by Bela Johnson | Apr 17, 2020 | growing up, healing, Uncategorized
Going back into my journals for the first time in years, I discover it’s interesting to note how clearly I perceive things now, compared to 15 years ago. For all those sheltering in isolation with others they are not quite used to being with 24/7, perhaps these...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 5, 2020 | community, consciousness, nature, peace, philosophy, Uncategorized
I write, and I start; write and I stop; what can be said in these times? Only that what many consider real out there is simply not my reality. Yet how to explain this so that people don’t feel as though I am being careless or crass? The fact is, I care so much...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 27, 2020 | inspiration, nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
I have chosen to come here to this place, bleak and dry and windblown after the harshness of winter; the land has been in isolation too, as it perpetually will uncomplainingly, year following year, why do we humans resist it so? The is-ness of life is a thing we have...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 4, 2020 | nature, philosophy, self awareness, Uncategorized
A light shaft slices down the lane through the truffled cover of night, bouncing heaven-first to shoulders, traveling the length of my spine to the tips of chilled fingers, then perceived again clearly through another’s warmed skin, like holding a...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 25, 2020 | gardening, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
I had to look twice, glancing out the kitchen window as the flutter of a mynah bird’s jet black wings jogged my vision into memory, the giant frond of a Queen Emma lily flung carelessly by a kicking wind, bent not broken into a shape resembling the appendage of...
