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Our culture is overflowing with advice about how to make money or how not to age, yet it offers little guidance on how to savor the time we have accumulated. By contrast, one man has deliberately shifted his life’s balance from production to enjoyment, embracing a willingness to learn so he can live by his own tastes.
Lee Un-cho fills the blank space retirement opened in his life with colored pencils. His new book, <Colored Pencil Picture Diary Rewritten at 60> (Shina Publishing), records three years of quiet daily moments in words and drawings, beginning in late 2022.
The book is full of the ease and romance he discovered after leaving a demanding workplace. He depicts the day he moved to Jeonju, leaving behind solitary years spent in Wanju’s open countryside, and he captures memories of a trip to Iceland in both prose and drawing. His modest, unadorned colored-pencil sketches and spare writing are light to read yet leave a lasting impression.
He says he is happily planning a contented life in retirement. Returning to the simple joy of a child clutching a crayon and wrestling with a sketchbook, he now colors each day with care. The pride he feels each time he completes an entry offers a healthy model for aging: retirement as not a loss but a time for new creation.
As the author modestly writes, \”I am embarrassed, but I present three years of my story.\” The book gently asks readers how they will face and record their everyday lives. It provides a quiet space for reflection to those who have set aside intense social roles and now stand at the threshold of a new life.
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