because it is hollow within, it stands all the straighter. To be strong is not to be stiff; it endures long because it knows how to bend. Bending is not weakness but another kind of strength, the strength of refusing to be broken.