by Bela Johnson | Mar 11, 2015 | happiness, musings, personal, Uncategorized
I think most of us come into life this way. Open, free, arms and legs flailing, lungs gulping air and expelling futility. We have no idea of the world until we do. We find it safe or frightening, depending on luck, circumstance, and perhaps fate. I wonder about...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 10, 2015 | community, compassion, lifestyle
How can it be in this land of plenitude, our fellows spilling out now into city streets, smearing pristine glare of glossy retail windows with the crime of their insanity? I walk and talk with open heart, not from a place where vacant stares meet hollow eyes; hear his...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 3, 2015 | lifestyle, musings, nature, popular culture
We are so willing to click in and go for the ride. Neurons firing and off we jettison into yet another collective illusion while the god of Abraham, bless his heart, calls it good. It’s all good. The miracle of bodies in time and space. Damn...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 23, 2015 | community, lifestyle, nature, poetry, transformation, Uncategorized
I began leaving home in the womb, winter-weary parents packing up kids and dreams, fleeing frozen for fallacy ill conceived through jeweled blinders, backs turned stubbornly on a kinder fate. No Valley Girl at heart, I came to rely upon mountains and creatures too...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 17, 2015 | lifestyle, musings, personal, philosophy, Uncategorized
There are a hundred matters one cannot un-do. Frost’s forked path in the midst, and I took the road less traveled. What has it brought me, in the end? What redemption, if not recognizing the fullness of existence to the marrow permeating all life? Spirits lie...
