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:
Do you prefer hands or feet ??
i can walk on my hands on tbe rug but i would rather not eat with my feet....
what becomes of the tablecloth when it is removed from the table?
if the rug is hung on the wall, what then?
Depends on how used is the tablecloth, are you thinking that a tablecloth may become a rug ??...Do we hang a used rug on a wall ??
sometimes antique woven rugs are hung on walls as if they are art. a tablecloth might be too lightweight to use as a rug.
i could sit on a rug and have an indoor picnic...not quite a tablecloth...
a tablecloth could be a site of nourishment.
each are different but yet, have things in common, it seems...
a rug...you can vibrate to the running feet of kids and dogs
nice.....
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