by Bela Johnson | Dec 28, 2023 | communication, healing, musings, nature, Uncategorized
Not a desirable trait, stubbornness,lack of desire to open the mind,accept another’s viewpoint, insteadwanting to preserve whatever narrow-minded perception one has in the moment,rigid not like the tree which sways gentlyin the breeze, rather like a...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 4, 2023 | consciousness, lifestyle, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
The shimmering of a rising dawn spreads outand over the fields in this snowy mountain valley,and as the light of day emerges anew, I step downand out of bed, finding my feet; there’s a flightof stairs I must descend, and to remainin that foggy post-dream world...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 24, 2023 | Hawaii, high desert, lifestyle, musings, perspective, Uncategorized
We’ve been flung out over water like skipping stones,not on a lake or pond, but the long, wide, never endingturquoise blue ocean of the Pacific, soaring in a metaltube while everything that followed us arrived by bargeas these things do, back and forth to the...
by Bela Johnson | Oct 3, 2023 | animals, lifestyle, nature, ranch life, Uncategorized, wildlife
Thunk! As the piñon jay hit the window;I heard it from the greenhouse not far away,and as I looked, albeit with a bit of trepidation,I saw the creature from behind, dazed of course,trying to get her bearings, and in two beatsof a heart, she toppled to her side; Now I...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 13, 2023 | climate change, lifestyle, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
The hot nights we loved, twisted in sweat and cotton sheets,all the time longing for what we have now, cool breezes,sleeping temperatures below 85 degrees, then just likethat, fall will jacknife into winter, and instead of agonizingin temperatures that seem to stretch...
