by Bela Johnson | Mar 12, 2019 | healing, inspiration, lifestyle, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
THE TEACHING Schooled to the rigors of religion, if I took nothing else away from those origins it was faith; faith that a child’s prayers would be answered by forces unseen, and I took root in that faith like fieldstone, anchoring my small body in cracks and...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 5, 2019 | country living, Hawaii, lifestyle, nature, perspective, Uncategorized
Shards of light splinter azure skies piercing grey and white veils hung over days we have grown accustomed to, days drowned in deluges of drenching rain once sent to nourish, now stripping shrubs and flowers of nutrients washed deep asunder; One tree standing...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 25, 2019 | Hawaii, inspiration, nature, poetry, Uncategorized
I ask first the trees, honoring the foliage that shades fragile skin, Will you take root in my heart? I ask the black and gold glittering sands, Will you accept the imprint of my passing? I ask the ocean, placing palms and soles upon shores cooled by your blessing,...
by Bela Johnson | Feb 13, 2019 | consciousness, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Waves lap at my feet as I stare down sunset, myself a fixed object on the shore, bringing to mind reclamation, our oceanic mother calling me back and through time, sloughing off my scales, crawling onto the sand to admire her from another angle; perhaps only this, in...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 29, 2019 | animals, nature, philosophy, photography, Uncategorized
I go down burrowing, a badger unearthing for the sake of it, a sort of mining known only to the creature and sometimes the human heart, the latter less willing to surrender its complexities; On the surface doves appear to assert territoriality, the movement stitched...
