by Bela Johnson | Apr 18, 2013 | healing, inspiration, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
We contain it in consciousness; Remember, so we do not forget, and get on with our lives or risk drowning in despair. Each day pregnant with unknowing, we risk all by walking out the door; mingling with the masses or digging in the soil. Even there, shards of...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 16, 2013 | competition, healing, home, lifestyle, Uncategorized
There is nothing I can say that could possibly convey my feelings of sadness and horror at what happened at the Boston Marathon yesterday. The complexity of emotions, interplaying with thoughts almost too onerous to bear, needs to be worked out first, somehow. It is...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 11, 2013 | inspiration, musings, personal, poetry, Uncategorized, writing
I write. Not because I must, or because I am compelled by some unseen force like the devil nipping at my backside. I used to write to expel emotion, to coax forth whatever poison lingered from the confusion of youth, to purge whatever angst, anger, judgment and...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 9, 2013 | healing, inspiration, musings, personal, poetry, Uncategorized
There are times when the veil is drawn. Days go missing, while retreat seems the only option – Time away from the world to heal; to gather fragments and splinters back to a body weakened with pain and strange imaginings. Many eschew the need...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 4, 2013 | compassion, happiness, inspiration, personal, philosophy, Uncategorized
How long can one exist on just a story? I think some people live out the entirety of their days in the thrall of fabrication. And many don’t realize it until it is too late. I remember My Story. It began in the distant past, and I coughed it up and out like a...
