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:
I hope to be uncharted seas ....wider and deeper ....
how might uncharted seas regard an oasis?
Rested....still...calm :)
so a wider and deeper sea might not be as rested and calm?
hmmm....can :)...why not ??Anne, what would you rather be ?? And why ??
there are aspects of being an oasis that appeals to me. i like being that with mybfriends. however, my nature is more like the uncharted seas....
you could if you got bored of the sea of sand
would an oasis regard the sandunes of the desert as uncharted seas?
seas...are water ....sand...are solid....they have differences :)
ah, but the dunes might ripple like waves.....
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