by Bela Johnson | Aug 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
My quiet mornings beside the Pacific don’t mean the world is at peace. It means peace is occurring within me, if even just within my own mind’s eye, even in moments such as these. The calm before the storm. In the midst of a hurricane, my body cannot discover...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
Aloha folks: Hawaii Island has been hit badly by hurricane Lala, a category one hurricane that swept over the big island of Hawaii where we live. Earthquakes and volcanoes are nothing compared to this thing! Our community experienced the highest winds at 91 miles an...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
I am, in stillness, walking in the quiet of early morning. So it is that I am necessarily startled by the hacking of overhead blades,ferrying people across the miles that I find myself,one step at a time,exploring. The din and chop slice through silence,no less...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
I am, in stillness, walking in the quiet of early morning. So it is that I am necessarily startled by the hacking of overhead blades,ferrying people across the miles that I find myself,one step at a time,exploring. The din and chop slice through silence,no less...
by Bela Johnson | Aug 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
What do we need from landscapes?For surely the landscapes do not need us. Rather, we seek them out. What does one derive from the woods of New England,as opposed to the stark, spare deserts of the Southwest? What of the warm, full-bodied breathof land and sea in the...
