by Bela Johnson | Dec 26, 2012 | friends, lifestyle, love, poetry, Uncategorized
Bitter the leafand love,its flower.
by Bela Johnson | Dec 21, 2012 | compassion, healing, personal, philosophy, random thoughts, Uncategorized
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going – No feeling is final. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke I find it harder and harder to be critical and sarcastic these days. Tongue in cheek, I used to label this aspect of personality my inner cynic, but I knew...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 12, 2012 | nature, philosophy, science, spirituality, Uncategorized
I used to believe in portals, back in my New Age days. But I was getting too far ‘out there,’ needing instead to be more present to everyday life here on this fabulous earth. It was crucial that I began trusting my body as an instrument that could inform me in this...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 11, 2012 | love, random thoughts, Uncategorized, words, writing
I love the English language. Every once in awhile, a word will spill out of my mouth that I haven’t used or even thought of in a very long time. I then feel compelled to play with it. I know in writing groups, for example, there are ‘prompts’...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 5, 2012 | healing, love, poetry, Uncategorized
Passion splits skin like an overripe melon straining its boundaries – Daring to go beyond convention, what’s safe. Comfort assumes new meaning, reaches deeper – until again, it stretches. And what once exhausted now sets the tone for beginning anew....
