Crows and Bare Trees in Winter <sp
"Is the winter tree that has shed all its leaves dead, or is it enduring?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This anonymous Chinese ink painting holds, in winter, bare trees that have shed all their leaves, and crows. The scene of birds settled on stripped branches is desolate. Yet the winter tree that has cast off all its leaves is not dead but in a state of having gathered everything inward, stored away for spring. This principle held in the bare tree is constant in any land. Here I see the season of emptying. The time that seems to have lost everything is in truth the time of firming the inside most deeply. That the outside is stripped does not mean the inside is empty too. Winter is not an end but a preparing.
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