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?
6 comments:
The bloody red sweetness of life :)
very well said, s.a.....
what would rhe cheese be?
The soft-white yellowish fragrace of life :)....
and if it is mozzarella, would it be stringy, too?
I dun know what is mozzarella :(....what is that ?? Stringy as in ??
sorry....and thanks for asking. mozzarella is the kind of cheese that goes on a pizza. it tends to be very stringy.
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