by Bela Johnson | Feb 20, 2020 | country living, gardening, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
Winds kick and gust, twisting limbs and shaking foliage and branches loose, culling the dead and startling the living into a wakefulness that strengthens, even as surely they flinch at the onslaught; Large foot-long seed pods drop to the ground in varying shades of...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 12, 2020 | consciousness, nature, peace, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
Will we be part of the madness, or will we join in a vision of a better world? How many times has this thought occurred to you in the past few decades? Yet now more than ever, the question becomes crucial. My friend Sue Dreamwalker recommended a series of...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 29, 2020 | animals, growing up, nature, personal, perspective, Uncategorized
The ocean pulls up, pulls away, hisses, leaving tiny air holes in the sand; I am fourteen, in love with creation, full of life and dreaming possibilities; Still on the beach I lie, slim belly pressed down against earth’s beating heart, looking not at the tossing...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 22, 2020 | nature, perspective, spirituality, Uncategorized
Cracking through his crusty skin, the butterflies await therein; In trembling light, antennae perched in front, ahead, and primed to lurch; The quavered sense that life’s amiss somehow obscures the hours of bliss; the chores and drudge originate, perspective...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 15, 2020 | country living, lifestyle, nature, spirituality, Uncategorized
Last Monday we closed on the lovely property pictured here. We are now in a position of having secured the ground for our future whilst awaiting the selling of the home we have lovingly restored from old Plantation times to its present incarnation. It’s been so...
