by Bela Johnson | Nov 3, 2011 | love, psychology
If I wanted right now I could ask. And you would, no excuses. If I wanted. If I asked, you would drop the tool from your hands, help me gather debris hacked from our jungle yard – not complaining. It is not that you lack direction, far from it. Not that your life is...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 3, 2011 | psychology
I often walked home from elementary school with a clutch of companions. Close to the block before mine lived a full-lipped girl with steel blue eyes. Eyes like her mother’s. She had a hidden beauty even as a child, coupled with a bold personality which...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 26, 2011 | Hawaii, inspiration, nature
Evening steals across the sky with the subtlety of dispersing silvery tails of jet liners; like ink seeping into a desk blotter. It is fall here in North Kohala, and our winter is fast approaching. Night falls quickly as if caught off guard, the sun dropping into the...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 20, 2011 | healing, love, psychology
You can’t give what you don’t have. It seems obvious to her now, but it didn’t forty years ago. Forty years ago, she fell for a man who was emotionally and, at the time physically, unavailable. Young and a bit naïve, she was desperately and profoundly in love. The...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 25, 2011 | inspiration, nature, Uncategorized
I can smell the sunrise, all pink and blue grey, streaking across a crystalline sky. Unlike the mainland part of the country, we who live on Hawaii island are experiencing a blessed summer cycling of spring rains, cool nights and brilliantly clear, warm days. Usually...
