Your Crayons

"These guys are out for your crayons"

The most impactful book I ever read was Harold and the Purple Crayon*. In the book, the kid has this magic purple crayon. Whatever he draws turns real!!! This story is always with me because I found one of those crayons and I have been using it ever since.

In fact, you too, have a magic purple crayon. Let's say that you do, but you did not know. Then maybe you would go around perhaps feeling victimized by all the powers affecting you over which you have no control. But all along you had the crayon.

Maybe you once had the crayon, but lost it because someone convinced you it was worthless. Do you remember being a little kid and playing pretend? You had it then.

In fact you still do. We all have a full set of magic crayons, as well as a magical universe in which we can make, do, and be anything we choose. Of course, the medium has more dimensions than a sheet of paper. Time is involved.

So why then, have we created so many of the problems in the world today? Why must we scribble such dark lines all over the place?

So if we want to make something else, we can. So far, we have some good ideas in development, and some sketches. Have you figured out where your purple crayon is yet?

(*if you would like to have Harold and the Purple Crayon read to you:)

"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."

-Al Hirschfeld