The ocean is wisdom, I couldn't tell you anything because one never knows what in the ocean could happen. Its waves could drive us or could make us to get lost.
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?
13 comments:
Would you do it if you see mine?
if i saw your reflection in a river, i might look up at the sky......to see if your image floated above me in a cloud.
Maybe I'm under water waiting for you to want to travel to the ocean with me...
well, then, i must hurry and learn to breathe under water.
Amazing.
I could teach you...
and if i learn another way of breathing, will i be ready for the vastness of the ocean?
The ocean is wisdom, I couldn't tell you anything because one never knows what in the ocean could happen. Its waves could drive us or could make us to get lost.
so i travel to the ocean so that i can experience not having any idea of what will happen next?
so i travel to the ocean so that i can experience not having any idea of what will happen next?
An adventure...why not?
a very interesting definition of adventure. i like it.
I'm a liker of it too.
a new way to orient myself to the adventure to life.........
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