i am a painter who began my career as a child coloring outside the lines of my coloring books. i am a writer who started out by composing adventure stories while riding my stick horse around the backyard. as a child, i got in trouble for asking too many questions...i question that.
"the emperor's new clothes" by hans christian andersen
this fairy tale has been a companion to me as i have traveled through my life.
briefly, it is about an emperor who was deceived by two tailors who said they were making a set of clothing out of a "dream" fabric. in reality, they used no fabric at all. to make their scam complete, they announced that only those who were wise enough would be able to see the beautiful clothing. and so, no one, not even the emperor, admitted to being unable to see it.
wearing his new "clothing", the emperor paraded through his kingdom. no one questioned his appearance; no one wished to appear less than wise.
until a small child asked, "why is the emperor not wearing any clothes?"
so it is that i ask, if i question rather than believe i am wise, what will i see?
10 comments:
If you are anything, could that mean you are also nothing?
do you think you are nothing?
i guess it depends on how one defines nothing.
perhaps i am a story few people know. a story that will be forgotten.
If I can be anything............
What if that people, who know the story, tell it to their descent?
well then, that is a gift. to continue on in story form.
to have one's name spoken aloud for generations.....
I like legends and myths...
yes. and that is what i want to write. i miss it when i am away from those images. yet, there are times to write and times not to.
...as they are times to everything.
Liked that.
do you know that song....turn, turn turn......?
the byrds recorded it as did others.
Laugh comes to me again.
Yes, an awsome song.
to laugh is the best thing......it lightens everything up.
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