by Bela Johnson | Apr 3, 2018 | compassion, forgiveness, healing, Uncategorized
It’s a scurrilous affair to be the target of an assault upon our humanity. Judgments, condemnation and criticisms all aim to reduce our opinions of ourselves, and are often successful in altering how others view us as well. We may well learn best through adversity,...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 30, 2018 | Hawaii, nature, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
When I moved to the Hawaiian islands over twenty-five years ago, I shouldered a bit of cynicism and not a little buried anger. Living in a land of volcanoes was illuminating. Time and again, my feet were held to madame Pele’s fire. Time and again, I tried to...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 26, 2018 | lifestyle, mindfulness, nature, perspective, popular culture, Uncategorized
I once knew a woman who kept her world on the shortest leash imaginable. This overstuffed orb consisted of all she felt she could control and nothing she could not. It must have been mind bending trying to keep all the plates spinning in the air, for if one crashed to...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 20, 2018 | philosophy, random thoughts, Uncategorized
Communication is composition, ideally orchestrated if fortuitous enough to grasp one another by our carefully chosen words; Yet too often in bright headlamps of passing thought trains, we stand transfixed, unable to move forward or back, confused and confounded,...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 13, 2018 | musings, perspective, Uncategorized
The body comes last as she bounds into chaos, the day, to work on no breakfast for starters, watching her weight as is the call of her generation, Twiggy-thin or else considered fat, little choice in the matter but to subsume any physical appetites which, by the way,...
