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?
4 comments:
Both light the room....do you think a switch is better or a window ??...Perhaps i would prefer to be a window because it allows us to look outside :)
well......a window lets in darkness as well as light. it enables me to see rainbows as well as lightning when it flashes through the night sky.
a light switch lets me choose, darkness or light.....
And a switch controls the power on and off ....a window does not allow that ...
so a window is about going with what is...rather than controling it?
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