by Bela Johnson | Nov 4, 2025 | cosmos, earth witness, nature, regeneration
Daily writing promptInvent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.View all responses Since holiday’s etymological origin stems from holy day,shouldn’t every morning we wake to the miracle of life—on a planet able to sustain our...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 3, 2025 | night sky, Uncategorized
We step outside just before dawn,the air cool enough to taste the recentand generous winter rains.Billions of stars scatter across inky black,so many I imagine themas a silver faerie mantledraped lightly over the flowing crown of Mother Earth. I name a few—ones...
by Bela Johnson | Nov 1, 2025 | healing, poetry, process, Uncategorized
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live? If I Could Re-Live a Year At first, the question seems silly.Why would anyone want to go back, when life has already pressed us forward through so much change, so much learning, so many quiet awakenings? Still,...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 31, 2025 | poetry, process, shadow process, Uncategorized
Do they ever get any smarter with age?That ass-grabbing Buddhist who was surehis teacher was The One, only to discoverhe, too, was an ass-grabber. Oh, sigh. He chanted om mani padme humwhile his gaze wandered,as if enlightenment were hidingbeneath some...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 30, 2025 | communication, mindfulness, reflection, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptWhat’s something you believe everyone should know.View all responses What everyone should know is not a list of facts,but a way of being with the unknown;that questions are not enemies of truth,they are invitations. That thinking is not the...
