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?
12 comments:
white...pure....not like me hot and greyish ;)
if i were pepper and there was no salt, how would i feel?
Lonely ???
because?
no salt ???....just a simple guess ...what do you think, Anne ??
what would pepper miss about the salt?
would it be the differences?
did you know that there is a little salt in pepper too...you would probably recognize salt then
i did not know that about pepper. i wonder about the pepper/salt connection.
I don't know you, but if you were pepper, I think you would love salt :-)
ii would love salt because?
Because it is different and it would enrich you(r flavor).
to be similar would impoverish?
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