by Bela Johnson | Oct 10, 2025 | animals, Maine, nature, New Mexico, silence, Uncategorized, wildlife
I lived four years in the high desert mountainsof New Mexico, the ranch house ringedby variegated greens of piñon pine,cedar and Ponderosa, and beyond the forestlay fields of sage, their silver-gray shimmerunbroken but for wind, the dark shadowsof ravens, and the...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 8, 2025 | animals, compassion, nature, Observations, relationships, Uncategorized
I could write about the tiny Arabian horse, her pale matted coat grown to maximum for the winter, nature knowing what her children need toward the end of life – once luster and beauty as only youth can confer – later, stripped back to essentials, hip bones...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 6, 2025 | gardening, nature, relationships, self awareness, transformation, Uncategorized
It’s new, it’s not, the bones remember, though I forgot;another year collapsing into itself like a wavethat folds and folds until the ocean swallows sound; Was I kind enough? Did I hold the ones I lovewithout trying to fix their pain? Or did I burn too...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 3, 2025 | awakening, inspiration, philosophy, self awareness, Uncategorized
If I am never to return to a form once embraced, rejected,explored – I am going to have to live life on purpose,awaken my potential, neither denying the darknessnor the light, but rather growing, albeit too slowly,into something I Am – something authentic...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 30, 2025 | equality, freedom, inspiration, truth, Uncategorized
Why can we not simply live these dayswithout concern for what new regimewill dictate archaic mandates,as if we had slipped back into the 19th century,when women bent under expectationsand had yet to rise in collective struggle—for civil rights, equal rights, the...
