Monsters That We Draw

When my daughter was very young, she was busy coloring and drawing  when all of a sudden she started  crying and screaming as if she was terrified. Her mother went running over to her and asked her what was wrong. My daughter answered, " I drew a picture of a monster, and that monster scared me, Mommy"

Her mother and I laughed and laughed about that later that night, and I still laugh when I think of that story . We so often draw, or invent our own monsters in our lives, and then scream in terror because we are scared of a monster that we made up. The world that we see is the world that we draw in our minds.