Day Three (Aug. 29, Fri.)
from Colors of the DAY
茶色 cha-iro Brown. 黄土色 odo-iro Yellow ochre.
The tea color. Brown. Yellow earth color. Yellow ochre.
I see quite a few fallen leaves already on the streets. 枯葉 kare-ha Autumn leaves. Dried & dead leaves. A song.
An old woman’s cane that carries her solitude. The wooden bowls we eat the food from. The wicker basket where the bread rests. Part of the skin of a grilled fish I eat for lunch, which is closer to black but not quite, still staying brown. The surface of freshly baked bread is more like the color of falling leaves, but shinier. Quiet reddish brown clay flower pots & planters on the window sill. A boy’s pants & a girl’s boots, both brown, anxious for the new season. An old church’s tile/brick walls. An old church’s old wooden doors & a wooden cross. An old piano left alone with an old wooden chair. The wooden handle of an old hammer.
All brown.
Meditating on the brown in many things I’ve seen today, I lay down in the ochre-colored leather couch. With my eyes fixed on white of the ceiling, I soon realize that the wooden floor is pale ochre.
木 ki Tree. 樹 ki Tree. 樹々 kigi Trees. 森 mori Forest.
土 tsuchi Earth. 水 mizu Water. 空 sora Sky.
Amazingly, most things made of wood have the color brown or ochre: the color of the earth.
