by Bela Johnson | Mar 22, 2012 | compassion, happiness, healing, inspiration, philosophy, Uncategorized
I have got to wrap my mind around this thing called happiness. The Tibetans say that every human being wants first to be happy. I find this oddly strange. For doesn’t that desire arise simply in comparison to the option of suffering? It’s not that I don’t feel...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 14, 2012 | animals, friends, nature, Uncategorized, writing
I have been blessed to have several caring souls nominate me for various awards or keep me on their Blogrolls over the past year I’ve been part of this fabulous WordPress community. Have a Dream. morristownmemos. Partial View. All Write. So Far From Heaven. Vikram...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 13, 2012 | community, inspiration, philosophy, Uncategorized, writing
Writers write, preaches teacher Larry Donner (portrayed by comedian Billy Crystal) in Throw Momma From the Train. Most of us do, in one way or another. I set aside every Tuesday and Wednesday to hammer out blog posts, though if I felt inspired on a Sunday, Monday or...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 8, 2012 | Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
Different, these seasonal shifts here in Hawaii. It has been the coldest winter that we have experienced in nearly a decade of living on the islands. Yet unbelievably to most mainlanders, spring is here. Birds are mating, horses are shedding and the wind’s...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 6, 2012 | culture, Hawaii, healing, inspiration, nature, Uncategorized
And so it begins. Shafts of light steal through dawn’s dark mantle, pierced first and only by birdsong. Slate grey skies erupt overhead onto a landscape perpetually in need of their offering. Through stillness, the distant drone of a two-lane highway portends the...
