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:
Must the first word always be the letter "a" as drawn in your pic ??...Did we sentence the letter "a" ???
It was that the first word in the dictionary would start with "a"......
Huh ???....hahaha...I can't get you
:(....
Well, i was confusing probably......
"A" is the first word in the english dictionary. Yes.....
But when i drew this, i was thinking of a longer word.
What if i had drawn the word "actor" ....would that word rather be a sentence?
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Love this, r!
And then there's b.......
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