by Bela Johnson | Oct 16, 2025 | awakening, earth witness, Observations, regeneration, Uncategorized
Late tonight my body longs for the balm of sleep,the oblivion of dreams—yet awareness flareslike a just-struck match; ideas rumble and roll.I am not beset by worry, but by the bright acheof knowing how brief it all is—this speck in eternitywe call life, the amazing...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 15, 2025 | earth witness, philosophy, poetry, regeneration, Uncategorized
More growth coming, and I breathe deep, knowing why I am here, why you are here, why we so rarely recognize the miracle; We are not in this togetherin the sense of waiting upon othersfor our own self realization; These are not times for preachers or spiritual...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 13, 2025 | nature, philosophy, regeneration, Uncategorized
This morning the wind carriesa music older than memory,older than the borders drawnto divide what was oncesimply Earth, breathing; I walk the garden in silence,feet on too-dry soil, and I pay tributeto the ones who have always knownhow to listen—to rain as ally,to...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 12, 2025 | Field notes, self awareness, Uncategorized, writing, Writing reflection
What have you been putting off doing? Why? Maybe it isn’t procrastination at all, maybe it’s gestation; perhaps I’ve been waiting for the ground inside me to turn soft and loamy; for what once felt like obligation can become devotion again, and this I know; If I have...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 12, 2025 | nature, Observations, regeneration, Uncategorized
The land still listens, though we do not answer.We have learned to speak to the wrong gods—technology, televised evangelists, telecommunication—forgetting the source to which we owe our lives. Our flesh remembers dolphin and tree,remembers the cliffs that yawn above...
