A world of wonder filled with colours carrying messages.
These messages of many shades offering their wisdom.
Who stops and listens to the message meant for them alone?
Obangsaek (오방색) in Korean roughly translates as five colours.
Red: South, Fire, Authority, Happiness
Blue: East, Wood, Youth, Hope
Yellow: Centre, Earth, Wealth, Fertility
White: West, Metal, Purity, Moderation
Black: North, Water, Death, Dignity
The knocking of wood echoing throughout the Winter forest.
Searching for treasures hidden among the morning shadows.
What will be revealed but the spirit of the one searching?
On a cold morning, Sunshine reaches out in a warm embrace.
The light of day is for rest while the night is for survival.
What will be found and lost searching for the comforts in life?
A family of trees, forever green in the coldest of seasons.
The family holding a hunter of the night, silent on the wing.
Persistent in their aims, yet I must know, why is this so?
Watching the world continue along a course to the unknown.
Returning once again to those places of new beginnings.
Who will tell your stories of yesterdays and tomorrow?
Seeking new lands, only for a short while, a traveller waits.
Waiting for answers, the traveller reflects on the present.
Who is this traveller and who offers the answers they seek?
Sounds of Nature singing all around, an orchestra of joy.
One sitting silently, listening in appreciation.
What song is heard by the soul of the one sitting silently?
Fading sunset over snowy fields on the Solstice of Winter.
Seeking the new season: a pair of travellers from afar.
Finding peace in the present moment is the eternal truth.
A winged messenger from the North stands at the entrance to Winter.
A change of season and time for transformation of dark and light.
What will be lost and found in the arrival of the new season?
A bold colour of life contrasting brightly for all to see.
The coldness of the world and the season fading slowly.
What is it we seek in those briefest of moments of stillness?