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"The Fruitface Mandala" |
I sat today eating a banana while looking out the window at a blizzard. As inch after inch built up, I began to feel that dread - what if it never stopped. So little really separates humanity in terms of temperature and weather from obliteration. A few degrees colder, a few days longer.... and none of us would survive. To me the banana is not just a banana, it is also a symbol of fertility, a tropical fruit from warm places far away. The banana is taken for granted as we put it in our mouth in the middle of a blizzard, in Alaska or Antarctica, the banana is there. It is the focal point of my mandala. Dreamily I gaze upon it, like a prayer, sweet and ripe, sustaining. |