DAY 217
Plum Tree in snow Ohara Keizan hanging scroll color on silk
설중매화도(雪中梅花圖)
🖼 ONE LINE FROM THIS PAINTING
"What was the plum, blooming in the snow, enduring?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This painting by Ohara Keizan holds plum blossoms opening at the tips of snow-laden branches. It was drawn in Japan, yet the heart that prizes a flower amid the cold is one East Asia has shared. I see here the meaning of what blooms in the coldest time. The plum opens first, in the dead of winter when every other flower has drawn in. It opens its flower not after the warmth comes but while it is still cold. Not to wait for a good time but to give one's own light in the very midst of a hard time, that firmness makes the plum not a herald of spring but the beginning of spring.
— ONGO · Curator
🌱Apply It Today
Rather than waiting for conditions to be in place, settle on one thing to begin amid your present hardship.
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