by Bela Johnson | Dec 21, 2011 | animals, nature, Uncategorized
Inexplicable, this love affair I have with Raven. My father hated the bird – stealer of eggs, killers of fledglings. It was in fact his disdain for these predators, combined with a protective reflex for their prey, that may have endowed the man with respect for...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 20, 2011 | animals, nature, Uncategorized
One crisp fall morning about a dozen years ago, I spotted an adult female moose some hundred feet from the house. Steaming cup of tea in hand, I scuffled into house slippers and stepped outside to have a closer look. Though we lived in the Maine woods, a moose...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 7, 2011 | compassion, friends, philosophy, psychology
I am a lover of history when it comes to people, a determined sustainer of relationships. I look forward to nurturing and maintaining these dear connections. I love the lines in your face, the liquid sparkle in your eyes when you smile. I love that you do not shift...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 28, 2011 | inspiration, psychology
Short and stodgy with badly bowed legs, the old Filipino woman on the sidewalk smiles up and into the liquid black eyes of a tawny-faced man and his pale companion. A half turn and a step back is all it takes as, smiling broadly, he cranks open the heavy door. The...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 21, 2011 | healing, philosophy
I have never kept a diary, but if I did, it would be to its pages I would commit the seeming banality of the day-to-day, the little goings-on, meanderings of the mind – those projections, deductions, reflections. Yet one of the most engaging forms of prose I am...
