by Bela Johnson | Jan 24, 2018 | love, nature, philosophy, Uncategorized
Passion peaks and wanes, conflagrations cannot burn forever, yet if tempered and fed, a gentle glow is maintained, steady heat, protracted afterglow; If we could always remember this moment now, just as we are, tensions resolved in baptismal sweetness, life would be a...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 14, 2018 | Hawaii, musings, perspective, Uncategorized
Yesterday we had a shakedown for residents of Hawaii. A false alarm popped up on cellphones warning us of an imminent ballistic missile attack. I didn’t have my warnings enabled, but my husband showed me his phone. Our reactions were much the same. Well, what are we...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 9, 2018 | love, nature, perspective, poetry, Uncategorized
Vistas of the inner mind expand before me, always visibly rich, effervescent with possibilities. Some appear through a thin mist while others focus cleanly into view like adjusting the diopter on my camera. Love makes allowances for horizons. Now. When younger...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 3, 2018 | nature, perspective, philosophy, Uncategorized
The headaches come and she weeps alone; afraid or is it ashamed to let anyone know the hurt inside, the eye-popping terror of a heart in chains, distress kept private in a world that yearns for performance art; I myself get them rarely, though I am familiar with pain,...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 28, 2017 | friends, nature, people, Uncategorized
She’s been dead a couple of years, my soul mate. Lots of people’s soul mate. That was her gift. She belonged to everybody and nobody at all. She was very much her own woman or the Goddess’ woman or at least a powerful woman; no less nor more than I, myself; but still....
