Leanna Banana

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^{Posted by Leanna - Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 7:23am}

each beat of your heart is

“Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away.”

― Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
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^{Posted by Leanna - Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 6:53am}

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"She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.”

― Susan Minot, Evening

^{Posted by Leanna - Friday, May 15, 2015 - 10:00pm}

I'll be the only fox in the world for you.

"Good morning," the little prince said, though when he turned around, he saw nothing.

"I'm here," the voice said. "Under the tree."

"Who are you?" the little prince asked. "You're very pretty."

"I'm a fox," the fox said.

"Come and play with me," the little prince offered. "I'm feeling so sad."

"I can't play with you," the fox said. "I'm not tamed."

"Ah! Excuse me," said the little prince, "What does tamed mean?"

"You're not from around here," the fox said. "What are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for friends," said the little prince. "What does tamed mean?"

"It's something that's been too often neglected. It means, 'to create ties'..."

"'To create ties'?"

"That's right," the fox said. "For me, you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. For you, I'm only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we'll need each other. You'll be the only boy in the world for me. I'll be the only fox in the world for you."

"I'm beginning to understand..." the little prince said.

"If you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over there? You have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful, once you've tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat..."

The fox fell silent and stared at the little prince for a long time. "Please... tame me!"

"I'd like to," the little prince replied, "but I haven't much time. I have friends to find and so many things to learn."

"The only things you learn are the things you tame," said the fox. "If you want a friend, tame me."

"What do I have to do?" asked the little prince.

"You have to be very patient," the fox answered. "First you'll sit down a little ways away from me, over there, in the grass. But day by day, you'll be able to sit a little closer. I shall watch you out of the corner of my eye and you will say nothing," said the fox. "Language is the source of misunderstandings..."

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Anna & Leanna

^{Posted by Leanna - Friday, May 15, 2015 - 1:13pm}

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Cali is so pretty when she cries.
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^{Posted by Leanna - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 1:18pm}

Good morning, San Clemente.

waning crescent flower moon.

The objects you hold dear
are vessels for greater ideas.

^{Posted by Leanna - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 4:34am}

' fairytale '

"The usual aim of the fable is to teach a lesson by drawing attention to animal behavior and its relationship to human actions and shortcomings. Animals in fables speak metaphorically of human nature. The animal is not the real subject of the story; rather a demonstration of the parallel distances between two worlds."

Depending upon how the animal in your dream is presented, and what it is doing, dream animals represent your basic needs and drives stripped of their social forms of expression-- at their most raw.

As such, the animal can portray your relationship with the unconscious fundamental life processes in you. Dreams depict these processes as intelligent and responsive. Remember when looking at the animal in your dreams, you yourself are an animal. You as a person, are a tiny spark of consciousness, a little bit of self awareness riding an incredibly ancient animal you call your body. Your body has formed from cells and genetic information that has gradually developed over millions of years. It holds this information within its subconscious. The animal in your dreams depicts this ancient wisdom and how you relate to it. It shows you how you are dealing with the urges in you that are natural, but might need to be transformed in some way.

Animals are one of the most frequent of symbols that appear in dreams. Because we project characteristics onto animals, we may therefore dream of an animal to represent the feelings we have about a person or circumstance. Dream animals are complex symbols, and they portray a wide spectrum of meaning. Each animal is also given an entry, as the character of the various animals suggests different things to us. They are giving you insight into how to care for the instinctive, the spontaneous, and the natural in you.

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^{Posted by Leanna - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 12:00pm}

may mankind's heart; be both bitter and sweet

'Give us
this day
orange daylight,
and every day,
and may mankind's heart,
and its clusters of fruit,
be both bitter and sweet:
may it hold and protect
the earth's
mysterious
simplicity,
and the perfect oneness
of an orange.'

via
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^{Posted by Leanna - Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 11:50am}

thirst

"Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion."
―Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

^{Posted by Leanna - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 3:08pm}

her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions

Her life with others

no longer interests him.

He wants only her stalking beauty,

her theatre of expressions.

He wants the minute secret

reflection between the two of them,

the depth of field minimal,

their foreignness intimate

like two pages of a closed book.

Ondaatje

apgibson:

Today I began work on a new series. I am shooting with the intention to not retouch any of the shots. This is one of the shots from the series. Thank you for helping with this project Leanna.

“Fear comes piercing through the silence

“In the air, the scent of violence

“Watching from above the trees

“We’re the ones that still believe”

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^{Posted by Leanna - Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 3:05pm}