DAY 350
Flower Vendor <span class="mw-vali — 작자 미상
Flower Vendor <span class="mw-vali 작자 미상 · 14th century · Wikimedia Commons Public Domain View source ↗

Flower Vendor <span class="mw-vali

꽃 파는 사람
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING

"What does a vendor carrying a load of flowers through the streets carry?"

📝ONGO's Reflection

This is a Chinese painting of unknown hand, holding a vendor who circles the streets with a full load of flowers on his back. What he carries is not merely goods to sell but the joy of bringing the news of spring and a brightness to house after house. He bears a heavy load, yet that load becomes delight to others. In this vendor I see the meaning of work. The same load, taken only as weight, becomes drudgery; but knowing that it is a joy reaching someone changes one's step. One who knows what their load becomes, and to whom, carries the reward beyond the weight along with it.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Recall what joy, and to whom, the load of your own work becomes.

📜 HANJA IN THIS WORK
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