by Bela Johnson | Oct 22, 2025 | food, freedom, healing, lifestyle, Uncategorized
What heals one body may harm another.The raw becomes too cold for the weary stomach,the stillness too rigid for the restless heart. Even meditation can bruise the spiritif what we need is to walk, to breathe,to kneel in the garden’s forgiving dirt. Food is medicine,...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 20, 2025 | earth witness, people, regeneration, relationships, Uncategorized
There are confusing encounters, leaving one gaspingfor breath, the mind grasping for understanding;such is the nature of life and death—the latter being more recent in my world of experience. I eschew addictions, just as they are soughtto resolve what seems...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 19, 2025 | Observations, regeneration
She stands open-mouthedas the bird careens into glass—a soft thud, then feathered dustdrifting in the brittle air. Among the stubble of guinea grass,where cattle have grazed too close to bone,a dove-grey body trembles in shock,as the drought continues, broken onlyby...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 18, 2025 | healing, humor, process, self awareness
How to take a shirt whose pattern I love but whose size is one smaller than thatI have worn for decades now; swimmer’strapezius giving me a wide-set backmeant for moving great waves of water past,my body cruising, seal-like, through surfwhile my spirit...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 16, 2025 | awakening, regeneration
Daily writing promptWhen you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why?View all responses When I think of the word successful, I pause—uncertain what, and to whom that world belongs. It feels imported from...
