by Bela Johnson | Jun 6, 2023 | gardening, lifestyle, nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
As stars wink conspiratorially, I wonder once againwhat my purpose is in this realm if not to love and beloved, which we are and always will be by the very factthat we draw breath, and yet those I have loved the mostare on their own trajectories, nothing on earth is...
by Bela Johnson | May 7, 2023 | desert life, lifestyle, nature, rivers, Uncategorized
Adrift in the flow of it all, I barely knowwhen night turns her face to the sunthese days, so many springtime pursuits,and there are streams that beckon, flowingwildly as long as snowmelt from higheraltitudes drives water down the BorrachaCanyon into the settlement of...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 26, 2023 | human interest, personal, perspective, psychology, suicide, Uncategorized
Maybe what he had inside was genius,little freckled boy face, eyes looking outat a world that was senseless at times,the hero father filled with his own demons,no time to self regulate nor a modelto follow, as all boys need, as we all do,and anger, fear and...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 19, 2023 | high desert, lifestyle, nature, New Mexico, perspective, Uncategorized
Here in the mountains night creatures roam, day has notyet stretched rays of sunlight over the land, birds are stilltucked tightly into tree branches, tiny beaks buried in fluffybreast down, eyes closed as they breathe in rhythmstoo subtle to notice, dreaming dreams...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 14, 2023 | awakening, dreaming, healing, inspiration, nature, Uncategorized
Reduced now to ashes, I rise from the fires of transformationagain and again, and it gets wearying sometimes, all this deathand resurrection, so many incarnations within one lifetime,and occasionally I struggle with perceptions of others,the young simply trying to...
