by Bela Johnson | Jul 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
This world, as itself,unfolds quietly,often imperceptibly. Nothing requires attention,and yet we might learn muchby slowing our cadencebeneath the noise and din. Tending ourselves helps heal our world.It isn’t only repairing what’s broken.It is also allowing new...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
It steadies my nerves.Walking out into morning light.The Earth is solid, the ground reliable.Nothing is forced.Nature is not trying to impress. She simply does,showering desert roadsideswith sunflowers,carpeting grasses in city parkswith drifting pinks and whitesof...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Every weekday morning, I walk to the wallbuilt as a railroad crossing. I am no expert at measurements,but it stands perhaps sixty feet tall. Stone by stone,placed on this rocky ocean outcropping. And every morning for days now,the rainbow appearsas if rising from the...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Watching pigeons slip in and outof tiny holes in the lava wall,railroad trestle built during sugarcane days,now a footpath. I wonder what keeps them here,a place of returning, again and again,like the homing pigeons I raisedas a kid. What do they find to eatin this...
by Bela Johnson | Jul 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
Off in the distance,at the horizon,the south side of Maui islandlooms in the late afternoon haze. A rainbow layers itself there,as though it had wings. Suddenly I better understandthe ancient imaginingof angels. Nearer our own Kohala shoreline,a large chunk of lava...
