by Bela Johnson | May 15, 2013 | inspiration, lifestyle, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
Whence cometh the longing? That yearning for home, for Other? Where is home if not within? We travel eternities through life, death, time and space … Perhaps each realm confers its own forgetfulness; maybe this is the bargain we make so we don’t jump ship....
by Bela Johnson | May 8, 2013 | family, personal, poetry, relationships, Uncategorized
She doesn’t want to let me go – it’s in the blood. Like cells, we divide, move apart; couple up with others, and revel in the familiar of an original template: family. Our mother is leaving us, hysterical now with dementia. It’s fun to watch her laugh, as we...
by Bela Johnson | May 3, 2013 | philosophy, psychology, relationships, Uncategorized
From Wikipedia: the Jungian shadow often refers to all that lies outside the light of consciousness, and may be positive or negative. “Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 25, 2013 | musings, nature, personal, philosophy, poetry, Uncategorized
I loathe cold coffee, though I find cool tea palatable. Beyond explanation, only one derives from Latin America, the other from the Orient. Perhaps entwined in the hairlike strands of my DNA lurks an obscure memory of peasants whirling; bright colors arcing...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 23, 2013 | inspiration, philosophy, popular culture, science, Uncategorized
In 1969, I was a high school freshman. Middle school had bussed me from a known quantity – a neighborhood in which I thrived with friends I’d known since kindergarten – into flights of stairs and home rooms and tennis courts and football fields and oh, so...
