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:
The stars would be the reborn :)....
and will i always just see them from a distance?
Do you consider your life as a sunset ??
well, i had not thought of that before. so, i would say that it is a continual sunset in the midst of an ongoing sunrise.
haha...not the mid-day high hanging sun ???
it would rather glide than hang in the sky....
Huh ?? Sun glide ??...i thought only kites glide through the wind....:)
well, it moves along slowly and gracefully. maybe i have invented a new term...sunglide!
The movement of sun--
sunglide :)....i like the idea of slowly and gracefully...you are so clever :)....
thanks! and thanks for the conversation.....
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