by Bela Johnson | Apr 22, 2019 | climate change, Earth Day, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
There are snapshots in time, places where one feels the eyes scratching over the surface of some offensive scene, cymbals clashing inappropriately during a tender interlude, spell dissolved in the cacophony, never to return again free of that memory; Then there are...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 9, 2019 | compassion, creativity, gardening, healing, nature, Uncategorized
The crescent mark left by a garden knife is slowly mending, unresisting as I cleave yet another lifted layer of my own skin from its center until a proper feeling of softness returns to adjacent banks of that once-jagged riverbed; Like one’s own feelings...
by Bela Johnson | Apr 4, 2019 | gardening, Hawaii, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, Uncategorized
There is green, and then there is the delicate curled chartreuse ribs of a fern frond as sunlight trips fantastic through the rhythm and hum of a late afternoon, busiest time of day for folding in fragments of lost time in preparation for the long shadows of impending...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 27, 2019 | Hawaii, inspiration, musings, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
When the silver spool of dawn unravels in languorous wisps, as clouds unfurl low and wide in the overhead sky, my gaze sweeps broadly and what I behold is the artist’s palette come to life, a masterpiece with every dawning and dusky day while the earth spins...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 19, 2019 | Hawaii, inspiration, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
My Instagram post this morning quoted Mary Oliver, “My work is loving the world.” Despite what the day brings, and sometimes it seems overwhelming, could there be anything more meaningful? When the floor slips out from under my feet and I fall like Alice...
