by Bela Johnson | Oct 29, 2025 | earth witness, embodiment, feminine,, gardening, Uncategorized
And so long as you haven’t experiencedThis: to die and so to grow,You are only a troubled guestOn the dark earth.— Goethe What is our task here, on this living planet? We ask it again and again.We long to serve, to be ready,to meet the unknown challengesset...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 28, 2025 | healing, process, shadow, Uncategorized
Raised inside rooms of too-bright light and strict rules,I learned that obedience was the language of divine love—knees bent, eyes down, a hymn to belonging. In Sunday School, we sang of angels while clippingour own wings, polishing the gleaming floor with our...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 26, 2025 | art, poetry, regeneration, Uncategorized
In self-created confinement I dwell,waves of consciousness crashingonto undisclosed shorelines,thundering hooves of phantom horsesapproaching through the sands of time. Some might shudder at these contemplativespaces — interstices of timebefore necessary activities...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 24, 2025 | belonging, creativity, motherhood, Uncategorized, writing
“Peace does not mean to be in a placewhere there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.It means to be in the midst of those thingsand still be calm in your heart.”— Anonymous Wisdom, it turns out,can live on a refrigerator magnet.I needed these words —after a month...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 22, 2025 | collective history, nuclear bomb, process, truth revealed, Uncategorized
Daily writing promptWhat major historical events do you remember?View all responses We were children of the fifties,taught to duck and cover—curl small beneath the desksas if our little spines and folded handsbehind heads could shield usfrom the power of the sun. I...
