by Bela Johnson | Mar 2, 2023 | daily_prompt, musings, postaday, Uncategorized
If I Could If I could be someone else for a day,what a silly little thing to say; the onlything useful in doing this would beI could be you, and you could be me,eliminating language (as sad as that is),yet to feel behind words might providea slight fizz, as insights...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 1, 2023 | gardening, high desert, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
As I watched and wept, my beautiful roses,planted deep and well in this nutrient-deficient soil, desert dirt; raised bedscreated by the former owner, filled witha mixture of native turf and whatever he could find, and I added dozens of bags of topsoiltilled in by...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 22, 2023 | lifestyle, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
Are we doomed to be buried in mounds of trashwe can no longer recycle, a child’s entire plasticnursery, dumped into the rolloff on an islandleast able to cope with more landfill, parentslikely overwhelmed with the stress of parenting,too tired or zoned to...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 16, 2023 | musings, perspective, philosophy, self awareness, truth, Uncategorized
The white hot truth is no truth at all,save the passionate conviction that a thingis real to one, and little can convincea person of its opposite, though mindsare opening all around me these days,lovely multicolored parachutes waftingdown out of the ethers like the...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 10, 2023 | animals, community, compassion, culture, lifestyle, Uncategorized
Supply and demand might be the lawof consumerism which has propped upa dubious economy for decades,but when it comes to believing it isthe only way through the veils of fearand lack hanging over too manythese days, perhaps we ought to consider; Maybe it is time to...
